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Title Towards a Meaningful Peace for Tigray: How to Move from the 'Permanent Cessation of Hostilities Agreement' to a Durable Peace
Full text https://hdl.handle.net/1842/42548; http://dx.doi.org/10.7488/era/5242
Date 2024
Author(s) Berhe, Mulugeta Gebrehiwot
Abstract This memo examines the state of implementation of the 'Permanent Cessation of Hostilities Agreement' signed by the Government of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (FGE) and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) in Pretoria, South Africa, in November 2022, fifteen months on. The Pretoria Agreement is deficient in many ways. The Nairobi Declaration on Modalities for Implementation, which followed shortly thereafter, did not fill the major gaps. What exists is a bare-bones commitment to ending active hostilities with only the vaguest outline for how the parties will resolve their political differences and move the country forward. Most of these deficiencies were evident at the time. There was, and remains, a danger that the agreement serves as an instrument for continuing the objectives of the war in a different way. Nonetheless the Pretoria Agreement and Nairobi Declaration are the only basis for moving forward. This memo examines what has and has not been implemented and what should be the next steps. Key unimplemented provisions include the restoration of the administrative territory of Tigray under the constitution, the return of IDPs to their places of origin; the disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration of TDF combatants; efforts towards transitional justice; resumption of humanitarian assistance at scale, and efforts towards post conflict rehabilitation and reconstruction. The two parties have agreed to jointly evaluate the implementation of the agreement in the presence of the AU panel that midwifed the agreement. This is an opportunity for a frank appraisal of what needs to be done.
Subject(s) Peace Processes; Ethiopia
Type of publication Publication
Format application/pdf
Identifier Gebrehiwot, M. (2024). Towards a Meaningful Peace for Tigray: How to Move from the 'Permanent Cessation of Hostilities Agreement' to a Durable Peace. Somerville, MA: World Peace Foundation.
Repository Edinburgh - University of Edinburgh
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