This report would not have been possible without the funding support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands. The authors are especially grateful to this study’s participants, who were willing to share their views on the ongoing transition in Ethiopia. Special thanks go to Luuk Vondervoort, Alex Gerbrandy, Quirine Timmerman, and Joost Vos (Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs) for their insights and support. We would also like to thank the reviewers – Dereje Feyissa Dori (Life and Peace Institute) and Anette Hoffmann (Clingendael) – who invested their time and efforts in providing comments and suggestions for this report. Additionally, we would like to thank Mostafa Sadiqi and Aisha Hassan.