{"id":34794,"date":"2018-09-27T09:56:25","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T13:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/?p=34794"},"modified":"2021-02-03T16:36:35","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T21:36:35","slug":"woldemariam-in-ft-on-reforms-in-ethiopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2018\/09\/27\/woldemariam-in-ft-on-reforms-in-ethiopia\/","title":{"rendered":"Woldemariam in FT<\/i> on Reforms in Ethiopia"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Michael Woldemariam,<\/a>\u00a0Assistant Professor of International Relations and Political Science at the\u00a0Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University,\u00a0was interviewed for an article on Ethiopian Prime Minister\u00a0Abiy Ahmed’s promises for democratic reform despite\u00a0a recent crackdown by government security forces.<\/span><\/p>\n

Woldemariam was quoted in a September 26, 2018 article in the\u00a0Financial Times<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>entitled “Ethiopian Crackdown Clouds Premier\u2019s Reform Agenda.<\/a>“<\/span><\/p>\n

From the text of the article:<\/p>\n

\u201cAbiy has done a lot to bring dissatisfied groups, factions and actors back into the political process, to normalise their status, and that has created a lot of optimism,\u201d said Michael Woldemariam, an Ethiopia expert at Boston University.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn the other hand, you\u2019ve got a country with a long history of authoritarianism, with a very difficult history of ethnic politics and you\u2019re almost taking the lid off a lot of those tensions,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Michael Woldemariam\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0teaching and research interests focus on African politics, particularly the dynamics of armed conflict, the behavior of rebel organizations and self-determination movements, and post-conflict institution building. He has special expertise on the Horn of Africa region, where he has traveled\u00a0extensively and conducted fieldwork.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Prof. Michael Woldemariam discusses Ethiopian Prime Minister\u00a0Abiy Ahmed’s promises for democratic reform despite\u00a0a recent crackdown by government security forces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11588,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8410],"tags":[10745,8825,8816,8859,8738],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34794"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34794"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34797,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34794\/revisions\/34797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}