The course is designed to familiarize learners with conflict and conflict resolution trends and situations in the Horn of Africa, it briefly indicate learners where the horn founds in terms of its historical relations with the Middle East, Europe and Great Lakes region in Africa and the repercussions and legacies resulted to the Horn politics. It gives much emphasis on the nature of conflicts in terms of conflict system, levels, causes, actors, factors and consequences of the conflict. It further examines the formal and informal institutional approaches of resolutions mechanisms and indicates learners synthesize the fundamental reasons behind challenges to resolve the inter-related nature of the conflict and provide plausible solution scenarios.