Making sense of Ethiopia's Tigray conflict

On the importance of understanding the historical origins of the conflict and potential paths to lasting peace

I: Searching for heroes and villains

When the history of the Tigray conflict in Ethiopia is written, it will not portray the majority of journalists and analysts who covered it in a good light. Many took sides, cast their favored elite protagonists as heroes, and went about moralizing about the war as if it was a contest between evil incarnate and righte…