Closed Projects

Jan 2023 – Sep 2023

Energy Transition and the Upcoming Hydrogen Economy in Saudi Arabia

This project aims to provide background information and an analytical overview about Saudi Arabia’s current key industries as well as products of relevance for its energy transition and its national hydrogen economy. In this context, the project …

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Apr 2022 – Sep 2023

Impact of Oil Extraction Industries on Local Communities and the Environment in Hadhramawt, Yemen

Over the past years, the oil extraction industry and climatic disasters played an important role in environmental degradation and socio-political instability in Yemen. Against the backdrop of these problems, Ettifaq, MMF and CARPO explore the impact …

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Oct 2021 – Sep 2023

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 …

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Oct 2022 – Dec 2022

Enhancing Science Communication for Gender and Development

The Gender-Development Research & Studies Center (GDRSC) at Sana’a University, Yemen, and CARPO are co-implementing this short-term project on science communication for gender and development funded by the German Academic Exchange Service in the …

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Jun 2022 – Dec 2022

Podcast Katar 2022 – Mehr als eine WM

The CARPO podcast "Qatar 2022 – More than a World Cup" offers a balanced perspective on the World Cup together with renowned experts from academia, media, civil society, and politics—without generalizing, downplaying, or sugarcoating. Topics such as …

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Feb 2021 – Jul 2022

Global Autocratic Collaboration in Times of COVID-19: Game Changer or Business as usual in Sino-Gulf Relations

There is strong empirical evidence that COVID-19 acts as a booster for processes of global autocratization in which autocratic protagonists present themselves as more effective role models in fighting the pandemic than the ‘liberal script’ of …

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Dec 2021 – Jun 2022

Enhancing the Capacities and Capabilities of Iraq’s Institutional Landscape

Severe economic challenges impose enduring hardship on the livelihoods of the Iraqi populations. To help bridge the divide between the state and society and to support the process of socioeconomic development and reform, this project aims to develop …

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Oct 2021 – Dec 2021

kull:tour – Enhancing Cultural Dialogue between the Gulf States and Germany

In order to enhance the Gulf-German cultural dialogue, CARPO is organizing a workshop in December 2021 that will take place in the Gulf region and brings together artists from the Gulf Arab States and Germany. The workshop offers the participants …

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May 2019 – Dec 2021

Teaching and Advising on Post-conflict Reconstruction

CARPO is a partner in this project, which is implemented by the Institute for Oriental and Asian Studies at the University of Bonn together with the Gender-Development Research & Studies Center (GDRSC) at the University of Sanaa. The project is …

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Sep 2018 – Sep 2021

Tafahum

This project has started in September 2018 and is set up as a 3-year initiative that seeks to develop a roadmap for regional security in West Asia and the Arabian Peninsula – a region that includes the GCC states, Iran, Iraq and Yemen. The project …

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Jun 2019 – Aug 2021

Iraq and its neighbors

In June 2019, CARPO and the Stimson Center have started their new EU-funded project “Iraq and its Neighbours – Enhancing Dialogue and Regional Integration in West Asia”. The project envisions Iraq as the center-point for regional dialogue and …

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Apr 2020 – May 2021

Mapping Security Governance in Yemen

The objective of this research project is to map local security structures in al-Hudayda, Ta’iz and Aden with the goal of formulating recommendations on transitional security governance in support of the efforts of the UN Special Envoy to Yemen. We …

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Mar 2016 – Dec 2018

Academic Approaches to Peacebuilding and State Building in Yemen

CARPO is partner in a project on ‘Academic Approaches to Peace-building and State Building in Yemen’ at the University of Bonn, together with the Gender-Development Research & Studies Center at the University of Sanaa. The project is funded by …

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Mar 2016 – Dec 2018

Peacebuilding and State Building in Yemen

CARPO is partner in a project on ‘Academic Approaches to Peace-building and State Building in Yemen’ at the University of Bonn, together with the Gender-Development Research & Studies Center at the University of Sanaa. The project is funded by …

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Dec 2016 – Nov 2017

Addressing Security Sector Reform in Yemen

The Regional Office Gulf States of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung and CARPO are jointly organizing the conference ‘Addressing Security Sector Reform in Yemen. Challenges and Opportunities for Intervention during and post-Conflict’ from April 03-05 …

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Jul 2016 – Jun 2017

Enhancing Women’s Role in Peace and Security

From July 2016 to June 2017, CARPO implemented the research project ‘Enhancing Women’s Role in Peace and Security’ in Yemen in cooperation with Saferworld and the Yemen Polling Center. The aim of the research, which was led by CARPO as the main …

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Jan 2015 – Jan 2015

Dawla Madaniyya – A Future for the Civil State in the Arab World?

Academic Workshop at the University of Cologne, 19-20 January 2015 CARPO organized this workshop in cooperation with Laila Al-Zwaini (Re:Orient) and Prof. Dr. Sabine Damir-Geilsdorf (Seminar for Oriental Studies, University of Cologne) in order to …

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