Negotiating law in the peripheries of Southern Ethiopia

埃塞俄比亚南部周边地区的谈判法

• 批准号: 282621524
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Karl-Heinz Kohl
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Frobenius-Institut
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2014-12-31 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/282621524?language=en
• 关键词: Negotiating; law; peripheries; Southern; Ethiopia

The project will focus on how the recent enforcement of state law in Southern Ethiopia is negotiated between a previously rather remote community and the local government officials many of whom are native to the area.Ethiopia was never colonized and introduced its modern codified law only in the 1960s, assimilating customary laws of the then dominant highland groups as much as possible. At that time, the study area in the southern lowlands has only marginally been included into the nation state and until today conflicts are still almost exclusively resolved locally. Recently the government began to put pressure for a stricter implementation of state law in all territories. Yet, as the new Ethiopian constitution of 1995 grants equal treatment for all ethnic groups and cultures and allows to some extent the application of customary law, room is left for negotiation and a creative handling of conflicts, both on the side of service seekers and also service providers.The research will specifically focus on1) decision making processes in the local community in which legal forum (locally or in court) to choose2) differences in the choices men and women might make and the benefits they attain3) areas of negotiation with government authorities who navigate between two contradicting value systems (state law and customary law)4) direct and indirect presence of international law (especially human rights) in the study area and its influence on the decision making processes of both, legal service seekers and service providers.Data will be collected doing ethnographic fieldwork, using mostly qualitative methods (observation, structured and unstructured interviews, group discussions, extended case studies) addressing multiple actors' perspectives. Legal documents will be reviewed at different levels of the Ethiopian federal state.The study will contribute to the growing literature on the creative handling of legally plural situations; to (re-)formation or hybridization of normative orders the perspective of different stakeholders, it will also contribute to a more gendered view on African legal pluralism.

该项目将重点关注埃塞俄比亚南部一个以前相当偏远的社区和当地政府官员之间如何谈判最近执行国家法律的问题，其中许多人是该地区的本地人。埃塞俄比亚从未被殖民，直到 20 世纪 60 年代才引入了现代成文法，尽可能地吸收了当时占主导地位的高地群体的习惯法。当时，南部低地的研究地区仅被少量纳入民族国家，直到今天冲突仍然几乎完全在当地解决。最近，政府开始施加压力，要求在所有地区更严格地执行州法律。然而，由于 1995 年新的埃塞俄比亚宪法给予所有民族和文化平等待遇，并在一定程度上允许适用习惯法，因此无论是服务寻求者还是服务提供者，都为谈判和创造性地处理冲突留下了空间。该研究将特别关注 1) 当地社区的决策过程，其中可以选择法律论坛（当地或法院）2) 男性和女性可能做出的选择以及他们获得的利益的差异 达到3) 与在两个相互矛盾的价值体系（国家法和习惯法）之间导航的政府当局进行谈判的领域4) 研究领域中国际法（特别是人权）的直接和间接存在及其对法律服务寻求者和服务提供者的决策过程的影响。将通过民族志实地考察收集数据，主要使用定性方法（观察、结构化和非结构化访谈、小组讨论、扩展案例研究） 解决多个参与者的观点。法律文件将在埃塞俄比亚联邦国家的不同级别进行审查。这项研究将有助于不断增加关于创造性地处理法律多元化情况的文献；从不同利益相关者的角度来看，规范秩序的（重新）形成或混合，也将有助于对非洲法律多元化产生更加性别化的看法。