GIJTR’s Research and Connections Drive Agendas: The Ethiopia Survey
A protest walk in Washington, D.C. in September 2006 in support of Ethiopian political prisoners. Photo credit: Elvert Barnes. Licensed under CC BY 2.0
In 2023, as Ethiopia emerged from a devastating conflict in its north, The Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI) collaborated with GIJTR to conduct a participatory survey of the population in affected communities nationally. As the findings are revealed, they are proving vital to informing policy and programming to promote more effective peace, atrocity prevention and transitional justice efforts. At the conclusion of data collection, HHI presented initial data to a range of key actors, including the Canadian and German governments, representatives of the European Union and the United States Department of State, among others. The British Embassy also requested a dedicated briefing
on the findings from HHI researchers. As a way of sharing lessons broadly with the field, GIJTR held a side event at the UN General Assembly organized by the Group of Friends on the Responsibility to Protect. The report was also cited in a summary of the findings in Foreign Affairs . In addition to producing a piece of highly visible research that puts a victim- centered perspective on Ethiopia’s transitional justice process, the high-level outreach the project has achieved allows it to drive agendas around Ethiopia’s transition at both national and international levels, feeding directly into policy discussions with the British, Canadian, Ethiopian and United States governments.
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Transforming Transitional Justice: A Decade of Change, Growth & Sustained Impact—A Summary Report
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