Kalewongel Minale (Ph.D)

Personal Details

  • Full Name: Kalewongel Minale Gedamu(PhD)
  • Academic Rank: Assistant Professor
  • Current Administrative Title(if any)...
  • Office Address (Dept.  and BLDG/Office No.): Department of Political Science and International Studies
  •  Mobile Number: +251-931392806
  • ·E-Mail Address: kalewongel@gmail.com

Education

  • Ph.D. Degree in ‘Politics, Human Rights and Sustainability’ (Pisa, Italy) Curriculum: Conflict and Political Systems in International Relations’ (from Jan 2012 –Feb 2016).
  • Master of Philosophy in ‘Peace and Conflict Transformation’ (Tromso, Norway)( from Aug 2006 – Aug 2008).
  •  BA in ‘Political Science and International Relations’, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia(from Sep 1999 –June 2004)

Work Experiences

Dates

Appointments

September 2019-October 2021

Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Bahir Dar University

July  2017-August 2018

Research and Community Services Vice Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, Bahir Dar University

 

From March 2016 –June 2017

Assistant Professor and Graduate Programs Coordinator,  Department of Political Science and International Studies, Bahir Dar University

 

From Feb 2009- July 2011

 

Lecturer

From June -2004 –August 2006

 

Graduate Assistant

Training

  • UNITAR online Course,’ Restoring the Governance of Natural Resources 2017’. UNITAR online Course.
  • ‘UNITAR online Course, ‘Confronting Trauma 2017’
  • UNITAR online Course, ‘Gender Matters 2017’,
  • UNITAR online Course, ‘Milestones in UN Peacekeeping 2017’,
  •   UNITAR online Course,‘Introduction to Environment, Natural Resources and UN Peacekeeping Operations 2017’
  •  UNITAR online Course,Introduction to Security Sector Reform 2017’
  •  UNITAR online Course,  Strengthening Civilian Capacities to Protect Civilians Unarmed Civilian Protection 2017’
  •   UNITAR online Course ‘Conflict series 3 From Conflict to Peace 2017’
  •  UNITAR online Course ‘Conflict Series 1 ‘What is a conflict? 2017’
  •  Gender  Integration in Political Transition Environment ts, Office of Transition Initiatives and USAID, October  2016
  •  Advanced English Course, ‘English for Special Purposes (Political Sciences)’, International House, Italy, Feb-June 2012
  • ‘Higher  Diploma in Pedagogy’, Bahir Dar University, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, Sep 2009-June 2010
  • ‘Learners Centred Methods of Instruction and Measurement and Evaluation in Higher Learning Institutions’,  Bahir Dar University, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, Oct 28-Nov 2004

List of Publications

Under Review

  • Minale, K Liberation Movements in Power and the Challenges of Peacebuilding/Statebuilding in the Horn Of Africa’,African Peace and Security, Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre, Acra , Ghana.

Forthcomings

  • Minale, K, “The Local in Peacebuilding in Somaliland, North East Africa” Stability, International Journal of Security and Development.
  •  Minale, K, “Somaliland: A Democratic Beacon of Hope in a Dangerous Part of Africa, as a Chapter for a forthcoming book on Ethics, Accountability, and Fairness in Elections: Lessons for Africa. Pretoria: University of South Africa (UNISA).

 Published

Conferences, Workshops-Seminars and Presentations

  • Concluding Workshop on“Sustained Dialogue among students of Bahir Dar University”. Title of Presentation: “Discontents of Ethnic Federalism in Ethiopia and its Alternatives’ USAID and Life and Peace Institute, Saturday, June 23/2019.
  • Seminar Series onEthiopia: From Conflict to Cooperation, From Violence to Peace (Post 2015), Title of Presentation: “Ethiopia: Averting the danger; (re) claiming the future” Faculty of Social Sciences, Bahir Dar University, 03/11.2017.
  •  Seminar onAfrican migrants are not for sale!” Title of Presentation:Libya: from Arab Spring to a Failed State”,Faculty of Social Sciences, Bahir Dar University, 03/11.2017.
  • “Authors’ workshop on EU - Africa Relations in a Changing Global Order; Africa-EU Relations: Reflecting on Ten Years of Strategic PartnershipEuropean Studies Association of Sub-Saharan Africa (ESA-SSA), Pretoria, South Africa
  •   Friday Seminar Series, Faculty of Social Sciences, Bahir Dar University. Title of PresentationDead Ends and New Beginnings in the International Peace Architecture: A review of the current state of the Literature”, Faculty of Social Sciences, Bahir Dar University, 03/11.2017
  • Broadening the debate in EU –Africa relations: a perspective from Africa’  European Studies Association of Sub-Saharan Africa (ESA-SSA), Pretoria, South Africa. Title of the presentation, ‘Rethinking EU peacebuilding in Africa: A case for the Resilience Approach’ July 19-20,2017
  • Second National Political Science Conference, May 2, 2017, Bahir Dar University, Department of Political Science and International Studies Title of Presentation: ‘Post-conflict peacebuilding in Ethiopia: The Need for Matching the Diagnosis with the Therapy.”
  •   Seminar on “Terror in the Horn of Africa” Fredric Ebert Stiftung (Addis Ababa Office) and Bahir Dar University. Title of  Presentation: “Somaliland: A Ray  of hope from a war-torn region’ July 8,  2016
  • “First National Conference in Political Science” Bahir Dar University, Department of Political Science and International Studies. Presentation on: ‘The History, Development, and Status of Political Science Education and Research in Africa’. April 16, 2017
  • The Fourth International African Peace and Conflict Resolution Conference on Alternative Dispute Resolution and Peace Studies In Africa: Lessons, Prospects and Challenges, Johannesburg, South Africa. African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD) and Centre for African Peace and Conflict Resolution, California state university, USA. Presentation on ‘Clan Elders in Statebuilding in Somaliland: Roles in Reconciliation, Conflict Resolution and Institutional Building’ Jul 25-26, 2014

Honors and Fellowships  

  •   International Deans Course Africa, Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences(2019).
  •    Sant Anna Scholarship for Ph.D. students (3 years)January 2012 –January 2014
  • Research Fellow, University of Hargeisa, Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, Hargeisa, Somaliland (3 months) Sep-Nov 2013
  • Visiting Research Student, London School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), Department of Politics and International Studies, London, United Kingdom(3 months). April June 2013
  • Norwegian Quota Scholarship (2 years)

 Courses Taught 

Graduate

  • Introduction to Peace and Conflicts Studies,
  • Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding,
  • Conflict in the Horn of Africa

Undergraduate

  • Democracy, Human Rights and Citizenship,
  • Conflict and Conflict Resolution I and II,
  • Introduction to Multiculturalism
  • State, Society, and Citizenship, etc.  

Language

  • English: Fluent, Oral and Written
  • Amharic: Mother Tongue
  •  Italian: Basic

References: Available upon request.

 

Department: 
Civics and Ethical Studies
Rank: 
Asistant Professor
Contact info: 
0931392806 / kalewongel@gmail.com
Department: 
Political Science and International Studies