Addis Ababa (AMECO)– Ethiopia has concluded a four-year national dialogue initiative involving 4,000 delegates, claiming the process has established a historic peace framework designed to break long-standing political grievances and end cycles of armed conflict.
According to a statement issued by the Government Communication Service, the multi-year process—which began with an extensive four-year preparatory phase—aims to replace traditional “winner-loser” zero-sum politics with an inclusive approach to governance and state-building.
The government described the conference as a foundational effort to move away from resolving historic state-building contradictions through force, seeking instead to consolidate a resilient, multinational democratic state grounded in continuous dialogue.
Reframing the peace process around homegrown solutions, officials highlighted the initiative as evidence of African-led conflict resolution, noting that the resulting framework could serve as a model across the continent.
The statement added that the establishment of the dialogue platform eliminates any justification for political factions to resort to violence, asserting that no group can now claim a lack of forum for peaceful discussion.
Reaffirming its commitment to the mechanism, the Ethiopian government pledged to maintain the open dialogue as a permanent peace framework, undertaking to transition the national political arena away from armed force towards reconciliation and the primacy of ideas.
