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dc.contributor.authorMokgopo, Tshehledi Isaac
dc.date.accessioned2020-01-16T13:19:44Z
dc.date.accessioned2020-01-23T09:21:58Z
dc.date.available2020-01-16T13:19:44Z
dc.date.available2020-01-23T09:21:58Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier.citationMokgopo, T.I. 2019. Challenges arising from ethnic internal boundary determination in Ethiopia since 1991. New Contree : A journal of Historical and Human Sciences for Southern Africa. 82:36-63, Jul. [http://dspace.nwu.ac.za/handle/10394/4969]en_US
dc.identifier.issn0379-9867
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.nwu.ac.za/handle/10394/33938
dc.description.abstractLike any other African country, Ethiopia has different ethnic groups with different languages. The Federal Constitution of Ethiopia guarantees all its ethnic groups including ethnic minority the right to self-determination. The constitution has also acknowledged the existence of different ethnic minorities at the regional level. The majority of these regions have also designed the institutions of local government as the primary mechanism of protecting sub-national ethnic minorities. In this article the deduction can be made that though ethnic minority status is guaranteed in the constitution there are still ethnic tensions in the country resulting from the use of ethnicity in determining internal boundaries in Ethiopia. Furthermore, it finds that Ethiopia is sitting on an ethnic time bomb and it must come up with a possible solution. This therefore left open the questions of whether ethnicity is a panacea for curbing ethnic tension and conflict when determining and demarcating municipal boundaries. In answering this question reference is made to Ethiopia where both regional and internal (local government) boundaries were demarcated using ethnicity as a factor. The discussion to follow analyse ethnicity in demarcating boundaries. It also highlights the challenges of demarcating boundaries using ethnicity.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSchool for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West Universityen_US
dc.subjectEthiopiaen_US
dc.subjectEthnicityen_US
dc.subjectBoundariesen_US
dc.subjectMinorityen_US
dc.subjectLocal governmenten_US
dc.subjectRegional integrationen_US
dc.titleChallenges arising from ethnic internal boundary determination in Ethiopia since 1991en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US


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