The Yemen Peace Forum of 2020
This interactive initiative sought to invest in building and empowering the next generation of Yemeni youth and civil society actors and to engage them in critical national issues. Building on the Sana’a Center’s primary goal of mainstreaming local voices in knowledge production, this initiative seeks to develop and invest in young policy analysts and writers from across Yemen.
As a result of this initiative, the center was able to build the capacity of civil society representatives and youth from across Yemen with a focus on key themes and regions. Leveraging its strong network, the Sana’a Center also established a number of platforms and hubs for local, national and marginal voices and initiatives in Yemen as well as in the diaspora, with the goal of influencing policy and decision-making. The Center also linked these groups and their peacebuilding efforts to the UN-led peace process, political processes, local, regional and international decision-makers, and the media.
