The ongoing conflict has resulted in thousands of people fleeing over the border into Sudan. Sudan itself is going through a fragile transition after the revolution in late 2018 and the country is in the midst of an economic crisis. If the conflict escalates further in Tigray and the rest of the country, many fear that it could destabilize the whole of the Horn of Africa. What would be the regional implications of a war in Ethiopia and how is the continental and international community responding? What are the measures that need to take place for a peaceful solution to the conflict?

In the panel:

- William Davison, Senior Analyst for Ethiopia in International Crisis Group. In 2018 he founded Ethiopia Insight website. William was Bloomberg's Ethiopia correspondent from 2010 until 2017 and has also published in The Guardian, Foreign Policy, Al Jazeera, Christian Science Monitor, and other international media.

- Kjetil Tronvoll is the Director of Oslo Analytica, as well as Professor and Research Director of Peace and Conflict studies at Bjorknes University College. Tronvoll has undertaken long-term anthropological fieldworks in Eritrea, Ethiopia and Zanzibar.

- Asafa Jalata, Professor of Sociology and Global and Africana Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Research expertise is, among others, human rights, nationalism and race and ethnicity. His research concentration has been on Oromia, the Oromo country, and its interactions with Ethiopia and the modern world system.

- Stig Jarle Hansen, Professor at the Faculty of Landscape and Society International Environment and Development Studies, Noragric. Hansen works primarily within the fields of organized crime; religion and politics in the wider Red Sea region, Yemen, Somalia, Eritrea, Ethiopia and Kenya.

- Juweria Ali, doctoral candidate in politics and international relations in London's Westminster University. Is from the Ogaden region of Ethiopia and has written on the Somali region.