Alex de Waal
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Sep 25, 2026
Alex de WaalGUEST
Young people are not joining into this conflict by choice, but they are forcibly recruited.
Rebecca KesbyHOST
Well, earlier I spoke to Alex de Waal.
Rebecca KesbyHOST
He's Executive, uh, Director of the World Peace Foundation at Tufts University in Massachusetts in the US, and he's an expert on Tigray.
Rebecca KesbyHOST
I asked him first what's his understanding of what's actually happening on the ground.
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Berhane GebrechristosGUEST
That has to be recognized.
Rebecca KesbyHOST
So that was Berhane Gebrechristos there, former official spokesperson for the TPLF based in the USA.
Rebecca KesbyHOST
And, uh, Alex de Waal is still with us.
Rebecca KesbyHOST
Alex, he mentioned there genocide.
Carolyn BeelerHOST
The developments threatened to unravel a fragile 2022 peace agreement that ended two years of war in a region already beset by conflict.
Carolyn BeelerHOST
For the latest, we called up Alex de Waal, the executive director of the World Peace Foundation.
Alex de WaalGUEST
Well, this has been a sort of creeping war for the last six months.
Alex de WaalGUEST
There was, as you mentioned, a peace agreement at the end of 2022 that ended in an extremely devastating war between the central government and the state government in Tigray.