Teklehaymanot G Meskel Weldemichel
About
I am a human geographer with a research interest in topics around political ecology, environmental justice, conservation and development politics and policies, state violence, and the broader discourses of sustainable development.
My current research work, among others, focuses on the analysis of the translation and localization of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into Norwegian urban planning and practice. Through my current research project, I hope to contribute to a better understanding of the challenges and shortcomings of translating global-scale global goals into local planning and practice.
Research
Publications
Op-Eds:
Weldemichel, Teklehaymanot (2023) “We are alive, but we are not living,” Tigray Genocide survivors’ plea to the world – Tghat
Mehta, Lyla; Weldemichel, Teklehaymanot (2023) Marking the third year of the Tigray war - Institute of Development Studies (ids.ac.uk)
Weldemichel, Teklehaymanot (2023) ICHREE report good start but nowhere near enough – Tghat
Weldemichel, Teklehaymanot (2023) Opinion: USAID, WFP aid suspension in Tigray will hinder peace process | Devex
Weldemichel, Teklehaymanot (2023) State Department watered down Tigray atrocity crimes – Tghat
Weldemichel, Teklehaymanot (2023) Norge må ikke stå på feil side av historien i opprydningen etter Tigray-krigen (panoramanyheter.no)
Weldemichel, Teklehaymanot (2023) Secretary Blinken’s Ethiopia visit: Celebration of impunity? – Tghat
Weldemichel, Teklehaymanot (2023) Tigray has been made a testing ground for future warfare and the limits of international laws and norms – Tghat
Weldemichel, Teklehaymanot (2023) What does Eritrea’s ruler’s statement in Nairobi tell us about justice and accountability for human rights violations in Tigray – Tghat
Gebreananaye, Meron; Weldemichel, Teklehaymanot (2023) The Pretoria Peace Agreement - The Cosmopolitan Globalist
Weldemichel, Teklehaymanot (2022) The Internet Governance Forum: a spectacle of the United Nations’ complicity in the Tigray Genocide
Weldemichel, Teklehaymanot; Mehta, Lyla (2022) Krisen er langt fra over i Tigray
Mehta, Lyla: Weldemichel, Teklehaymanot (2022) Marking the second year of the Tigray war
Weldemichel, Teklehaymanot; Gebreananaye, Meron (2022) Tigray is Africa’s Ukraine: We Must Build Pan-African Solidarity.
Weldemichel, T.; Mehta, L.; Gebregziabher, M.; Rannestad, M.M. (2022) Tigrayan farmers need urgent help to face a war-induced famine
2023
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Weldemichel, Teklehaymanot G Meskel.
(2023)
Opinion: USAID, WFP aid suspension in Tigray will hinder peace process.
Devex
Short communication
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Weldemichel, Teklehaymanot G Meskel.
(2023)
Norge må ikke stå på feil side av historien i opprydningen etter Tigray-krigen.
Panaroma
Reader opinion piece
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Vela Almeida, Diana Raquel;
Weldemichel, Teklehaymanot G Meskel.
(2023)
how does political ecology help us understand the social implications of the 30×30 conservation initiative?.
Current Conservation
Short communication
2022
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Weldemichel, Teklehaymanot G Meskel;
Mehta, Lyla;
Gebregziabher, Mulugeta;
Rannestad, Meley Mekonen.
(2022)
Tigrayan farmers need urgent help to face a war-induced famine.
Briefs
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Weldemichel, Teklehaymanot G Meskel;
Gebreananaye, Meron.
(2022)
Tigray is Africa’s Ukraine: We Must Build Pan-African Solidarity.
Briefs
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Mehta, Lyla;
Weldemichel, Teklehaymanot G Meskel.
(2022)
Marking the second year of the Tigray war.
Briefs
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Weldemichel, Teklehaymanot G Meskel;
Mehta, Lyla.
(2022)
Krisen er langt fra over i Tigray.
Briefs
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Bühne, Henrike Schulte to;
Weir, Doug;
Nyssen, Jan;
Weldemichel, Teklehaymanot.
(2022)
Tigray in Ethiopia was an environmental success story – then the war undid decades of regreening.
The Conversation
Popular scientific article
2021
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Weldemichel, Teklehaymanot.
(2021)
Making land grabbable: Stealthy dispossessions by conservation in Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania.
Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space
Academic article
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Weldemichel, Teklehaymanot G..
(2021)
Inventing hell: how the Ethiopian and Eritrean regimes produced famine in Tigray.
Human Geography
Academic article
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Weldemichel, Teklehaymanot;
Emnet, Negash;
Jan, Nyssen;
Gebrekirstos Gebreselassie, Gebremeskel;
Amare, Teklay.
(2021)
Database: the Ethiopian public universities during the Tigray war.
Database
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Weldemichel, Teklehaymanot.
(2021)
The environmental cost of the War on Tigray.
Briefs
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Weldemichel, Teklehaymanot.
