Alemayehu Fentaw Weldemariam

Alemayehu Fentaw Weldemariam is a scholar of peace and conflict resolution, constitutional design and constitutional law, and constitutional and political theory with a regional focus on the Horn of Africa. He has published extensively on the Horn of Africa’s regional peace and security, Ethiopian constitutional law, and foreign affairs and national security policy, bringing together legal analysis, political theory, and historical inquiry.

He holds LLB from Addis Ababa University, MS from the Carter School of Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University in Arlington, Virginia, where he also studied philosophy, and MA from the European University for Peace Studies, where he studied with Johan Galtung at the Friedensburg Schlaining (Peace Castle) in Stadtschlaining, Austria. He was a Fellow of the Salzburg Global Seminar in Peacemaking and Peacebuilding at Schloss Leopoldskron in Salzburg and read the Great Books at St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland.

He has taught various courses in law and international affairs at Jimma University and Mekelle University in Ethiopia, at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, in the Government Department at Suffolk University in Boston, and at Indiana University's Maurer School of Law. He is currently a doctoral candidate at Indiana University, with a major field in constitutional law and constitutional design and minor fields in political philosophy and African Studies.

He can be reached at: andreasalemayehu@gmail.com or aweldema@iu.edu.