Fundamental Challenges in Academic–Government Partnership in Conflict Research in the Pastoral Lowlands of Ethiopia
dc.contributor.author | Fekadu Mulugeta, Mercy | |
dc.contributor.author | Gebresenbet, Fana | |
dc.contributor.author | Tariku, Yonas | |
dc.contributor.author | Nettir, Ekal | |
dc.coverage.spatial | Ethiopia | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-06-05T15:32:22Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-06-05T15:32:22Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019-06-05 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Fekadu Mulugeta, M., Gebresenbet, F., Tariku, Y. and Nettir, E. (2019) 'Fundamental Challenges in Academic–Government Partnership in Conflict Research in the Pastoral Lowlands of Ethiopia' in Exploring Research–Policy Partnerships in International Development, IDS Bulletin 50.1, Brighton: IDS | en |
dc.identifier.uri | https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/14518 | |
dc.description.abstract | The Ethiopian government continuously calls for policy-relevant research. However, this admission of policy challenges and attempts to fill the gap cannot ignore the political economy and power dynamics in Ethiopia. This article discusses challenges to an impactful partnership with government, drawing from the experiences of the ‘conflict working group’, the ESRC-DFID-funded project ‘Shifting In/equality Dynamics in Ethiopia: from Research to Application’ (SIDERA). We argue that research should empower communities; however, to government, research is a tool to buttress efforts to ‘secure’ and ‘pacify’ the lowlands to eventually facilitate extraction. The article also addresses the lack of consensus on basic concepts such as conflict. We argue that it is a rational response to environmental change and state-led dispossessions, while to government, it is an expression of ‘backwardness’ and ‘irrationality’. The development of a meaningful partnership in this context was dependent on navigating meanings and power relations. | en |
dc.description.sponsorship | Department for International Development (DFID) | en |
dc.description.sponsorship | Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | Institute of Development Studies | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | IDS Bulletin;50.1 | |
dc.rights | This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original authors and source are credited and any modifications or adaptations are indicated. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode | en |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en |
dc.subject | Development Policy | en |
dc.title | Fundamental Challenges in Academic–Government Partnership in Conflict Research in the Pastoral Lowlands of Ethiopia | en |
dc.type | Article | en |
dc.rights.holder | Institute of Development Studies | en |
dc.identifier.team | Imapct and Learning Team | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.19088/1968-2019.108 | |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2019-06-05 | |
rioxxterms.funder | Default funder | en |
rioxxterms.identifier.project | Default project | en |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en |
rioxxterms.funder.project | 9ce4e4dc-26e9-4d78-96e9-15e4dcac0642 | en |
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