The Role of Ethnic and Religious Spatialities in The Role of Ethnic and Religious Spatialities in Addis Ababa's Urban Conflict Ababa's Urban Conflicts

定量研究表明，武装冲突更有可能发生在族裔和宗教实体重叠的国家(Basedau等人，2011年)。这项研究项目通过对埃塞俄比亚目前紧张局势的定性调查，进一步探索了这一发现。在埃塞俄比亚，阿姆哈拉人大多是基督徒，奥罗莫人大多是穆斯林。自民族联邦制在该国诞生以来，通过建立民族地区国家，民族特性被赋予领土。因此，对个人和群体与空间互动和创造空间的方式的理解，对于解决现有的种族和宗教社区间的紧张关系至关重要。亚的斯亚贝巴提供了这项研究的背景，因为它的多样性、社会变化率和作为族裔联邦主义体系中未定义的种族的独特地位。这项研究借鉴了空间地理学的认识论，以拓宽其目前领土基础上对冲突中的空间研究的理解。列斐伏尔(1991)的空间关系理论将空间定义为通过表征和概念产生的空间，构成了本文的理论框架。研究将通过文献回顾、档案研究和对生活在经历暴力的社区中的个人的访谈来进行，通过这些研究，将观察冲突倾向社会中的空间谈判以及空间对城市空间中种族和宗教紧张的影响。

Quantitative research suggests that armed conflicts aremore likely to occur in countries where ethnic and religiousidentities overlap (Basedau et al., 2011). This researchproject probes this finding further through qualitativeinvestigation of current tensions in Ethiopia, where mostAmhara are Christian and most Oromo are Muslim. Sincethe dawn of ethnic federalism in the country, ethnicidentities have been rendered onto territory through theestablishment of ethnic regional states. An understandingof the way that individuals and groups interact with andproduce space, then, is vital in resolving existing ethnic andreligious inter-community tensions. Addis Ababa providesthe backdrop for this research, due to its diversity, high rateof societal change and unique status as ethnicallyundefined within the ethnic federalist system.This research draws from epistemologies of spatiality ingeography to broaden the understanding of space inconflict studies from its current territorial base. HenriLefebvre's (1991) relational theory of space, which definesspace as produced through representation and conception,forms the theoretical framework of this thesis. Researchwill be conducted through literature review, archivalresearch and interviews of individuals living inneighbourhoods experiencing violence, through which willbe observed the negotiation of space in conflict-pronesocieties and the impact of spatiality on ethnic andreligious tensions in urban space.