AIGAD holds Electoral Governance Book Project Workshop
Ethiopian Civil Service University African Institute of Governance and Development in collaboration with Fredric Elbert Stiftung organized workshop entitled “Electoral Governance Book Project Workshop; Leveraging Electoral Governance in Africa; Normative Conversation” on October 25, 2018 at ECSU, Development Learning Center.
Dr. Birhanu Beyene, Director for African Institute of Governance and Development, in his opening remarks welcomed the participants and briefed about the Book Project. In his explanation, African Institution of Governance and Development addresses intellectual challenges of governance and development in the region and in the continent. There is no development without good governance. Governance is also part of democratic system by which power is transferred by election. By this, we started this book project to think about the conceptualization of elections that have been conducted in the last two decades, he added.
He also noted that Africa has entertained four hundred twenty three different types of elections within fifteen years. At this point election has become very important for democratization process and good governance and we will have to think about reviewing and researching how election would be governed to have the desired goal. To deal with this perception, we started this book project. This is a timely project and focuses on a normative conversation on the process and planned to have up to five volumes, one volume each year. This workshop is a review validation workshop to get comments, suggestions, ideas of the reviewers and serious recommendation, Dr. Birhanu added.
The workshop was organized with a purpose to accelerate, widen and deepen honest conversation in the improvement of electoral governance, to facilitate research based knowledge, publication and good practices. In the workshop four papers were presented by scholars and factors determining electoral outcome, talking disputed electoral violence and conflicts, electoral anger management and post electoral stability and other election related issues were raised and the house discussed on them.
The workshop was sponsored by Fredric Elbert Stiftung, non-profit German foundation committed to the advancement of both socio-political and economic development in the spirit of social democracy, through education, research and international cooperation.