Legal Pluralism in Ethiopia : Actors, Challenges and Solutions / Susanne Epple, Getachew Assefa

• HerausgeberIn: Epple, Susanne; Assefa, Getachew
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Kultur und Soziale Praxis
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (414 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).

Being a home to more than 80 ethnic groups, Ethiopia has to balance normative diversity with efforts to implement state law across its territory. This volume explores the co-existence of state, customary, and religious legal forums from the perspective of legal practitioners and local justice seekers. It shows how the various stakeholders' use of negotiation, and their strategic application of law can lead to unwanted confusion, but also to sustainable conflict resolution, innovative new procedures and hybrid norms. The book thus generates important knowledge on the conditions necessary for stimulating a cooperative co-existence of different legal systems.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 Acknowledgements 9 1. Introduction 11 2. Towards widening the constitutional space for customary justice systems in Ethiopia 43 3. The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and African Societies 63 4. Understanding customary laws in the context of legal pluralism 71 5. The handling of homicide in the context of legal pluralism 97 6. The interplay of customary and formal legal systems among the Tulama Oromo 115 7. Federal Sharia Courts in Addis Ababa 139 8. Use and abuse of 'the right to consent' 163 9. Local strategies to maintain cultural integrity 187 10. Legal pluralism and Protestant Christianity 213 11. Kontract: A hybrid form of law among the Sidama 235 12. Legal pluralism and emerging legal hybridity 263 13. A matter perspective: Of transfers, switching, and cross-cutting legal procedures 283 14. When parallel justice systems lack mutual recognition 311 15. Combatting infanticide in Bashada and Hamar 339 16. Clashing values 371 Glossary 399 Contributors 409