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种族和宗教身份重叠的国家（Basedau等人，2011年）。这个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讨了这一发现，在埃塞俄比亚，大多数阿姆哈拉人是基督徒，大多数奥罗莫人是穆斯林。自从该国民族联邦制的曙光，民族身份已被赋予到领土上通过建立民族地区国家。因此，理解个人和群体与空间互动和创造空间的方式，对于解决现有的种族和宗教社区间的紧张关系至关重要。阿迪斯为本研究提供了背景，由于其多样性，高社会变革率和独特的地位，作为种族联邦制度内的ethnicallundefined。本研究借鉴了空间性ingeography的认识论，以扩大其目前的领土基础上的空间冲突研究的理解。列斐伏尔（HenriLefebvre，1991）的关系空间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、档案研究和对经历过暴力的居民的访谈来进行，通过这些研究来观察冲突社会中的空间协商以及空间性对城市空间中种族和宗教紧张关系的影响。

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.