Giving Ethiopia’s Tactical Peace Strategic Substance
The longing for normalcy and a semblance of individual and collective security in Ethiopia has been frustratingly long.
However, if the quest for peace has anyone personifying it, Derartu Tulu, an Olympian, would have no match for her courage in speaking against violence and defending peace. She spoke truth to power – and to all those that dance to its tune – not when rhetorical peace was the day's melody and the official narrative favoured it. She dared and stood for victims when it was too unpopular and with consequences in widespread backlash.
Derartu could have been the face of a...