| Name |
Getachew |
| Father’s name |
Kassa |
| Grand father’s name |
Negussie |
| Education |
- BA, History, Addis Ababa University, 1983
- MA, Social Anthropology, University of Bayreuth, West Germany, 1988
- M.Phil., Social Anthropology, LSE/University of London, 1993
- PhD, Social Anthropology SOAS/University of London, 1997
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| Academic rank |
Assistant Professor, 1997 |
| Working for AAU |
Since Sept. 1982/83 |
| Administrative positions held |
Chairman and Coordinator of the Research Unit of The Institute Of Ethiopian Studies (IES), Associate Director of the Institute of Ethiopian studies (IES), Acting Director of the Institute of Ethiopian studies (IES)Community Services:
Member of the Departmental Graduate Committee (DGC) of the Graduate Social Anthropology Programme at CSS, Addis Ababa University, Member of the Departmental Seminar and Field Trip Organizing Committee, Department of Sociology and Social anthropology, Member of the Research Application Evaluation Committee, Department of Sociology, Member of the Editorial board of The SEB Bulletin, Department of Sociology. |
| Office address |
Campus: MainBuilding: Social SciencesFloor number: 3rd
Office room no.: 323B
Office tel.: +251-118-493630
Mobile: +251-911-215583
University email ID: Getachew.kassa@aau.edu.et
Alternative email ID: getachewkn@yahoo.com |
| Research Interest |
Pastoralism culture, development and conflict; natural resources use and management culture; land tenure systems; development and development implications on pastoral and agro-pastoral peoples |
| List of Recent publications |
- Getachew Kassa, 2003a. “Crisis, Change and Continuity in some Strategies used by Pastoralists and agro-pastoralist groups to cope with scarcity, competition, conflicts and other types of stresses: Notes from Afar, Issa, Kereyu, Borana, Garri, Degodia, and Garrimarro in northeastern and Southern Ethiopia.” in the Proceedings of the 14th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, IES, Addis Ababa, AAU Press.
- Getachew Kassa 2002a “Boran-Degodia Relations” in Getachew Kassa and Kare Lode (eds.) 2002, The Proceedings of the Workshop on Conflict Management in Pastoral Areas held in Nazareth, Care-Ethiopia, and Addis Ababa.
- Getachew Kassa, 2002b “Afar-Issa Conflict” in Getachew and Kare Lode (eds.), 2002, The Proceedings of the Workshop on Conflict Management in Pastoral Areas held in Nazareth, Care-Ethiopia, and Addis Ababa.
- Getachew Kassa, 2002c. “An Overview of root causes of Problems that currently affect Borana Pastoralists of Southern Ethiopia” in Mustafa Babiker (ed.), 2002, Resource Alienation, Militarization and Development: Case Studies from East African Dry lands, Proceedings of the Regional Workshops on East African Dry lands (Khartoum and Addis Ababa), Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa, Addis Ababa: Commercial Printing Press.
- Getachew Kassa, 2002d. “Resource use and management Practices and Resource use Conflicts among Afar pastoralists of Ethiopia”, In ShibruTedla (ed.) the Proceedings of Regional Workshop on Resource Use and Management in East Africa, held on December 9-10, 2000, Ghion Hotel, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, organized by IGAAD. Addis Ababa.
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