H.E. Ambassador Grum Abay delivered a public lecture entitled “Ethiopia’s Socio-Economic Development and Peace: A Mutually Reinforcing Process?’’ at the KU Leuven, today the 5th of March 2020.
In his lecture, Ambassador Grum extensively discussed the socio-political and economic paths through which Ethiopia has passed in its long history of statehood as well as the current political, social as well as economic reforms that the country has been going through in the past two years.
The lecture was opened with an introductory remark by Professor Peter Lievens, Vice Rector of International Policy at the University of KU-Leuven. Professor Lievens praised the existing academic cooperation between the University of KU-Leuven and various higher educational institutes in Ethiopia and expressed the University’s interest to further strengthen the cooperation.
Furthermore, Professor Karen Vancanpen Hout, who has been engaged in various research and partnership programs in Ethiopia for over a decade, presented the research that she has been working on in Northern Ethiopia regarding soil degradation and conservation.
The public lecture was attended by Academic heads of the University, Professors as well as students of the University.
