Rationale, Utility & Founding Independent Policy Think Tanks

Ethiopia: Rationale,

Utility & Founding Independent

Policy Think Tanks

A Primer for founding independent home grown think tanks for Societal and Political Development in Ethiopia

Public Lecture - Respublica Literaria – Vol. IV No XXX, CXXI, MMXV

Costantinos Berhutesfa Costantinos, PhD

Professor of Public Policy, School of Graduate Studies,

College of Business and Economics, AAU

Abstract

Think tanks continually remodel, expand, advance, renovate, cultivate and develop mighty economies even when their models are doing well. Their brand of enterprise appears to have something going for it—so it may seem ill natured, or outright wicked, to wonder how much better such nations might do if their think tanks really tried hard. Independent private sector think tanks that execute highly qualified research and policy reflection are indispensable elements for partaking in modernity and globalisation.  It is the fundamental assertion of this dialogue starter think piece that learning about and appreciating one's rights, duties, obligations and responsibilities as a citizen and the immediate rules, laws and governance structures within which Ethiopians exercise citizenship is the first and fundamental step in human security and development. The development of cultural democracy promises the emergence of a unique trait of citizens, promising ethnic divergence and détente, and achieving human security and development, subject to intellectual leadership of think tanks. Further, they determine the development of state corporate strategic plans for the 21^st Century, capacity for policy and strategic harmonization, knowledge management systems, creating and retaining critical human skills, and a research compass reading that zeroes on introduction of the concept of futuristic talk and thinking gender equality, human rights in a society in transformation and communities of practice. In the interminable faculty of think tanks to innovate and unquenchable desire to reinvent, developed nations reap the developmental booty of an exceedingly proactive and skilled entrepreneurial leadership well informed by think tanks. Ethiopia must finally mount itself on an irreversible trajectory to instilling that culture of pluralism and dialogue -- to build a self-governing society and self-reliant society out of the vestiges of centuries of authoritarianism.

Key words: Independent Think Tanks, Research, Dialogue, Policy Reflection,

See article here or https://www.academia.edu/28314628/Ethiopia_Rationale_Utility_and_Founding_Independent_Policy_Think_Tanks