Module 13 - Videos
Expert Videos (1/2)
In the course of the seminar, experts on and from Yemen provided valuable information and thoughts for students. Their takes on the Yemeni situation and on processes regarding conflict transformation and reconciliation were summarised in video format. You will find information about the experts and all videos that accompanied the seminar below.
Dr. Julian Bergmann:
International mediation - An overview on effectiveness and its conditions
Dr. Julian Bergmann is a senior researcher at the German Development Institute in the programme on "Inter- and Transnational Cooperation". His fields of expertise include crisis prevention, conflict management and conflict mediation. His PhD thesis, defended in 2017, dealt with "Bargaining for Peace, Striving for Stability. A Study on the European Union's Effectiveness as International Mediator".
Prof. Dr. Susanne Buckley-Zistel:
On transitional justice
Prof. Dr. Susanne Buckley-Zistel is the executive director of the Center for Conflict Studies at Marburg University. Her areas of expertise include transitional justice, memory studies, peacebuilding, gender and post-positivist theories and development assistance. She is currently leading a research project on "Ascribing Individual Responsibility in the Aftermath of Collective Violence and Repression".
You will find Dr. Abdulsalam al-Rubaidi´s video input on Reconciliation in Yemen here.
Dr. Abdulsalam al-Rubaidi holds a PhD in Near and Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Bonn, Germany, and a master in Arabic Language and Literature from Sana’a University, Yemen. He is a lecturer at the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Faculty of Education at al-Baydha’ University, and a lecturer at the Gender Development Research and Studies Center (GDRSC) at Sana’a University, Yemen. He is also a founding member of the Academic Forum Muhammad Ali Luqman. Abdulsalam worked as a teacher of the humanities (religion, history and Arabic language) in a number of private schools and universities in Sana‘a from 2005 to 2009. From 2012 to 2014, he was a researcher at the Yemen Polling Center (YPC) in Sana‘a in the Volkswagen Foundation-funded project on ‘Framing the Revolution in Yemen’ with the University of Bonn. He is currently the editor of the Arabic publications at al-Madaniya Magazine and the Yemen Policy Center. Abdulsalam has published extensively on cultural and social issues in Yemen in both Arabic and English language.