Assefa Fiseha
Job Title
Associate professor
Organization
Addis Ababa University, College of Law and Governance, Center for Federal Studies
Country
Area of Expertise
- Conflict
- Gender and constitutions
- Diversity
- Customary governance/legal pluralism
- Human rights
- Judicial system design
- Minority issues
- Participation
- Power sharing (horizontal/vertical)
- Religion
- Security sector
Publications
Federalism and the Accommodation of Diversity in Ethiopia: A Comparative Study (2006); ‘Ethiopia’s Experiment in Accommodating Diversity: 20 Years Balance Sheet’ Regional and Federal Studies 22:4 (2012); Customary Dispute Resolution Mechanisms in Ethiopia co-edited with two others (Assefa Fiseha, Gebre Yentiso and Fekade Azeze), (Addis Ababa: Eclipse Printing, 2011, 2012 two volumes); ‘Some Reflections on the Role of the Judiciary in Ethiopia” in Recht in Afrika 2011:1; “Addis Ababa: A Federal Capital in Search of a Stable and Efficient Governance System” in Enid Slack and Rupak Chattopadhyay (eds.) Finance and Governance of Capital Cities in Federal Systems (2009); ‘The System of Inter-governmental Relations (IGR) in Ethiopia: In Search of Institutions and Guidelines’ in the Journal of Ethiopian Law 23:1 (2009) and ‘Theory versus Practice in the Implementation of Ethiopia’s Ethnic Federalism,’ in David Turton (ed.) Ethnic Federalism: The Ethiopian Experience in Comparative Perspective (2006).