Publications

CARPO Reports

CARPO Reports feature action-oriented research and studies. They provide comprehensive and in-depth analyses on specific topics, offer essential background knowledge, and conclude with actionable recommendations for relevant stakeholders.

13 Report 04.09.2024 (CARPO Sustainablity Series)

Urbanism in Flux

Smart and Sustainable Cities as Spaces for Regional Cooperation in West Asia and the Arabian Peninsula

by Sina Winkel and Sebastian Sons

Cities generate 75% of global CO₂ emissions from energy use, with rapid urbanization projected in West Asia and the Arabian Peninsula, particularly in the GCC countries. Urbanization poses challenges like housing shortages, congestion, pollution and …

12 Report 31.08.2023 (CARPO Sustainablity Series)

Energy Injustice and Its Role for Environmental Peacebuilding

Evidence from Hadhramawt Governorate, Yemen

by Ahmad Al-Wadaey, Tobias Zumbrägel and Ali Alamudi

This Report discusses the crucial but understudied impact of oil extraction industries on local communities and the environment in Yemen’s Hadhramawt governorate. By combining conceptual approaches of energy justice and the environmental …

11 Report 27.06.2023

China, Corona, Climate Change

Three Gamechangers for the Arab Gulf States

by Stefan Lukas and Sebastian Sons

This CARPO Report analyzes how the Corona pandemic, China and climate change are acting as major gamechangers for the Arab Gulf States, reshuffling old geopolitical, economic and social structures. These new developments in the region also mean that …

10 Report 30.03.2023

Research Cooperation with the ‘Global South’ [in German]
von Sarah Wessel

This CARPO Report outlines the critical debate about the ‘Global South’, the effect of unequal distribution in the emergence, generation and acceptance of specific knowledge regimes as well as central challenges in cooperation with sometimes …

09 Report 09.03.2022 (CARPO Sustainablity Series)

The Role of the Environment in Peacebuilding in Yemen
von Bilkis Zabara und Tobias Zumbrägel

This Report addresses the relationship between violent conflict and environmental governance in Yemen. It translates the concept of environmental peacebuilding to the case of Yemen, where it has not received broader attention in terms of …

08 Report 25.03.2021

‚Broken People Can’t Heal a Nation.‘

The Role of Arts in Peacebuilding in Yemen
von Yazeed al-Jeddawy, Maged al-Kholidy und Kate Nevens

This Report looks at how the arts and peacebuilding have historically intersected in Yemen, and how traditional arts are alive today and are being used to promote peace and war. It demonstrates the variety of ways in which the arts promote and …

07 Report 15.05.2019

Turning Interdependence into Complementary Action
von Julia Gurol & Parisa Shahmohammadi

This CARPO Report lays out what the role of China could be in the quest to safeguard the JCPOA. It outlines the viewpoints of Brussels and Beijing, and sketches converging and diverging interests and their influence on respective policy choices. It …

06 Report 05.03.2019

Understanding Peace Requirements in Yemen
von Mareike Transfeld & Marie-Christine Heinze

This CARPO Report serves as a background paper to five short studies Yemeni-international researcher tandems will develop in the course of 2019. It places a particular focus on ‘peace requirements’, a term that seeks to draw attention to the …

05 Report 06.02.2019

Back to Crisis Mode [in German]

Iran’s Quest to Manage Internal Crises and External Pressures
von Adnan Tabatabai

This CARPO Report is dedicated to an analytical discussion about how the ongoing crisis surrounding the nuclear agreement between the E3/EU+3 and Iran is affecting the foreign policy conduct of the Islamic Republic, its internal power balance, as …

04 Report 20.12.2017

Addressing Security Sector Reform in Yemen

Challenges and Opportunities for Intervention During and Post-Conflict
von Marie-Christine Heinze

This CARPO Report is the result of a conference with the same name, which was jointly organized by CARPO and the Regional Office Gulf States of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) at the Dead Sea in April 2017. The papers by prolific experts on Yemen …

03 Report 26.07.2016

Returning to Transitional Justice in Yemen

A Backgrounder on the Commission on the Forcibly Retired in the Southern Governorates
von Jens Kambeck

This CARPO Report focuses on the work of the Commission on the Forcibly Retired in the Southern Governorates, which was established in the framework of the GCC Initiative. The author argues that if the unity of Yemen is to be preserved, the only …

02 Report 25.02.2016

Iran Votes

A Primer to the Elections of Parliament and the Assembly of Experts
von Adnan Tabatabai

The twin elections of 26 February 2016 are the first to be held after the nuclear agreement between Iran and P5+1 has been signed. This CARPO Report sheds light on the current political climate in Iran and presents analytical criteria to apprehend …

01 Report 22.12.2014

Yemen [in German]

Actors, Factors, Scenarios
von Marie-Christine Heinze

Three years after nation-wide protests forced Yemen’s President Ali Abdallah Salih to step down, the country is in a highly volatile state. Numerous, largely armed actors fight for the advancement of their strategic interests while Houthi militias …