Hizkias Assefa
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Hizkias Assefa | |
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 Hizkias Assefa teaches a class at Eastern Mennonite University's Summer Peacebuilding Institute | |
| Born | 1948 (age 77–78) |
| Education | LLB, Haile Selassie I University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; LLM, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois; M.A. Economics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; M.P.A., Ph.D., Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
| Occupations | peacebuilding, conflict analyst |
| Known for | Reconciliation and Peacebuilding Work |
Hizkias Assefa (born 1948) is a conflict mediator known widely in Africa for his non-aligned work as a consultant who has mediated in most major conflict situations in sub-Saharan Africa in the past 20 years, as well as in a dozen countries elsewhere. He is also a professor of conflict studies. Of Ethiopian origin, he is based in Nairobi, Kenya. He was one of the founding faculty members in 1994 of the Conflict Transformation Program (now the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding) at Eastern Mennonite University.[1]
Hizkias Assefa was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in 1948. He remained there into his early adulthood and studied law at Haile Selassie I University in Addis Ababa. After graduating he worked as a lawyer in Addis Ababa until 1973. At this point he obtained a student visa for the United States and left Ethiopia to continue his education and to avoid the violence brought about by the military dictatorship known as the Derg. He received his LLM from Northwestern University in Chicago, his M.A. in economics and his Master's in public management and Ph.D. in public and international affairs from the University of Pittsburgh. He is married and has two daughters.[2]
