Fragmentation nation: How Europeans can help end the conflict in Yemen
Europeans should resist the temptation of short-term fixes and adopt a longer-term approach to supporting Yemen
Yemen
Local and focused: European support for peace in Yemen
The EU should provide targeted support to local communities and organisations in Yemen. This would help sustain the ceasefire and restore Europeans’ credibility in the country.
Peace of work: Yemen’s fragile ceasefire
The current truce in Yemen could lead to negotiations on a long-term ceasefire. But this would require greater concessions by the Houthis and sustained diplomatic engagement from regional powers such as Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Iran.
9 Mar
Ending the Yemen conflict: Voices of local peace-builders
This event will consider how women peace-builders in Yemen are providing essential gender-responsive humanitarian and peacemaking support
Talking to the Houthis: How Europeans can promote peace in Yemen
European states should now increase conditional engagement with the Houthis, looking to widen political and humanitarian space on the ground
The Yemen conflict: Southern separatism in action
The Southern Transitional Council’s declaration of “self-rule” threatens to revive the internecine feuds of previous generations
11 Mar
The War in Yemen and the Southern Question: what can Europe do?
Lunch discussion with ECFR and external experts on the Yemen conflict and what Europe can do.
Yemen: Why the Riyadh Agreement is collapsing
The strategic ambitions of Saudi Arabia and the UAE have been diverging in Yemen – to the detriment of hopes for peace on the ground
War and pieces: Political divides in southern Yemen
The European Union should continue to support development and state-building in Yemen and develop platforms on which southerners can achieve self-determination
14 Nov
The War in Yemen: prospects for peace?
A Lunch Discussion on Yemen's role in the current Gulf crisis
Publications
Fragmentation nation: How Europeans can help end the conflict in Yemen
Europeans should resist the temptation of short-term fixes and adopt a longer-term approach to supporting Yemen
Talking to the Houthis: How Europeans can promote peace in Yemen
European states should now increase conditional engagement with the Houthis, looking to widen political and humanitarian space on the ground
War and pieces: Political divides in southern Yemen
The European Union should continue to support development and state-building in Yemen and develop platforms on which southerners can achieve self-determination
The Marib paradox: How one province succeeds in the midst of Yemen’s war
The northern province can act as a model for the rest of the country, if international actors, including Europe, learn its lessons
Alone in the desert? How France can lead Europe in the Middle East
France sees the MENA region as a state for foreign policy and great power politics and an opportunity to shape global politics and punch above its weight
Yemen’s Forgotten War: How Europe Can Lay the Foundations for Peace
The ‘forgotten war’ of Yemen is now matching the headline-grabbing conflict in Syria in its severity, and can no longer be ignored by European governments
Articles
Local and focused: European support for peace in Yemen
The EU should provide targeted support to local communities and organisations in Yemen. This would help sustain the ceasefire and restore Europeans’ credibility in the country.
Peace of work: Yemen’s fragile ceasefire
The current truce in Yemen could lead to negotiations on a long-term ceasefire. But this would require greater concessions by the Houthis and sustained diplomatic engagement from regional powers such as Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Iran.
The Yemen conflict: Southern separatism in action
The Southern Transitional Council’s declaration of “self-rule” threatens to revive the internecine feuds of previous generations
Yemen: Why the Riyadh Agreement is collapsing
The strategic ambitions of Saudi Arabia and the UAE have been diverging in Yemen – to the detriment of hopes for peace on the ground
Inertia on the Red Sea coast: Will Yemen’s political process collapse?
Three months after the signing of the Stockholm Agreement, a frail hope of de-escalation in Yemen remains – but only if the warring parties soon implement its key measures.
The end of the post-Khashoggi era? Europe’s collapsing unity on Saudi Arabia
As key EU member states quietly resume their strategic partnership with Saudi Arabia, Europe's unified position towards the Kingdom, together with its leverage over it, has begun to fray.
