And is the current federal system encouraging ethnic violence?
Goitom Gebreluel is a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge, where he studies the international relations and comparative politics of the Horn ... of Africa. His publications have appeared in the Washington Quarterly, the Yale Journal of International Affairs and Foreign Affairs.
And is the current federal system encouraging ethnic violence?
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