Browsing by Author "Yonas Adaye (Ph.D.)"

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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.
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    Public Trust in Judicial System of Ethiopia and Its Implications for Peacebuilding: The Case of Federal Supreme Court
    (Addis Ababa Unversity, 2019-06) Alem Tufa; Yonas Adaye (Ph.D.)
    One of the major goals of the judiciary is to resolve disputes in ways that lead disputant to accept and be willing to abide by the decisions, restore a former relationship and help to keep domestic peace .If judiciaries are not accepted by the citizens and if there is a lack of trust cannot perform their essential functions, restore a relationship and it became difficult to build peace in the society. Hence the research aimed to examine the public trust based on the procedural fairness in the federal Supreme Court and its implication for peacebuilding, by identifying major issues which affect public trust in the FDRE Supreme Court and discuss public trust implication to peacebuilding. In the study, mixed methods of research design were engaged. Data were collected through interviews from key Informants and through questioner filled by experienced court users, the finding of the study shows that the public has the higher perception lack of judicial independence; lack of behavioral accountability, transparency and accessibility these leads the court users to a high level of distrust. The level of public trust has positive and negative implication to peacebuilding, if the public has trusted to judiciary system cooperate with the court, respect, obey with bench commands and verdicts, easily accept even negative outcomes so it restores former relationship of disputant but if the public lose trust by the judiciary system disputant parties they cannot accept the outcomes so they go to take Measure by their own hand so it affect their personal relationship and easily escalate conflict through community so the court must train the judges to how the procedural fairness affect public trust because fair procedures, with the equal possibility for all parties to discuss real issues with the judiciary, have an imperative to influence public trust more than rigidly consistent verdict practices for the peacebuilding process to take place the approach should be based on building a trustable judicial system, this helps to build positive relationships and social structures that allow the face of different social thinking and encouraging positive group unity.