an Assessment of the’ No Peace no War‘ Situation Between Ethiopia and Eritrea and Its Implication to Human Security: - The Case of Zelambessa Town Tigray Regional State
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2019-12
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Addis Ababa University
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The main purpose of this thesis is to assess the ‘no peace no war’ situation between
Ethiopian and Eritrea and its implication towards human security in case of
Zelambessa town. To this end, the thesis employed qualitative research approach to
examine participant’s economic activities, Health security’s, and community
interaction among the two country bordering area with Zelambessa town ,the way
make sense of their lives or experiences and it’s challenges. The data were
collected through in-depth interviews, document review, Focus Group Discussions,
and non-participant observation. The participants of the thesis were selected
purposefully based on their skills, experiences, knowledge’s and exposures of the
research participants to the problem. The result of this study reveals that ‘no peace
no war’ situation among Ethiopia and Eritrea affected Zelambessa town in the
following ways. One is in its economic security in which, it hinders land use from
agricultural cultivation, dairy farming and cattle ranching, inaccessible to local
market, trade, and unemployment. Secondly, the Health security problems in the
study area are prevalence of HIV/AIDS, rape, unwanted pregnancy and abortion.
These are basically due to the presence of military camps and in accessible to
health institution because of security threats. The third implication is community
disintegration. This implies that the family member of each country is disintegrated
and they can’t meet with each other families or relatives. Moreover The
Community has lost its shared values like celebrating religious and cultural
ceremony freely because they are lived under fear and suspicion. As a result of the
current peace process of September 2018, there are new hopes and challenges to
Zelambessa town. To solve this both the federal and the local government should
work coordinately to ensure sustainable peace and security in accordance with
public interest and national security. In addition to this to ensure human security in
the study area the government should engage with general public and community
elders in the peace making process, besides to attract investors plan and executed
problem solving projects in the study area.
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Human security, Zelambessa Town, ‘no peace no war’ situation