Associate Fellows
Dr. Ewa K. Strzelecka is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Wroclaw and a Visiting Fellow at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She specializes in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, with a focus on Yemen. Ewa holds a Ph.D. in Social Science from the University of Granada (Spain), where she received an award for her thesis on Yemen's women’s rights movement. Her career includes over two decades in academic research, teaching, and policy advising, with a focus on conflict and peacebuilding, feminist and civil society movements, justice and human rights, forced migration and refugees, international development, and socio-political change, especially within Yemen and the broader Middle East.
Ewa has held academic positions and prestigious fellowships at institutions and international organizations in Portugal, Germany, Poland, Spain, the UK, the US, Yemen, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Western Sahara, Morocco, Mozambique, South Africa, Bolivia, and India. Her extensive fieldwork includes work in the Netherlands (2021-24), Jordan (2022), Germany (2022), Western Sahara (2017-18), Yemen (2007-2013), Saudi Arabia (2012), Spain (2019), Mozambique (2009), Egypt (2008), Bolivia (2006), Morocco (2004), and Poland (1999-2002).
Between 2021 and 2024, she was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, leading the EU-funded Peace Women project Rethinking Peacebuilding: Women, Revolution, Exile, and Conflict Resolution in Yemen for which she was Visiting Fellow at CARPO. Her nearly 50 publications include her award-winning book Mujeres en la Primavera Árabe: construcción de una cultura política de resistencia feminista en Yemen (Women in the Arab Spring: Constructing a Political Culture of Feminist Resistance in Yemen, Madrid, 2017).
conflict and peacebuilding; feminist and civil society movements; justice and human rights; forced migration and refugees; international development; socio-political change; Yemen
(2024): ‘Spirituality, religion and peace. Holistic approaches in peace studies’, in: Joan Marques (ed.) Encyclopaedia of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Spirituality, Cham. Available online.
(2024): ‘Women’s participation and the politics of war and peace in Yemen’, in: Stephan Reiner & Alexander Weissenburger (eds): Yemen at a Crossroads: What Remains of Arabia Felix?, Vienna, pp. 115-129. Available online.
(2023): ‘Gender, nationalism and revolution in Western Sahara. Women’s participation in the Polisario state-movement’, in: Revista de Estudios Internacionales Mediterráneos (REIM) 35, pp. 116–138. Available online.
(2022): ‘Women under the Huthi regime. Gender, nationalism and Islam’, in: Abdullah Hamidaddin (ed). The Huthi Movement in Yemen. Ideology and Security in the Arab Gulf, London.
& Marie-Christine Heinze (2022): The Role of the Diaspora in Peacebuilding in Yemen. Potentials and Opportunities, Challenges and Constraints, CARPO Brief 22. Available online.
