THE CAUSES OF POLITICAL PROTEST AND ITS CONSEQUENCES ON SOCIO-POLITICAL CONDITIONS IN  AMHARA REGIONAL STATE: THE CASE OF WOLDIA TOWN.

SOLOMON, MOLLA

dc.contributor.author	SOLOMON, MOLLA
dc.date.accessioned	2019-10-14T08:40:04Z
dc.date.available	2019-10-14T08:40:04Z
dc.date.issued	2019-10-14
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/9882
dc.description.abstract	Recently, protest politics was becoming the common form of political participation in Ethiopian politics. However, it was the reviled political space that eyed negatively by the government of the country. Due to this fact, many losses had occurred in the country. Thus, aware of this information, the main objective of this study was to assess the causes, nature and consequence of protest politics in Woldia town. The researcher used sequential exploratory design by referring both primary and secondary data. The study used social movement approaches as a theoretical framework. The essential data were attained by questionnaire, focus group discussions, documents and interviews. A total of 218 respondents were administered in three kebeles of Woldia town through simple random sampling technique; and this data was analyzed through percentage and cross tabulation. 26 interviewees were also selected in purposive and snow ball techniques for qualitative data and analyzed thematically which was supported in simple descriptive statistics. The study uncovered that the protest was ascribed as: repressive and ideology engrained, death escorted, weakly managed, and fiercely resisted. The study also revealed that economic and political related factors were the foundational causes that begot protest politics in Woldia town. Besides, ethnic slurs, spillover effects and military interventions were the immediate causes. Moreover, political freedom and sacking of officials were the immediate political outcomes of the protest; and, procedural changes, non-institutional outcomes, politicization of ethnicity and path- depended reforms were the implications of the protest on political dimensions. Furthermore, suspicion, hatred, displacement, mob-decision, exclusion and violent behavior were propagated with the eruption of the political protest. In sum, ethnic political system caused the protest and the life and death escorted protest in turn, brought both positive and negative outcomes to the people of the study area. Thus, as the Tigrians and Amharas were seemingly on the verge of enmity lines; the two regional leaders should entertain public to public relation, leader to leader togetherness, religious intervention, ingenuity to the people, to minimize ethnic division and to back into normalcy. Key Terms: Political, Protest, Repression, Tigray People Liberation Front, Woldia	en_US
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.subject	Political Science	en_US
dc.title	THE CAUSES OF POLITICAL PROTEST AND ITS CONSEQUENCES ON SOCIO-POLITICAL CONDITIONS IN AMHARA REGIONAL STATE: THE CASE OF WOLDIA TOWN.	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US