(2021)
Life in contested lands: The discourses and practices of mainstream conservation in the Greater Serengeti-Mara Ecosystem.
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Doctoral dissertation
2020
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Cavanagh, Connor Joseph;
Weldemichel, Teklehaymanot;
Benjaminsen, Tor A.
(2020)
Gentrifying the African Landscape: The Performance and Powers of for-Profit Conservation on Southern Kenya’s Conservancy Frontier.
Annals of the American Association of Geographers
Academic article
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Weldemichel, Teklehaymanot.
(2020)
Othering Pastoralists, State Violence, and the Remaking of Boundaries in Tanzania’s Militarised Wildlife Conservation Sector.
Antipode
Academic article
2019
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Weldemichel, Teklehaymanot;
Lein, Haakon.
(2019)
"Fencing is our last stronghold before we lose it all." A political ecology of fencing around the Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya.
Land Use Policy
Academic article
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Weldemichel, Teklehaymanot.
(2019)
Guns, fire and violence in the name of conservation in Loliondo, Tanzania.
Briefs
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Weldemichel, Teklehaymanot;
Benjaminsen, Tor A;
Cavanagh, Connor Joseph;
Lein, Haakon.
(2019)
Conservation: Beyond population growth: response to Ogutu et al.
Science
Short communication
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Weldemichel, Teklehaymanot;
Lein, Haakon.
(2019)
Land division, conservancies, fencing and its implications in the Maasai Mara, Kenya.
European Commission
European Commission
Report
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Weldemichel, Teklehaymanot;
Benjaminsen, Tor A;
Cavanagh, Connor Joseph;
Lein, Haakon.
(2019)
Conservation: beyond population growth.
Science
Short communication
2017
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Weldemichel, Teklehaymanot;
Etana, Mesele Abera.
(2017)
The Need for Transformation: Local Perception of Climate Change, Vulnerability and Adaptation Versus ‘Humanitarian’ Response in Afar Region, Ethiopia.
Springer
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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Weldemichel, Teklehaymanot.
(2017)
Fencing-in oneself: Understanding the fencing crisis in Maasai Mara, Kenya.
Briefs
2016
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Weldemichel, Teklehaymanot.
(2016)
Climate change, vulnerability and adaptation versus ‘humanitarian’ responsein Afar region, Ethiopia.
Briefs
Journal publications
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Weldemichel, Teklehaymanot G Meskel.
(2023)
Opinion: USAID, WFP aid suspension in Tigray will hinder peace process.
Devex
Short communication
-
Weldemichel, Teklehaymanot G Meskel.
(2023)
Norge må ikke stå på feil side av historien i opprydningen etter Tigray-krigen.
Panaroma
Reader opinion piece
-
Vela Almeida, Diana Raquel;
Weldemichel, Teklehaymanot G Meskel.
(2023)
how does political ecology help us understand the social implications of the 30×30 conservation initiative?.
Current Conservation
Short communication
-
Bühne, Henrike Schulte to;
Weir, Doug;
Nyssen, Jan;
Weldemichel, Teklehaymanot.
(2022)
Tigray in Ethiopia was an environmental success story – then the war undid decades of regreening.
The Conversation
Popular scientific article
-
Weldemichel, Teklehaymanot.
(2021)
Making land grabbable: Stealthy dispossessions by conservation in Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania.
Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space
Academic article
-
Weldemichel, Teklehaymanot G..
(2021)
Inventing hell: how the Ethiopian and Eritrean regimes produced famine in Tigray.
Human Geography
Academic article
-
Cavanagh, Connor Joseph;
Weldemichel, Teklehaymanot;
Benjaminsen, Tor A.
(2020)
Gentrifying the African Landscape: The Performance and Powers of for-Profit Conservation on Southern Kenya’s Conservancy Frontier.
Annals of the American Association of Geographers
Academic article
-
Weldemichel, Teklehaymanot.
(2020)
Othering Pastoralists, State Violence, and the Remaking of Boundaries in Tanzania’s Militarised Wildlife Conservation Sector.
Antipode
Academic article
-
Weldemichel, Teklehaymanot;
Lein, Haakon.
(2019)
"Fencing is our last stronghold before we lose it all." A political ecology of fencing around the Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya.
Land Use Policy
Academic article
-
Weldemichel, Teklehaymanot;
Benjaminsen, Tor A;
Cavanagh, Connor Joseph;
Lein, Haakon.
(2019)
Conservation: Beyond population growth: response to Ogutu et al.
Science
Short communication
-
Weldemichel, Teklehaymanot;
Benjaminsen, Tor A;
Cavanagh, Connor Joseph;
Lein, Haakon.
(2019)
Conservation: beyond population growth.
Science
Short communication
Part of book/report
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Weldemichel, Teklehaymanot;
Etana, Mesele Abera.
(2017)
The Need for Transformation: Local Perception of Climate Change, Vulnerability and Adaptation Versus ‘Humanitarian’ Response in Afar Region, Ethiopia.
