KJETIL TRONVOLL is Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at Bjørknes University College, Director of Oslo Analytica policy research and advisory company, and a former Professor of Human Rights at the University of Oslo. His books include, with Daniel R. Mekonnen, The African Garrison State: Human Rights & Political Development in Eritrea (2017).
Future works may fill in gaps and stretch the time frame to include
the end of the war and the diplomatic road that led to the Peace
Agreement of December 12, 2000, but few will match Brothers at War
for its objectivity, access to key players, and historicity. If the
Eritrean-Ethiopian war puzzles you, buy this book.
*AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW*
The authors of Brothers at War provide a crisp and informed account
of the circumstances and events that led to the tragic conflict.
Writing in fast-paced prose, they succeed in making sense of a war
that has been universally condemned as senseless.
*IJAHS*
Suffice to say that this book is essential reading and very helpful
in elucidating much of the background to this tragic conflict and
the peculiar autocratic leaderships that led to it.
*AFRICAN AFFAIRS*
...the book does on the whole provide a useful introduction to the
issues surrounding the border war. In fact, the substantive text
itself occupies only 101 pages; the remaining third of the volume
being numerous appendices, comprising significant governmental
documents concerning the war and attempts to resolve it ... As
such, the text does usefully bring together a wide range of
material: internet sourced materials, periodicals, government
propaganda, and interviews with Eritreans and Ethiopians, all of
which are useful for those with little background knowledge of the
conflict ... the text does present both the Eritrean and the
Ethiopian positions on several issues ... the authors provide a
particularly good account of the failure of international diplomacy
- and of the relative lack of international resources and attention
given to these negotiations, compared with European conflicts.
*DEMOCRACY & DEVELOPMENT*
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