Lidet Tadesse is an analyst and peacebuilding practitioner whose work focuses on African peace and security, and African multilateral approaches to peace and security through the African Union, IGAD and others.  She’s interested in regional dynamics within the Horn of Africa and the Horn’s relationship with external actors (EU, China, Gulf states etc). She works at the European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM), based in the Netherlands. Lidet has been a regular teacher on the RVI Horn of Africa course and advises RVI on Ethiopia.