What We Do

Activities

Organize conversations, lectures and discussions concerning and not limited to:

  • Their tenure in leadership
  • local and international developments that posed challenges to peace and development
  • Current peace, livelihood and development challenges and the way forward
  • Ethiopian farmers/peasants, pastoralists right to land, livelihood and economic autonomy
  • Democratizing the armed forces through equal opportunity to multiple ethnicities
  • Education, traditional agriculture and the future of Ethiopia’s underutilized crops
  • Are there lessons to be learnt from Ethiopia’s traditional polities regarding governance of the public and resources?
  • Will traditional livelihoods mellow the challenges climate change poses to the nation
  • The way forward to a sustainable nationhood
  • Pandemic coping capacity building
  • What means are available to build a climate smart population, climate smart settlements, climate smart infrastructure, etc.

 

Principles we observe

  • We believe in a civilized and dignified cultural expression
  • We believe that seniors in retirement can contribute to national wellbeing and transmission of heritage
  • We believe in the need to provide members the immunity and guarantee from prosecution for cases they are alleged to have violated during their tenure in power and for the uninhibited expression of their thoughts during their membership in this new institution.
  • We apply the Chatham House rules in all convenings of ECE:

“When a meeting, or part thereof, … participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s), nor that of any other participant, may be revealed”.

Membership

  • Former leader and their spouses
  • Popular and key political figures of each administration invited by each administration that has been in power (two from each).

Alternate members will be invited to apply for membership including:

  • Academics
  • Men and women Elders of traditional governance institutions (2 from each region)
  • Invited Christian and Islamic leaders (one from each with assistants)
  • Invited indigenous religious leaders
  • Prominent business figures
  • Rights and other civil society organizations
  • Leaders of political organizations

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