Yemen: fragmentation, mediation and humanitarian crisis

18 May 2023. From 18:30 | Conference | Spanish | IEMed
slideshow image Yemeni coast guard officer shakes hands with members of Houthi movement during withdrawal from Saleef port in Hodeidah province, Yemen May 11, 2019. REUTERS/Abduljabbar Zeyad

After eight years of war and because of the proliferation of autonomous or semi-autonomous political and/or military forces, Yemen has suffered significant territorial, political-social and even economic fragmentation. The appearance of new nucleus of effective power with their own agendas and goals has meant a multiplication of the actors involved in the conflict, making its resolution enormously complex. In this scenario, it is very important to analyze these different de facto groups of power and their narrative to approach the process of seeking an eventual peace. All this without losing sight of the consequences of the humanitarian emergency and the most immediate needs of the country.

Leyla Hamad is a researcher at the department of Arab and Islamic Studies and Oriental Studies at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. She has a degree in Political Science and Administration from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and she obtained a Diploma of Advanced Studies in “Tradition and innovation in the Arab-Islamic world” from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. She is co-author, with Francisco Veiga and Ignacio Gutiérrez de Terán, of Yemen. La clave olvidada del mundo árabe (Alianza Editorial, 2014), and “Yemen: from the peaceful revolution to the struggles for power”, in Informe sobre las revueltas árabes (Ignacio Gutiérrez de Terán and Ignacio Álvarez-Ossorio (eds.), Ediciones del Oriente y del Mediterráneo, 2011).

Conference moderated by Blanca Camps-Febrer, Lecturer, Faculty of Political Science and Sociology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Co-organised with the Master’s Degree in International Relations, Security and Development, UAB within the framework of the Aula Mediterrània 2022-23 programme.

This conference takes place in Spanish at the IEMed conference room, Girona, 20 – Barcelona. It can also be followed on IEMed Youtube Channel.

Speakers


Speaker

Leyla Hamad

a researcher at the department of Arab and Islamic Studies and Oriental Studies Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Blanca Camps-Febrer
Moderator

Blanca Camps-Febrer

Lecturer, Faculty of Political Science and Sociology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

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