Ethiopia
Subtitle: the challenge of democracy from below
By: edited by Bahru Zewde and Siegfried Pausewang.
Contributors: Bahru Zewde.; Pausewang, Siegfried.; Yamāh̲barāwi ṭenāt madrak (Ethiopia)
Publisher: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet; Forum for Social Studies
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Uppsala; Addis Ababa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
Subjects: Democratization -- Ethiopia.; Ethiopia -- Politics and government -- 1991-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-212).
Produced as the result of a collaborative venture between the Forum for Social Studies and the Chr. Michelsen Institute with funding from the Norwegian Foreign Ministry.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Bahru Zewde; title: Systems of local governance among the Gurage / Bahru Zewde; title: Sera : traditionalism or living democratic values? : case study among the Sidama in southern Ethiopia / Øyvind Aadland; title: Seera : a traditional institution of Kambata / Yacob Arsano; title: Models of democracy, perceptions of power : government and peasantry in Ethiopia / Harald Aspen; title: Peasant participation in land reform : the Amhara land redistribution of 1997 / Svein Ege; title: No environmental protection without local democracy? / Siegfried Pausewang; title: Civil society organizations in Ethiopia / Dessalegn Rhamato; title: The role of NGOs in protecting democratic values / Kassahun Berhanu; title: Decentralization in Ethiopia / Mehret Ayenew; title: Mengistulore : oral literatures depicting the man, his regime, officials and proclamations / Fekade Azeze; title: Democratisation and gender / Original Wolde Giorgis; title: The state of the press in Ethiopia / Shimelis Bonsa.