Out of Stockholm: Diplomacy and de-escalation in Yemen
More than three years after a Saudi-led military coalition and its Yemeni allies captured Aden, the city remains shrouded in the marks of war
The road to Uppsala: Opportunity and urgency in Yemen
This past weekend, the first steps toward political dialogue in Yemen took place in Sweden; but with a large part of the country on the brink of famine, a sense of urgency remains
Hudayda’s collapsing stalemate: A new act in the Yemen war
Stockholm is set to host peace talks later this month to end the war in Yemen, but those may now be postponed due to a new outbreak of violence in the country
Yemen’s diplomatic discord
After the collapse of planned consultations in Geneva, a new round of formal peace talks seems unlikely before the end of the year
Specials
The Middle East’s new battle lines
An ECFR guide to the key disputes threatening to spark a wider Middle Eastern war
Mapping the Yemen conflict
A multimedia exploration of Yemen's multi-faceted civil war
Events
9 Mar
Ending the Yemen conflict: Voices of local peace-builders
This event will consider how women peace-builders in Yemen are providing essential gender-responsive humanitarian and peacemaking support
11 Mar
The War in Yemen and the Southern Question: what can Europe do?
Lunch discussion with ECFR and external experts on the Yemen conflict and what Europe can do.
14 Nov
The War in Yemen: prospects for peace?
A Lunch Discussion on Yemen's role in the current Gulf crisis
20 Mar
Yémen : sortir de l’impasse après 4 ans de guerre
Nous avons le plaisir de vous inviter à un événement en présence de Radhya Almutawakel, Adam Baron, Aymeric Elluin, Lucile Grosjean et Camille Lons, coordinatrice du programme MENA de l'ECFR. sur le thème suivant : « Yémen : sortir de l'impasse après 4 ans de guerre ».
10 Oct
Yemen after Geneva: What future for peace efforts in Yemen?
Wednesday 10 October 2018, 09:00-10:00 (registration from 08.45) Venue: ECFR, 4th Floor, Tennyson House, 159-165 Great Portland Street, London W1W 5PA Please register to [email protected]
1 Oct
Russia and the Middle East
Nous avons le plaisir de vous inviter à un évènement en partenariat avec l’Institut d’études de sécurité de l’Union européenne (EUISS) avec Nicu Popescu, Stanislav Secrieru, Julien Barnes-Dacey et Timofey Borisov
9 Jul
Battle for Hudayda: A defining moment for the future of Yemen?
Discussion on the trajectory and consequences of the ongoing offensive in Hudayda, its potential effects on the humanitarian crisis, the challenges of stabilization, and its place within ongoing UN-led peace effort
2 Mar
Yemen: Charting A Response To State Fragmentation
The civil war in Yemen has left the state in tatters and the country fragmented, illustrated most clearly in renewed calls for secession among southern…
8 Sep
Yémen : quelle voie vers un règlement du conflit ?
L'ECFR Paris a le plaisir de vous convier à une discussion autour de Cheikh Abdulkarim al-Maqdashi et Laurent Bonnefoy, modérée par Adam Baron
9 Mar
Mapping the Yemen conflict: 2 years on
What has changed in Yemen since the Operation Storm? Which actors have emerged–or reemerged–to take advantage of the country's power vacuum?
In the media
They [Saudi Arabia] recognized that they need to make a very big move to really unify the anti-Houthi coalition,
What has happened raises the perceived risk and hurts the UAE’s reputation as one of the few really stable countries in the region
The fighting is “an example of the lack of willingness on all sides to come to any consensus,”
Raiman al-Hamdani on Yemen’s Houthi rebels having launched attacks with missiles and drones on the United Arab Emirates
The importance of inclusiveness in the negotiations is of particular relevance in Yemen, which is often reduced to the bipolar confrontation, but actually sees a myriad of minor movements
Kelly Petillo comments on the role of women in peace negotiations in Yemen and what the EU should do
If Marib falls in Houthis’ hands, which is likely, it would be a fundamental transformation of the war
