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    Engagement of the Ethiopian Army in Civil Disturbances to Restore Law and Order: Implications for Human Security
    (Addis Ababa University, 2022-12) Abraham Gelaw; Yonas Adaye (Ph.D.)
    This thesis examines whether the military is protecting Human Security during intervention to calm down civil disturbances or not. While permitting the military to be deployed during a civil disturbance, the FDRE constitution (1995) and the FDRE foreign affairs and security policy and strategy (2002) are primarily focused on state security; nonetheless, such a deployment should also focus on human security, as the military is one organ in the realization of Human Security. By disregarding Human Security, which is a fundamental issue that requires a solution, Ethiopian law, policy, and practice regarding military deployment during a civil disturbance demonstrate their preoccupation for state security. Based on this problem, the thesis explores how Human Security considerations guide military intervention during civil disturbances and the corresponding reasons for the failures of the Ethiopian Army in discharging its Human Security protection obligations stated under the constitution, with identification of the roles of the Army and the legal, policy and practical problems of the same. After identifying the problem and setting the objective, qualitative research methodology with mainly exploratory design is employed to investigate and give in-depth analysis of the problem. The study is significant in showing the gap both in the literature and empirical aspects, where as a pioneer study, it can inspire researchers to do further study on problems related but uncovered in this study and awaken political and military decision makers on the problems attached with Human Security and military intervention during civil disturbances. The findings of the study corroborated that the military is not protecting Human Security during civil disturbance intervention operations and mostly focus on state security. The study concludes; the complementarity of state security and Human Security is underlined. But, Self-contradicting constitutional rules, other pertinent legal documents and the country‟s State Security policy focus along with the military‟s unawareness on Human Security issues and Economic, social, and institutional challenges dragging the military from protecting Human Security are the core problems.