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Saturday, March 16, 2024
The online "Internal Displacement and Solutions" conference took place from March 14-15, 2024 and marks the culmination of five years of increasing international engagement with the pressing challenge of ‘solutions’ to internal displacement. In 2024, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on Solutions to Internal Displacement will wrap... More
Saturday, February 17, 2024
"Towards a Network of Academic Researchers in East, Horn and Great Lakes Region of Africa for the Promotion of Solutions for Displaced People and Migrants" is a roundtable discussion and workshop hosted by Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia from February 15-16,... More
Monday, February 12, 2024
IDRC Research Chairs call for an end to the silos that divide climate change policy from displacement solutions. Following their inaugural workshop in Dar es-Salaam in May, five of the IDRC Research Chairs on Forced Displacement (Desiree Del Rosario, Abebaw Minaye, Tiga Alain Ouedraogo, Opportuna Kweka, Amal El Ouassif, and Paula Banerjee)... More
Tuesday, January 23, 2024
Authors: Tadessa Megersa and Abebaw Minaye Abstract: Online hate speech is ripping Ethiopian society apart and threatening the values of democracy, human dignity, and peaceful coexistence. The current study argues that understanding people's responses to hateful posts helps combat hate speech online. Therefore, this study aims to comprehend the... More
Authors: Kumneger Fikre and Abebaw Minaye This study aimed at developing a model that describes and explains blended family formation in Ethiopia. It is part of an ongoing dissertation entitled “Family functioning experiences of blended families in Ethiopia.” We employed constructivist grounded theory both as a method and result of inquiry.... More
Thursday, January 4, 2024
Date: 04 January 2024 Time: Time: 9:000AM—11:00AM Location: AAU Registrar RN 304 The Research Chair for Forced Displacement and Migration Studies at AAU, Abebaw Minaye, hosted at the College of Education and behavioral Studies, invites all interested to attend its second Monthly public lecture series for the year. The lecture will be held on... More
Saturday, December 9, 2023
Last week, it was my privilege to accompany the twelve IDRC Research Chairs on Forced Displacement to the 2023 Global Refugee Forum (GRF) in Geneva. Organized by UNHCR, the goal of the GRF is to get member states to make pledges to help refugees, both within their countries and abroad. In the past,... More
Thursday, July 20, 2023
The Ethiopia Chair, Abebaw Minaye, assisted two PhD students to defend their dissertations on the behavior of left behind children as a result of parental migration and the psychosocial predictors of intention to migrate. The Chair also headed a qualitative research training in Gondar and was recognized as researcher of the year of 2022 by the... More
Wednesday, June 21, 2023
On May 30 and 31, in Dar es-Salaam Tanzania, something revolutionary happened. Twelve experts from some of the places most impacted by forced displacement gathered in person for the inaugural workshop of the IDRC Research Chairs Network on Forced Displacement. Funded by Canada’s International Development Research Centre, and with support from... More
Sunday, March 12, 2023
Addas Ababa university has convined a twelve member advisory committee, including the UNHCR representative, IOM deputy chief, representatives of key government sectors, various college deans at AAU, independent scholars and refugee representatives. The university held a training on research ethics and attended a workshop on the role of Refugee Led... More
Monday, November 21, 2022
Addis Ababa University held a launch event for IDRC Chair, Abebaw Minaye. The event featured experts and officers from UN agencies, government representatives, embassies, international NGOs, and the Addis Ababa University Community, as well as regional organizations and representatives of professional and research associations.... More
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