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Belay Asmare Aragaw

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ID6598747
NAMEBelay Asmare Aragaw
GIVEN NAMESBelay Asmare
FAMILY NAMEAragaw
SIGNATUREARAGAW B A
AFFILIATIONSWoldia University
ORCID0009-0002-4203-6573
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS4
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT4
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0
  • Clinging to power: Reasons, strategies, and their role as prime factors of political instability in post-1991 Ethiopia

    Belay Asmare Aragaw•ARTICLE•Social Identities•2026

    Several scholars consider historical injustices, politicization of ethnicity, political exclusion, inequality, corruption, and weak institutions to be reasons for the recurrent political instability in post-1991 Ethiopia. However, this study argues that clinging to power is the primary source of political instability and possibly a contributing factor to other causes of instability, yet it has received less attention in scholarly debates in post-…

  • Targeting the unarmed: Why Tigrian armed groups committed violence against civilian Amharas during the war in northern Ethiopia

    Open Access•Belay Asmare Aragaw, Kefelegn Tesfaye•ARTICLE•Social Sciences & Humanities Open•2025

    Targeting civilians is increasingly common in both interstate and intrastate armed conflicts. While there is extensive literature explaining why armed groups in civil conflicts target civilians-often those they may need for future support-this dynamic remains underexplored in the context of the Northern Ethiopian war of post-2018. Despite various studies detailing the harm inflicted by TPLF armed groups on the Amhara people, the motivations behin…

  • Challenges to National Unity in Ethiopia: An in-depth analysis from post-1991 to post-2018

    Open Access•Belay Asmare Aragaw•ARTICLE•Cogent Social Sciences•2024

    Ethiopia faces challenges in bringing diverse ethnic, cultural, and sociopolitical groups together to maintain its national unity. Thus, the study aims to identify major challenges in Ethiopia’s national unity from post-1991 to post-2018 and analyze if it is experiencing continuous attrition in post-2018.To do so, the research performed a qualitative inquiry that included both primary and secondary data. The study identifies ethnic federalism, et…

  • Conflict resolution from below: The case of local peace committees in North Wollo Zone, Amhara Region, Ethiopia

    Belay Asmare Aragaw•ARTICLE•African Security Review•2024•References: 6

    The objective of this study is to examine the processes, methods of conflict resolution, and methods of offender-community re-integration used by the local peace committees (LPCs). To achieve these objectives, the study used a qualitative research approach with the help of interviews, focus group discussions (FGDs), and document reviews to collect data in the study area. The study revealed that the LPCs follow a series of conflict resolution proc…

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  • Challenges to National Unity in Ethiopia: An in-depth analysis from post-1991 to post-2018

    Open Access•Belay Asmare Aragaw•ARTICLE•Cogent Social Sciences•2024

    Ethiopia faces challenges in bringing diverse ethnic, cultural, and sociopolitical groups together to maintain its national unity. Thus, the study aims to identify major challenges in Ethiopia’s national unity from post-1991 to post-2018 and analyze if it is experiencing continuous attrition in post-2018.To do so, the research performed a qualitative inquiry that included both primary and secondary data. The study identifies ethnic federalism, et…

  • Conflict resolution from below: The case of local peace committees in North Wollo Zone, Amhara Region, Ethiopia

    Belay Asmare Aragaw•ARTICLE•African Security Review•2024•References: 6

    The objective of this study is to examine the processes, methods of conflict resolution, and methods of offender-community re-integration used by the local peace committees (LPCs). To achieve these objectives, the study used a qualitative research approach with the help of interviews, focus group discussions (FGDs), and document reviews to collect data in the study area. The study revealed that the LPCs follow a series of conflict resolution proc…

  • Targeting the unarmed: Why Tigrian armed groups committed violence against civilian Amharas during the war in northern Ethiopia

    Open Access•Belay Asmare Aragaw, Kefelegn Tesfaye•ARTICLE•Social Sciences & Humanities Open•2025

    Targeting civilians is increasingly common in both interstate and intrastate armed conflicts. While there is extensive literature explaining why armed groups in civil conflicts target civilians-often those they may need for future support-this dynamic remains underexplored in the context of the Northern Ethiopian war of post-2018. Despite various studies detailing the harm inflicted by TPLF armed groups on the Amhara people, the motivations behin…

  • Clinging to power: Reasons, strategies, and their role as prime factors of political instability in post-1991 Ethiopia

    Belay Asmare Aragaw•ARTICLE•Social Identities•2026

    Several scholars consider historical injustices, politicization of ethnicity, political exclusion, inequality, corruption, and weak institutions to be reasons for the recurrent political instability in post-1991 Ethiopia. However, this study argues that clinging to power is the primary source of political instability and possibly a contributing factor to other causes of instability, yet it has received less attention in scholarly debates in post-…

African history and culture analysis (4 works) · Political Conflict and Governance (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Law (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (1 works) · Balkans: History, Politics, Society (1 works) · Computer Science (1 works) · Conflict analysis (1 works)

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