Tigray in Ethiopia: The Persistence of Constraint
The signing of the Pretoria Agreement in November 2022 was widely presented as the end of a devastating war in Tigray. To the world, it promised a transition from destruction to recovery. But for Tigray, today, peace remains more rhetorical than real. What has emerged instead of peace is a quieter, more ambiguous phase of negative peace—one defined by what some call no-war/no-peace. The genocidal war has not stopped with the exception of ceasefire. A Region Without Normalcy The scale of atrocities committed during the genocidal war is well documented. The genocidal war is more deeply, and in its many aspects, documented by The Commission of Inquiry on Tigray Genocide. The Pretoria Agreement was designed not only to stop fighting but to restore services, in addition to many other aspects of returning to normalcy. However, there is a stark failure of implementation by the Ethiopian government. However, the cessation of active war has not translated into meaningful re...
