Ethnic Federalism and Conflict Management Ethiopia: The Case of Benishangul-Gumuz Reginal State, Metekel Mandura Woreda
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2021-08
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
Ethnic federalism allows the political authority of local governments to manage ethnic issues in
their respective region of the country. In this autonomy, the power of local administration is
given to the local people or local institutions to manage ethnic-related conflicts at the local level
of society. Following this most people study that ethnic federalism is a source of ethnic conflict
as an ineffective state structure to manage ethnic conflict in Ethiopia. This study is examining the
institutional function in conflict management at the local level of administration. The main
objective of the study is to determine factors that affect local administration in conflict
management in Metekel Mandura woreda. Methodologically, the researcher employed a
qualitative research approach, cause study research design, primary and secondary data
sources, purposive sampling techniques, and an explanatory method of data analysis in the
study. The findings of this study are ethnic line institutional administration at a local level
encouraged ethnic conflict in a multi-ethnic society. Moreover, the study found that the absences
of reconciliation and compensation, and non-integrative socio-cultural conflict management
with institutional conflict management in the conflict managements are a problem for the
continuity of ethnic conflict in Mandura woreda.
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: Local government, ethnicity, ethnic politics, ethnic conflict, conflict management