Yemen on the Brink of Hope with Elisabeth Kendall and Alexandra Stark
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🗓️ 21 July 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Yemen remains a mess. Many years of warfare have left it politically fractured, economically shattered and with a true humanitarian crisis of multiple dimensions. And yet there are some small signs of hope, with the Biden administration increasing its engagement to achieve progress and the United Nations resetting its efforts with a new special envoy to the country.
To talk through it, David Priess sat down with Elisabeth Kendall, a senior research fellow at Pembroke College of Oxford University, who has spent significant time on the ground, especially in Eastern Yemen, and Alexandra Stark, a senior researcher at New America and the author of the recent article on Lawfare, "Giving Diplomacy a Chance in Yemen."
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| 0:25.6 | no bull and the aftermath. |
| 0:33.8 | Even the two main groups who are supposedly on the same side, the internationally recognized |
| 0:38.1 | government, backed by Saudi and the coalition and the southern separatists backed by the |
| 0:42.8 | UAE, the co-incidence, their coalition, their cooperation is paper thin, it's very fragile. |
| 0:50.4 | This re-edigreement that they signed to keep them together under pressure from their sponsors |
| 0:56.6 | and the Gulf, it could fall apart as any moment. |
| 1:01.3 | So I think it's much less now about making the priority a ceasefire. |
| 1:06.2 | Of course, that's incredibly important, but no ceasefire is going to work unless there's |
| 1:11.4 | a much more inclusive and critical process backing it up. |
| 1:16.2 | I'm David Priest and this is the LawFair podcast. |
| 1:19.6 | July 21, 2021. |
| 1:23.8 | Yemen remains a mess. |
| 1:26.2 | Many years of warfare have left it politically fractured, economically shattered, and a true |
| 1:32.8 | humanitarian crisis of multiple dimensions. |
| 1:36.1 | And yet there are some small signs of hope with the Biden administration increasing its |
| 1:41.9 | engagement to achieve progress in the United Nations resetting its efforts with a new |
| 1:47.7 | special envoy to the country. |
| 1:51.4 | To talk through it all, we brought into the virtual jungle studio two women who know |
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