Re-Imagining Transformative Strategies to End Minority Marginalization in Ethiopia

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The article discusses how Ethiopia's efforts since 1991 to create an ethnically equal state have led to significant minority marginalization instead of equality. It highlights the shortcomings of current legal and institutional frameworks in protecting minority rights. The study focuses on transformative strategies to address this issue, using a qualitative research approach with primary and secondary data sources. Findings emphasize the need to reimagine strategies due to the failures of existing constitutional promises. Recommendations include advancing national and local minority rights institutions, implementing transitional justice measures, electoral reforms, decentralization of power, establishing minority autonomous governance, enhancing local government capacity, forming national minority councils, endorsing legislative reforms by minority representatives, public service reform for increased minority employment, and ensuring equal media access for marginalized groups' political participation and freedom of expression.

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