Re-thinking the Ceasefire Process in Yemen’s Conflict

February 2022

The Yemen Policy Center (YPC) is pleased to invite you to a virtual discussion,

“Re-thinking the Ceasefire Process in Yemen’s Conflict”

on February 23th , 2022, from 11.00–12.30pm New York

(5.00–6.30pm Berlin; 7.00–8.30pm Yemen)

At this event, YPC Research Fellow, Hadil Al-Mowafak, along with International Crisis Group Senior Researcher, Peter Salisbury, will critically reflect on the UN-led peace process in Yemen, specifically the process of brokering a ceasefire. Al-Mowafak will present the research findings of a year-long project on increasing civil society engagement with the ceasefire process funded by the German Federal Foreign Office’s IFA Zivik funding program. The work highlights possibilities to address civil society’s exclusion from the peace process and their potential role in civilian harm monitoring within the context of a future ceasefire. Salisbury will present his insights from a year and a half of analysis on the economy’s role in Yemen’s conflict by exploring the prospects for brokering an economic ceasefire, especially given the current stalemate in the political process.

The event will be followed by a Q&A session.

Introduction:

A. Heather Coyne Office of the Special Envoy of the Secretary General to Yemen (OSESGY).

Moderator:

Adam Baron is an Advisor for Yemen at Humanitarian Dialogue Center.

Panelists:

Hadil Al-Mowafak became a Yemen Policy Center Research Fellow in 2020. In 2015, she joined Mwatana Organization as a researcher of human rights violations, documenting cases of civilian casualties, child soldiers, extrajudicial killings, arbitrary detention, and restrictions on journalistic freedoms. She holds a B.A in Political Science from Stanford University (2020).

Peter Salisbury is International Crisis Group’s Senior Analyst for Yemen. He has more than a decade of wide-ranging experience as a print, online, and broadcast journalist. He has published a series of highly regarded papers on Yemen for Chatham House, the London-headquartered think tank where he is also a senior consulting fellow.

Register for the event here

References :

^[1]YPC nationwide representative survey, April–July 2019. Data cited in this paper is drawn from this survey unless otherwise indicated.

^[2] UN News “Humanitarian crisis in Yemen remains the worst in the world, warns UN” Feb 2019. https://news.un.org/en/story/2019/02/1032811 (Accessed 3 March 2020).

^[3] Wadhah Al-Awlaqi and Maged Al-Madhaji, Rethinking Yemen’s economy: Local governance in Yemen amid conflict and instability, July 2018. https://devchampions.org/files/Rethinking_Yemens_Economy_No2_En.pdf (Accessed 8 March 2020); Mansour Rageh, Amal Nasser, and Farea Al-Muslimi, “Yemen without a Functioning Central Bank: The Loss of Basic Economic Stabilization and Accelerating Famine,” Sana’a Center for Strategic Studies, November 2016. http://sanaacenter.org/publications/main-publications/55 (Accessed 23 May 2018).

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^[5] Final report of the Panel of Experts on Yemen, addressed to the President of the Security Council, January 2020. https://undocs.org/S/2020/70 (Accessed 11 March 2020).

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^[7] Mareike Transfeld and Shaima Bin Othman, “The State of the Police in Western Yemen”, YPC research debrief, Yemen Polling Center, Research Debrief, January 2020. https://www.yemenpolling.org/4325/ (Accessed 16 February 2020).

^[8] Amnesty International, “Yemen: Fierce new offensive displaces tens of thousands of civilians from Hodeidah” May 2018. https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2018/05/yemen-fierce-new-offensive-displaces-tens-of-thousands-of-civilians-from-hodeidah/ (Accessed 5 March 2020).

^[9] Maged Sultan, Mareike Transfeld and Kamal Muqbil, “Formalizing the Informal State and Non-State Security Providers in Government-Controlled Taiz City,” YPC Policy Report, Yemen Polling Center, July 2019. https://yemenpolling.org/advocacy/upfiles/ICSP_EU_FinalTaizReport2019July19.pdf (Accessed 16 February 2020).

^[10] Nadwa al-Dawsari , “Tribal Governance And Stability In Yemen “, The Carnegie papers, Carnegie endowment (April 2012). https://carnegieendowment.org/files/yemen_tribal_governance.pdf (Accessed 5 March 2020).

^[11]CIVIC, “We Did Not Know If We Would Die From Bullets Or Hunger” Civilian Harm and Local Protection Measures in Yemen “, Jan 2019, https://civiliansinconflict.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/YEMEN_BulletsorHunger_FINAL_PROOF.pdf (Accessed 5 March 2020).

^[12] Fatima Saleh and Ahmed al-Sharjabi “Institutional Prerequisites for the STC “Coup” in Aden and Perspectives on the Jeddah Deal” , research debrief, Yemen Polling Center, Oct 2019. https://www.yemenpolling.org/institutional-prerequisites-for-the-stc-coup-in-aden-and-perspectives-on-the-jeddah-deal/ (Accessed 16 February 2020).

^[13] Human Rights Watch, “Yemen: Riyadh Agreement Ignores Rights Abuses”, December 2019, https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/12/12/yemen-riyadh-agreement-ignores-rights-abuses Accessed 5 Mar 2020; Human Rights Watch, “Yemen: UAE Backs Abusive Local Forces” June 2017.

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