Staff publications

The institute has published papers presented in its first and second symposia. The title of the proceedings is ‘Indigenous Peoples’ Rights, Indigenous Knowledge Nexus Development’. Apart from the proceedings the staff members of the institute published various articles (please, see the list below) in reputable local and international journals.

  • Asebe Regassa (2010) Ethnicity and Inter-ethnic Relations: ‘the Ethiopian Experiment’ and the Case of the Guji and Gedeo. Germany: VDM Verlag.
  • ______ (2011a) Contrasts in the Politics of Recognition and Indigenous Peoples’ Rights. AlterNative: an International Journal of Indigenous Peoples 7 (3): 258-271.
  • ______ (2011b) Contested Terrain: Conflicts between State and Local Communities over the Management and Utilization of NechSar National Park, Southern Ethiopia. Journal of Sustainable Development in Africa, Vol. 3, No. 5 (pp. 49-65).
  • ______ (2012a) Whose Conception of Nature? Conflict between State and Local People over NechSar National Park, Ethiopia. African Journal of Governance and Development, Vol. 1. No. 2, pp. 29-46.
  • _______. (2012b). The Dynamics of Ethnicity and Ethnic Policy in Ethiopia: National Discourse and Local Realities. Journal of Oromo Studies, Vol. 19, No.1& 2 (pp.1-36).
  • _______ (2012c). Contesting Views on a Protected Area Conservation and Development in Ethiopia. Soc. Sci. Vol.1, No.1, pp. 22-43.
  • _______ (2012d). Emerging Ethnic Identities and Inter-ethnic conflict: A Study on Guji-Burji Conflict in South Ethiopia, Journal of Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Vol. 12, No.3.pp.517-533.
  • Asebe Regassa and Anne Trine Kjolvolt (2013). “Childhood, Food Culture and Eating Practices among the Guji”, In Anne Trine and TatekAbebe (eds.) Childhood and Local Knowledge in Ethiopia: Rights, Livelihood and Generations. Norway: Tapir Academic Press.
  • Asebe Regassa and Meron Zeleke (2014) “Irrecha: The Traditional Oromo Ritual from Local to Global – the transnational dimension of Irrecha”. In AfeAdogame (ed.), Imagining the Religious 'Other': The Public Face of African New Religious Movements in Diaspora. UK: Ashgate Publishing Press.
  • Asebe, Regassa (Accepted) “Competing Epistemologies in Contestation and Conversation: The NechSar National Park Case, Ethiopia”, Journal of Society for the Study of Nature, Religion and Culture.
  • Asebe Regassa and Tadesse Jaleta (forthcoming) “Indigenous Conflict Resolution among the Guji Oromo” In Ezekiel Gebisa (Ed.) Indigenous Systems of Peace in Ethiopia: The Oromo Experience.
  • Asebe, Regassa, et al. (2016) “Tree is Life:” Ecocultural Shifts in Material-Symbolic Discoursesamong the Gedeo of Southern Ethiopia, Journal of Environmental Communication.
  • Asebe Regassa (2016) Wilderness or Home? Conflicts, Narratives of Entitlement and Power Positions among Actors Contesting over NechSar National Park, Ethiopia. Berlin: Lit Verlag
  • Yetebarek H, Asebe R, and Benedict K. 2018. ‘Civilizing’ the pastoral frontier: land grabbing, dispossession and coercive agrarian development in Ethiopia.https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2017.1420060
  • Yetebarek Hizekeal, Randi Haugland, and Ongaye Oda. (Submitted). Contested Trans-border Economic Relations and their Implications for National Economic Development: The Ethiopia-Kenya Border Case. Journal of East African Studies
  • Yetebarek Hizekeal (2019) The Advent of “Modern State” in Ethiopia and Dynamics in the Gofa Personal Names and Naming Practices. Nordic Journal of African Cultural Studies
  • Zelalem Temesgen, Asaye Bogale, Asefa Abate, Daniel Fekadu, Samson Seid. (2012). Shared Cultural Values among Kambata, Tambaro and Donga Ethnic Groups. SNNPRS, Council of Nationalities. Bole Printing Press, Addis Ababa.
  • Zelalem Temesgen, Daniel Fekadu, Moges Dagne, and Zeleke Abiso. (2014). Shared Cultural Values of Kaffa, Nao and Chara Ethnic Groups. SNNPRS, Council of Nationalities, Sabeh Printing Press, Hawasa.
  • Ongaye Oda Orkaydo and Mous, Maarten. (2016). Subject clitics in Konso. In Nordic Journal of African Studies, vol. 25 (1), pages 23-51
  • Ongaye Oda Orkaydo. (2017a). A Grammar of Silt’e. Berana Printing Enterprise.
  • Regassa Debelo A, Legesse A, Milstein T and Orkaydo O O. (2017b). “Tree is Life”: The Rising of Dualism and the Declining of Mutualism among the Gedeo of Southern Ethiopia. In Frontiers in Communication. 2:7.
  • Ongaye Oda Orkaydo and Maarten Mous. (2017). The semantics of pluractionals and punctual in Konso (Cushitic, Ethiopia). Journal of African Languages and Linguistics. De Gruyter Mouton. V 38:2, pages 223-263.
  • Befikadu Habtemariam, Ongaye Oda Orkaydo and Yetebarek Hizekeal. (2019). Indigenous farming systems, state’s “modernizing” schemes, and emerging dynamics in Dirashe, southwest Ethiopia. Proceedings of the 8th National Research Conference, Dilla University. Page