Peace Women

Peace Women is an academic postdoctoral research project funded by the European Commission under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship Programme. It is hosted by the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam (Netherlands) and by the Center for Applied Research in Partnership with the Orient in Bonn (Germany). The project aims for a full-length and multisite study of women, revolution, forced migration and peacebuilding in Yemen and beyond, focusing particularly, but not exclusively, on Yemeni activists based in the Netherlands, Germany and Jordan. 

Duration: October 2021 – September 2023 

Team: Ewa Strzelecka (contact person), Marie-Christine Heinze 

Partner: Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam 

Donor: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship Programme (European Commission) 

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The Role of the Diaspora in Peacebuilding in Yemen. Potentials and Opportunities, Challenges and Constraints

The Role of the Diaspora in Peacebuilding in Yemen. Potentials and Opportunities, Challenges and Constraints

by Marie-Christine Heinze and Ewa K. Strzelecka 

On 12 June 2022, FES Yemen and CARPO, in collaboration with the EU-funded Peace Women project, convened a one-day workshop in Amman, Jordan. The aim of this workshop was to discuss with researchers as well as female and male diaspora representatives challenges and constraints as well as potentials and opportunities of Yemeni diaspora communities to contribute to peace in their home country, and to particularly highlight the role of female members of the diaspora community in such efforts. This publication is a summary of the most important workshop findings. 

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