Ethiopia and Eritrea are neighbours in the Horn of Africa, sharing a border that has seen bloodshed and strife in the past. The Badme border warfare, which has resulted in thousands of deaths in both nations, starvation and drought, backing for rebel groups destabilising each other's regimes, and instability in the Horn, is the most remembered and extended war. Despite the fact that they share ethnic groupings, languages, customs, and so on, their common legacies have resulted in quite diverse political, economic, and historical consequences. In the year 2000, the world community was able to persuade both governments to embrace international arbitration. Arbitration, on the other hand, was a legal option that neither country pursued. Both nations signed a Memorandum of Understanding, a political step, in 2018, and have had a largely peaceful coexistence till 2022. This study examines the elements that fueled the war, the outcome of the 2018 Peace Agreement, which restored peace to both countries after decades of hostility, and how political goodwill played a critical part in the resolution of the conflict. In-depth desk review research, text analysis and interpretation, and official documents were used in this article. The study used an interdisciplinary approach to its theoretical and methodological approach. This research argues that political goodwill contributed to the 2018 Peace Agreement, as opposed to the 'external' 2000 arbitration and Algiers Agreement, when the parties 'agreed' but did not 'consent' to adopt legal binding measures. Political goodwill led to the establishment of the enforcement system and breach consequences for the 2018 Agreement, demonstrating that political ownership and leadership promote peace.
Author(s) Details:Sarah M. Musau,
Diplomacy and International Affairs, Euclid University, Bangui, Central African Republic
Please see the link here: https://stm.bookpi.org/RDASS-V3/article/view/6745
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