Springer
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Report
-
Weldemichel, Teklehaymanot.
(2021)
Life in contested lands: The discourses and practices of mainstream conservation in the Greater Serengeti-Mara Ecosystem.
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Doctoral dissertation
-
Weldemichel, Teklehaymanot;
Lein, Haakon.
(2019)
Land division, conservancies, fencing and its implications in the Maasai Mara, Kenya.
European Commission
European Commission
Report
PRODUKT
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Weldemichel, Teklehaymanot;
Emnet, Negash;
Jan, Nyssen;
Gebrekirstos Gebreselassie, Gebremeskel;
Amare, Teklay.
(2021)
Database: the Ethiopian public universities during the Tigray war.
Database
INFORMASJONSMATR
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Weldemichel, Teklehaymanot G Meskel;
Mehta, Lyla;
Gebregziabher, Mulugeta;
Rannestad, Meley Mekonen.
(2022)
Tigrayan farmers need urgent help to face a war-induced famine.
Briefs
-
Weldemichel, Teklehaymanot G Meskel;
Gebreananaye, Meron.
(2022)
Tigray is Africa’s Ukraine: We Must Build Pan-African Solidarity.
Briefs
-
Mehta, Lyla;
Weldemichel, Teklehaymanot G Meskel.
(2022)
Marking the second year of the Tigray war.
Briefs
-
Weldemichel, Teklehaymanot G Meskel;
Mehta, Lyla.
(2022)
Krisen er langt fra over i Tigray.
Briefs
-
Weldemichel, Teklehaymanot.
(2021)
The environmental cost of the War on Tigray.
Briefs
-
Weldemichel, Teklehaymanot.
(2019)
Guns, fire and violence in the name of conservation in Loliondo, Tanzania.
Briefs
-
Weldemichel, Teklehaymanot.
(2017)
Fencing-in oneself: Understanding the fencing crisis in Maasai Mara, Kenya.
Briefs
-
Weldemichel, Teklehaymanot.
(2016)
Climate change, vulnerability and adaptation versus ‘humanitarian’ responsein Afar region, Ethiopia.
Briefs
Teaching
Courses
Media
2022
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Popular scientific lectureWeldemichel, Teklehaymanot. (2022) Tigray: Nature-based solutions, conflict and resilience. CEOBS - Conflict and Environment Observatory CEOBS webinar: 2022-04-26 - 2022-04-26
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LectureWeldemichel, Teklehaymanot; Refstie, Hilde. (2022) Localizing the Sustainable Development Goals in Norwegian urban municipalities. Norwegian Geographical Society 2022-10-27 - 2022-10-28
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InterviewWeldemichel, Teklehaymanot. (2022) The war on Tigray with Teklehaymanot Weldemichel. https://open.spotify.com/episode/0P10wokyIacxBxd03ihnzu https://open.spotify.com/episode/0P10wokyIacxBxd03ihnzu [Internet] 2022-01-19
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InterviewBociaga, Robert; Weldemichel, Teklehaymanot. (2022) Maasai people say Tanzania is waging a campaign to drive them from their ancestral lands. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-maasai-people- https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-maasai-people- [Newspaper] 2022-04-01
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Popular scientific lectureWeldemichel, Teklehaymanot. (2022) Tigray siege and the humanitarian catastrophe. The Conflict and Environment Observatory Tigray: Nature-based solutions, conflict and resilience 2022-04-26 - 2022-04-26
2021
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InterviewWeldemichel, Teklehaymanot. (2021) Famine as a Weapon of War in Tigray. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIczpR45sVE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIczpR45sVE [Internet] 2021-12-02
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InterviewFriedman, Rai; Weldemichel, Teklehaymanot. (2021) I no longer call myself Ethiopian . https://open.spotify.com/show/77ff7KcbMFQLmj6YmU9Sgb https://open.spotify.com/show/77ff7KcbMFQLmj6YmU9Sgb [Internet] 2021-11-15
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InterviewWeldemichel, Teklehaymanot; Hjorthol, Lars Martin. (2021) Tigray-krigen: – En planlagt sultkatastrofe. https://www.bistandsaktuelt.no/nyheter/2021/tigray-krigen--e https://www.bistandsaktuelt.no/nyheter/2021/tigray-krigen--e [Internet] 2021-12-15
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LectureWeldemichel, Teklehaymanot. (2021) War, famine and the environment in Tigray. Cambridge Centre of African Studies Cambridge Centre of African Studies 2021 Seminar Series 2021-11-08 - 2021-11-08
2019
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InterviewWeldemichel, Teklehaymanot. (2019) BBC Focus on Africa program: On Land Issues in Kenya . https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w172w23zlvzf2z9 https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w172w23zlvzf2z9 [Radio] 2019-02-06
2018
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InterviewWeldemichel, Teklehaymanot. (2018) Das Ende der Freiheit?. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/das-ende-der-freiheit-roman-g https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/das-ende-der-freiheit-roman-g [Newspaper] 2018-02-05