weldmariam has taught various courses at jimma university law school, including constitutional law, criminal law, jurisprudence, and law of traders and business organizations. he has also served as the founding editor of the "jimma university journal of law" and was head of the research and publications office. besides, he has served as project officer with the organization for social justice in ethiopia, legal advisor to the ethiopian chamber of commerce, and regional director of the ethiopian global initiative, contributor to the "horn of africa bulletin", a monthly publication of the life and peace institute, based in uppsala, sweden, editor-in-chief of addis fortune, and a consultant on regional and national peace and security. weldemariam has researched and published extensively on ethiopian law, politics, national security and foreign policy, as well as regional peace and security. moreover, he sits on the international board of the us-based ethiopian global initiative and the kigali-based great lakes peace network foundation and is also a member of the paris-based global editors network, as well as a new science of virtues, which is a project of the university of chicago, and also is an associate of the jethro institute for good governance, a london-based consulting organization he currently serves as a peer reviewer for such prestigious journals as the melbourne journal of international law and the journal of borderlands studies.