Event Date: March 4, 2022 - 12:00 to 1:00pm EST
Location: online

Presented by CIPS and the Security Studies Network

What is the role of Yemeni actors in peace-making in Yemen? Much international debate and analysis focuses on the role of regional and international powers and of the UN, but the role of local actors – including civil society, tribes, in addition to the Diaspora – tends to be neglected. In this panel, Nadwa Al-Dawsari and Farea Al-Muslimi will therefore discuss the role of these and other Yemeni actors in the prospects for peace in Yemen in 2022. 

Speakers:

Nadwa Al-Dawsari is a researcher and conflict practitioner with twenty years of field experience in Yemen. She is a Nonresident scholar with the Middle East Institute. She was formerly a non-resident senior fellow at the Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) in Washington DC, Yemen Country Director for the Center for Civilians in Conflict, and the Founding Director for Partners Yemen, and a senior program manager with the National Democratic Institute in Yemen. Her published work can be found in her blog yementribalvoices.org 

Farea Al-Muslimi is chairman and co-founder of the Sanaa Center for Strategic Studies. He is also an Associate Fellow at Chatham House. He previously worked for the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut and the Middle East Institute in Washington, D.C. as a visiting scholar where he covered Yemen and the Gulf.

Chair:

Thomas Juneau, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa, and V-P CASIS