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
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