Hagos Niguse Sibhat
Hagos Niguse Sibhat is a PhD candidate and Associate Fellow at the Research Department Intrastate Conflict, with a research focus on the role of media in ethnic conflict. His research interests include political communication, post-colonialism, human rights, peacebuilding, social media and social movements, and the political economy of media, geopolitics and media, particularly in Eastern Africa and the Red Sea region.
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CV
| since 2022
Associate Fellow at PRIF
Doctoral Candidate in Political Sciences at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt/M.
| 2018–2020
Directorate Director for News and Programs at Tigray Mass Media Agency, Ethiopia
| 2017–2018
Lecturer, Directorate Director for Corporate Communication and Marketing at Aksum University, Ethiopia
| 2015–2017
Master of Arts in Global Political Economy at the University of Kassel, Germany
| 2011–2015
Radio Journalist at Dimtsi Weyane Tigray, Ethiopia
| 2012–2014
Master of Arts in Development Studies at Mekelle University, Ethiopia
| 2008–2011
Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and Communication at Bahir-Dar University, Ethiopia
PhD Project
This project aims to conduct an intensive and comprehensive investigation concerning the state and private-owned media’s role in ethnic conflicts in Ethiopia.
The project focuses on two main research questions: The first question focuses on how the media set-agenda and frame ethnic conflicts. At the same time, the second one deals with the factors that shape media behavior and possibly explain variation between different media outlets.
Based on an in-depth study on Ethiopia, this project will further theory-building on media’s role in ethnic conflicts and contribute original empirical findings on an important and recent case.
In answering these two research questions, the planned project also aims at identifying policy recommendations as to how the political elite might influence the media so that it contributes to fostering peace rather than ethnic strife.
Publications
- Spreading Hatred: A study of Facebook in Ethiopia
| 2018
Niguse Sibhat, Hagos (2018): Spreading Hatred: A study of Facebook in Ethiopia, Global Media Review (GMR), 1: 2, 1–13.
Further Activities
- Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace