About Global Amhara Knowledge Hub

Global Amhara Knowledge Hub was founded in 2026 by Amhara scholars and professionals, in Ethiopia and the diaspora. It documents, analyses and advocates, in English and Amharic, with every claim sourced and dated.

Who we are

Global Amhara Knowledge Hub (Amharic: ዓለም አቀፍ የአማራ የዕውቀት ማዕከል) was founded in 2026 by members of the Amhara community in Ethiopia and across the diaspora. They are academics, lawyers, journalists, health and humanitarian professionals, and community organisers. Our motto is Knowledge · Policy · Strategy · Impact.

Global Amhara Knowledge Hub is a working name. The organisation is in its founding stage and is not yet registered as a legal entity. Until it is registered, Global Amhara Knowledge Hub neither solicits nor accepts donations.

Why we exist

Since 2023, Amhara civilians have lived through armed conflict, mass detention, displacement and the loss of schools and health care. Since September 2026 they have also been caught up in a renewed war in northern Ethiopia. Much of what happens to them goes unrecorded, or is recorded in ways that are hard to find, verify or cite. For a short sourced overview, see What is happening in Amhara.

Our purpose is to build strategic consensus across the Amhara community in order to:

bring the crisis facing Amhara people to public and international attention, and set out a way forward; and
develop practical policy proposals and advocacy strategies.

From evidence to outcome

Our work follows one chain, and each step depends on the one before it:

መረጃ → ጥናት → ትንታኔ → ፖሊሲ → ስትራቴጂ → ተግባር → ውጤት

Data → Research → Analysis → Policy → Strategy → Action → Impact

We start from what can be shown. We do not ask anyone to act on claims we cannot source.

How we work

A Board of Directors governs the organisation and speaks for it. Official Statements, Atrocity Alerts, Open Letters and Positions are issued by the Board. Only the Board adopts, amends or retires a Position. See the Board.
Advisory councils, which will advise the Board on expertise and strategy, are being constituted.
Internal working groups do the substantive work: research, drafting and review. Their subjects include culture and heritage, media, law and justice, transitional justice, outreach and the diaspora, geopolitics, human rights, technology and security, economy and livelihoods, and education. On this site these subjects appear as topics. The working groups themselves are internal and are not named in public.
One voice. Everything is published under one name, Global Amhara Knowledge Hub. Institutional items carry the Board's authority. Analysis, briefs and explainers carry the name of their author or of our editorial team. Unless the Board adopts them, they are not Board positions.

What we publish

We publish statements, alerts and positions; analysis, explainers and policy briefs; and episodes of Amhara Media Network. Every item carries:

an "as of" date;
a persistent identifier;
numbered sources, each graded Confirmed, Fair, Contested or Single-source.

Identifiers currently begin with "ICAI-", from an earlier working name of the organisation; they will change once, when the organisation is registered.

English is the canonical text, and every item has an Amharic edition on the same identifier. Amharic follows within 72 hours for statements, positions, alerts and Board editorials; until then, the Amharic page shows the English text with a notice that a translation is pending. How we grade evidence and use terms such as "war crimes" or "genocide" is set out in Methodology & ethics.

What we do and do not do

We do:

document and analyse, drawing on others' published data and naming its source;
state the Board's positions and address them to the institutions that can act;
protect all civilians in what we publish: we report harm to civilians by any party, including Amhara armed actors.

We do not:

collect testimony, footage, evidence or victims' identities;
investigate, arrest, prosecute or provide legal aid;
align with any armed group, or endorse any group's military or political aims.

Anyone who needs to report an incident should use the organisations listed on our Report an Incident page. They have the mandate and the safeguards to handle it. Please do not send testimony, evidence or personal safety information to us.

Editorial independence and corrections

Independence. Editorial decisions are made under our Editorial standards. Every item names who issued it and who approved it. Until the organisation is registered, we neither solicit nor accept donations.
Conflicts of interest are declared to the editorial board. Members publish under their own names unless a documented safety risk justifies a pseudonym.
Corrections. These are made in public. A corrected item says what changed and when, and substantive corrections are listed in the corrections log. Atrocity Alerts are changed only by numbered updates.
Permanence. Once published, a page keeps its address. If it is superseded or withdrawn, it says so and links to the current version.

Amhara Media Network (AMN)

Amhara Media Network is a channel of Global Amhara Knowledge Hub on YouTube. It hosts discussion with experts, community voices and guests. Panelists and guests speak for themselves, and their views are not Board positions. The Board's positions are published only on this website. Each episode has its own page on this site, with show notes and the names of those taking part. See AMN episodes.

Contact

For general, non-sensitive enquiries, see the Press Room. Media enquiries: amn@global-amhara.org.

Boilerplate

Global Amhara Knowledge Hub is an independent organisation of Amhara scholars and professionals, in Ethiopia and the diaspora, founded in 2026. It documents, analyses and advocates on the situation of Amhara people, and publishes sourced, dated statements, positions and research in English and Amharic at global-amhara.org.