ETHNIC-BASED POLITICAL PARTIES

Description

The aim of this book is to investigate the challenges and prospects of ethnic-based politics on the national unity of Ethiopia. To address the objectives of the study, the researcher employed a qualitative approach with a case study as study design and used primary and secondary data sources. Primary data was collected from the key informant interview and FGDs. Secondary data was collected from different books, reports, journals, published and unpublished proclamations, conference papers, dissertations, and the FDRE constitution. In this study, the researcher has been used purposive sampling and thematic analysis methods based on the objectives of the study. With the view of ensuring unity with diversity, the finding of the study has revealed that ethnic-based political parties have daunting challenges for national unity. In this regard, they are playing in the politicizing of ethnicities, ethnic autonomy conflicts, and intra-regional boundary conflicts, and self-determination and secessionists feeling were discussed on the challenges of national unity for the country.