Dynamics among Ethnicity-State/Periphery-Center in the Horn.

本研究旨在从政治、经济和生存三个方面考察外围民族在与国家和中央政权的关系发生剧烈变化的过程中，如何制定新的生存战略和重新组织社会结构。通过对个案研究的分析，我们试图从学术的角度对民族国家与族群关系的新模式这一紧迫的世界性问题做出贡献。为此，本年度我们收集了中央和地方行政机关所属民族自治政策的基本文件资料。第二年，我们对国家发展政策提供基础设施和社会结构的变化进行了研究。为了使我们的研究具体化，第三年我们从区域层面考察了精英阶层的生活史，以及国家与外围民族的结构性关系，如他们对国家政策的态度。对这些研究的比较研究表明，不同民族对国家的反应是不同的。这种多样性不仅是由于该政策所赋予的利益的不平等，而且也是由于每种文化制度的差异。此外，虽然这些地区之间的差距越来越大，但在每个地区都可以观察到一个新的精英阶层正在出现。基于这些结果，我们设想了一项关于环境退化的新研究，这在埃塞俄比亚已经成为一个严重的问题，我们将具体分析在国家发展政策渗透到整个国家的过程中，人民的生存制度和资源利用如何与环境变化相互关联。

The purpose of this study was to examine in terms of politics, economy and subsistence how the peripheral ethnic groups would make their new subsistence strategy and reorganize their social structure in the process of the drastic change of connection with the state and central power. Through the analyses of case studies, we have tried to contribute to the urgent worldwide issues on the new model of relationship between the nation state and ethnicity from the scademic standpoints.For the above purpose, in the year we collected the basic documents and data on the ethic autonomy policy that the central government and regional administractive offices own. In the second year we conducted research about the state development policy to provide infrastructure and the change of social structure. In order to put into concrete our study, the third year we investigated the life history of elite class in the level of regions and the structural relationship between the state and the peripheral ethic groups such as their attitude toward to the state policy.The comparative study of these researches shows that are various responses against the state from one ethnic group to another. This variety is not only due to the imparity of the interests, which were given by that policy, but also to the differences of each cultural system. Moreover, while these gaps among the regions have become larger, in every region it is observed that a new elite class is appearing. Based on these results, we envisage a new study on the environmental degradation which has become a serious issue in Ethiopia, in which we will analyze concretely how the people's subsistence system and resource use are interrelated to the environmental change in the process that state development policy penetrates the whole country.