Grass-roots Justice in Ethiopia

Grass-roots Justice in Ethiopia
Author: Getachew Assefa (dir.). Alula Pankhurst
Publisher: Centre français des études éthiopiennes
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2016-07-28
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 2821872348

This book presents a timely review of the relations between the formal and customary justice systems in Ethiopia, and offers recommendations for legal reform. The book provides cases studies from all the Region of Ethiopia based on field research on the working of customary dispute resolution (CDR) institutions, their mandates, compositions, procedures and processes. The cases studies also document considerable unofficial linkages with the state judicial system, and consider the advantages as well as the limitations of customary institutions with respect to national and international law. The editor's introduction reviews the history of state law and its relations with customary law, summarises the main findings by region as well as as on inter-ethnic issues, and draws conclusions about social and legal structures, principles of organization, cultural concepts and areas, and judicial processes. The introduction also addresses the questions of inclusion and exclusion on the basis of gerontocratic power, gender, age and marginalised status, and the gradual as well as remarkable recent transformations of CDR institutions. The editor's conclusion reviews the characteristics, advantages and limitations of CDR institutions. A strong case is made for greater recognition of customary systems and better alliance with state justice, while safeguarding individual and minority rights. The editors suggest that the current context of greater decentralization opens up opportunities for pratical collaboration between the systems by promoting legal pluralism and reform, thereby enhancing local level justice delivery. The editors conclude by proposing a range of options for more meaningful partnership for consideration by policy makers, the legal profession and other stakeholders. In memory of Aberra Jembere and Dinsa Lepisa. Cover: Elders at peace ceremony in Arbore, 1993.

The First World War from Tripoli to Addis Ababa (1911-1924)

The First World War from Tripoli to Addis Ababa (1911-1924)
Author: Collectif
Publisher: Centre français des études éthiopiennes
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2018-10-08
Genre: History
ISBN:

For a long time now it has been common understanding that Africa played only a marginal role in the First World War. Its reduced theatre of operations appeared irrelevant to the strategic balance of the major powers. This volume is a contribution to the growing body of historical literature that explores the global and social history of the First World War. It questions the supposedly marginal role of Africa during the Great War with a special focus on Northeast Africa. In fact, between 1911 and 1924 a series of influential political and social upheavals took place in the vast expanse between Tripoli and Addis Ababa. The First World War was to profoundly change the local balance of power. This volume consists of fifteen chapters divided into three sections. The essays examine the social, political and operational course of the war and assess its consequences in a region straddling Africa and the Middle East. The relationship between local events and global processes is explored, together with the regional protagonists and their agency. Contrary to the myth still prevailing, the First World War did have both immediate and long-term effects on the region. This book highlights some of the significant aspects associated with it.

Justice on the Grass

Justice on the Grass
Author: Dina Temple-Raston
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2005
Genre: Genocide
ISBN: 9780743251105

Award-winning author and journalist Dina Temple-Raston examines the horrific Rwanda genocide of 1994, and describes how a community picks up the pieces.

Grass-roots Justice in Ethiopia

Grass-roots Justice in Ethiopia
Author: Alula Pankhurst
Publisher:
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2008
Genre: Customary law
ISBN:

This book presents a timely review of the relations between the formal and customary justice systems in Ethiopia, and offers recommendations for legal reform. The book provides cases studies from all the Region of Ethiopia based on field research on the working of customary dispute resolution (CDR) institutions, their mandates, compositions, procedures and processes. The cases studies also document considerable unofficial linkages with the state judicial system, and consider the advantages as.

Legal Pluralism in Ethiopia

Legal Pluralism in Ethiopia
Author: Susanne Epple
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Total Pages: 415
Release: 2020-07-31
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3839450217

Being a home to more than 80 ethnic groups, Ethiopia has to balance normative diversity with efforts to implement state law across its territory. This volume explores the co-existence of state, customary, and religious legal forums from the perspective of legal practitioners and local justice seekers. It shows how the various stakeholders' use of negotiation, and their strategic application of law can lead to unwanted confusion, but also to sustainable conflict resolution, innovative new procedures and hybrid norms. The book thus generates important knowledge on the conditions necessary for stimulating a cooperative co-existence of different legal systems.

Grassroots Innovation

Grassroots Innovation
Author: Anil K Gupta
Publisher: Random House India
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2016-07-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 8184007795

A moral dilemma gripped Professor Gupta when he was invited by the Bangladeshi government to help restructure their agricultural sector in 1985. He noticed how the marginalized farmers were being paid poorly for their otherwise unmatched knowledge. The gross injustice of this constant imbalance led Professor Gupta to found what would turn into a resounding social and ethical movement—the Honey Bee Network—bringing together and elevating thousands of grassroots innovators. For over two decades, Professor Gupta has travelled through rural lands unearthing innovations by the ranks—from the famed Mitti Cool refrigerator to the footbridge of Meghalaya. He insists that to fight the largest and most persistent problems of the world we must eschew expensive research labs and instead, look towards ordinary folk. Innovation—that oft-flung around word—is stripped to its core in this book. Poignant and personal, Grassroots Innovation is an important treatise from a social crusader of our time.

Marxist Modern

Marxist Modern
Author: Donald Lewis Donham
Publisher: James Currey
Total Pages: 268
Release: 1999
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780852552698

This is a cultural history of the Ethiopian revolution that highlights the role of modernist Marxist ideas as they interacted with local, mostly rural, traditions.