Acknowledgments
I would like to thank the Moshe Dayan Center for the Middle Eastern and African Studies, the School of History and the Department of Middle Eastern and African History, all at the Faculty of Humanities at Tel Aviv University, for their financial and academic support in this research. I would like also to thank IGAD’s officials at Addis Ababa and researchers from the African Union Peace and Security Programme, Addis Ababa University, for their cooperation, information and support. Special thanks to my editor, Renée Hochman, for her dedication, patience and professional work.Above all, I would like to thank my beloved family for their intellectual and spiritual support- to my husband Eyal, my daughters and their spouses- Noa and Yogev, Mika and Ariel, Tamara, and the new great addition- my granddaughter Alma.