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≛ Could a grassroots peace initiative succeed where governments have struggled to resolve for decades?
A community-led peace initiative is gaining attention across the Horn of Africa as it appears to be spreading beyond its original setting along the Eritrea-Tigray border.
For political scientists and conflict-resolution scholars, the emergence of a people-to-people grassroot peace initiative raises an important questions:
How did a grassroots movement, emerged largely outside official political structures, managed to ease decades of mistrust and hostility between Eritrean and Tigrayan border communities following a devastating war?
Known locally as #Ximdo, the movement began as a people-led rejection of new wars and a call for peaceful coexistence.
Early accounts suggest the initiative has helped ease tensions and create rare periods of relative peace that these communities had not experienced in more than two decades.
Researchers are now closely watching how the Ximdo movement has expanded beyond its original setting, and finding resonance among #Afar, and #Amhara, communities of #Ethiopia, while its message spreading further into Oromia and neighboring #Sudan.
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