2015 ← Mehari Taddele Maru

Summary of my presentation to the UN Human Rights Council Third Session of the Open-Ended Intergovernmental Working Group to Consider the Possibility of Elaborating an International Regulatory Framework on the Regulation, Monitoring and Oversight  of the Activities of Private Military and Security Companies

May

19

2015

Summary of my presentation to the Third Session Of The Open-Ended Intergovernmental Working Group to Consider the Possibility of Elaborating an International Regulatory Framework on the Regulation, Monitoring and Oversight  of the Activities of Private Military and Security Companies “Mehari Taddele Maru highlighted the increasing number of PMSCs, the range of their services and the ...

In Defense of the IGAD-led Mediation Original Position on Multi-stakeholder Negotiations

May

9

2015

The South Sudan crisis has invited many parallel peace initiative alongside the IGAD-led mediation, such as the Arusha Intra-party process, the Khartoum process and the less talked about Entebbe meetings. In addition to siphoning off scarce resources and eroding the necessary sense of urgency and shared purpose, these parallel processes also produced widely divergent end ...

Migration Governance in Ethiopia: The need for a comprehensive National Policy on Migration

May

9

2015

The heinous and diabolical mass murder of innocent Ethiopian migrants in Libya by Islamic State (IS) Libya highlights the need for broad public dialogue, including particular interfaith consultations, on religious extremism as well as a swift governmental response to the emergency situation. As our response was united, firm and quick, long-term sustained well-reasoned action against ...

Ethiopia’s Policy towards the AU: Time to look beyond unique contributions and special responsibilities

Apr

16

2015

Dr. iur. Mehari Taddele Maru and Abel Abate http://addisstandard.com/ethiopias-policy-towards-the-au-time-to-look-beyond-unique-contributions-special-responsibilities/ Ethiopia’s Pan-African positions promoted by the three regimes were equally solid, nevertheless, their policies foundations and ambitions in relation to the AU were unambiguously divergent. While the regimes of Emperor Haile Selassie and Colonel Mengistu were outward looking and excessively externalized Ethiopia’s internal problems, the current regime ...

Ethiopia’s Ad hoc AU Policy

Apr

12

2015

This is an abridged version of a forthcoming longer and more substantive article, which will be published as a chapter of a book in 2015 by Zed publishers. Ethiopia’s absence of a long-term and substantive policy toward the African Union (AU) has resulted in a missed opportunity to play a more robust role and well-formulated ...