Yared Debebe

Laureate of the 2024 Atlas programme
Yared Debebe

Yared Debebe (PhD) is an assistant professor of Peace and Security Studies at the Department of Political Science, University of Gondar. His areas of research interest include nationalism, identity, social movements, and peacebuilding in the Horn of Africa. Yared has published journal articles and a book chapters on these topics. He is fellow of the Wilson Center, Africa Program, Washington DC and DAAD scholarship recipient.

The project

Title: Political Sociology of Amhara Fano in Ethiopia: Structure, Mobilization, and Contestation

Selection of publications

  • Atrsaw Necho and Yared Debebe (2024). Understanding the Fano Insurgency, Research Briefing, Rift Valley Institute.
  • Kukkuk, L. and Yared Debebe (2024). A human security approach to peace support operations: Contextual and Theoretical Framework (Volume I), Working Paper, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung and IPSS, Addis Ababa
  • Kukkuk, L. Yared Debebe, Fahria Warsame Said and Hiwot Arkiso (2024). A human security approach for AU PSOs: Lessons from AMISOM (Volume II), Working Paper, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung and IPSS, Addis Ababa
  • Yared Debebe (2022). Tackling the Challenges of Peacebuilding in the Eastern Nile Basin: A Regional Security Complex Approach, Wilson Center Research Paper No. 32
  • Yared Debebe (2022). Discursive trajectories in the making of Amharaness in Ethiopia. Nations and Nationalism, 28 (1), 1267-1281. 
  • Dias, A; Yared Debebe (2022). “Anatomies of protest and the trajectories of actors at play: Ethiopia 2015-2018”, In Edalina Sanches (Ed) Popular Protest, Political Opportunities and Change in Africa (pp.181-199), Rutledge: London, UK. 
Published at 14 June 2024