Alagaw Ababu Kifle

Biographic Data

ID388559
NAMEAlagaw Ababu Kifle
GIVEN NAMESAlagaw Ababu
FAMILY NAMEKifle
SIGNATUREKIFLE A A
AFFILIATIONSAfrican Leadership Centre, King’s College London, London, UK
ORCID0000-0003-1060-8629
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS7
WORKS AS AUTHOR5
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • The Relevance of Traditional Mechanisms of Conflict Resolution to End Localized Communal Conflicts in Africa

    Open AccessAlagaw Ababu Kifle, Kindeye Fenta MekonnenARTICLEJournal of Asian and African…2025References: 34

    Though the 'local turn' in peacebuilding increased interest in traditional methods of conflict resolution, a comparative assessment of the effectiveness of these methods vis-à-vis hybrid and modern approaches is only just emerging. This paper adds to this nascent body of research by analyzing the trends in the applications and effectiveness of different communal conflict resolution approaches to end localized conflict in Africa. The paper found o…

  • Leadership and the Comparative Origin of Pro-developmental Ruling Coalitions in Ethiopia and Rwanda

    Open AccessAlagaw Ababu KifleARTICLELeadership & Developing Societies2022

    What does it take to forge a pro-developmental ruling coalition in Africa? This paper answers this question based on a comparative study of the origin of pro-developmental ruling coalitions in Rwanda under Kagame and Ethiopia under Meles. The paper approaches the emergence of pro-developmental ruling coalitions as a collective action problem. It argues that overcoming the two collective action problems of limiting powerful actors` resort to viole…

  • Introduction

    Open AccessFunmi Olonisakin, Alagaw Ababu Kifle et al.ARTICLEConflict Security and Development2021References: 5

    This paper introduces the Special Issue that grew out of a research project at the African Leadership Centre, which was supported by the Canadian International Centre for Development Research (IDRC). Like the underpinning research, the papers in this volume engage with two aspects of the state-building and peace-building debate and foreground the theory of “conversation” as a useful lens through which to advance the pursuit of sustainable peace i…

  • Evolving state building conversations and political settlement in Ethiopia

    Open AccessMedhane Tadesse, Alagaw Ababu Kifle et al.ARTICLEConflict Security and Development2021Cited by: 3References: 18

    This paper examines the evolving state-building conversations in Ethiopia and the role of political settlement thereof in charting a pathway for durable peace and strong state. The paper argues that costly mistakes in state and nation building, the radicalisation of the Ethiopian Student Movement coupled with Marxism–Leninism and ethno-nationalism polarised and fragmented the state-building conversations of the country leading to civil war in the…

  • Shifting ideas of sustainable peace towardsconversationin state-building

    Funmi Olonisakin, Alagaw Ababu Kifle et al.ARTICLEConflict Security and Development2021Cited by: 4References: 49

    This article offers reflections on the meaning of peace and peace-building in Africa and proposes a reframing of the state-building problematic. It argues for a shift in analytical lens by providing alternative ways of looking at state-building in order to explore a different approach to peace-building. Thus, the paper re-centres the notion of conversation in the processes of building peace and state. This concept of conversation requires a shift…