8 June 2023: Two NRM leaders met with Mark Clark MBE, the CEO of Generations for Peace (GFP) – an international organization based in Amman that works to build sustainable peace and conflict resolution at the grassroots level and empowers young leaders to promote a culture of forgiveness in their societies.
In the meeting, which was attended also by Lina Mamoni (the Coordinator of Tamadon Foundation), a number of areas of cooperation between NRM and GFP were discussed, including the upcoming consultation meeting of peace initiatives in Yemen held in Amman in the middle of July, under the supervision of NRM’s Internal Communications Team.
Dr Hamdan Dammag (head of NRM’s cultural and media track) and Dr Mahmood Alazani (head of NRM’s state building track) represented NRM in the meeting.
8 May 2023: the political track in NRM hosted Mr. Saleh Alnoud, spokesman for the Office of the Transitional Council (STC) as well as Mr. Qassem Daoud, head of the Aden Monitoring, Studies, and Training Center, to highlight the Yemeni scene and the challenges and opportunities for a solution, and especially to talk about the Southern Consultative Meeting that has just concluded. The meeting was moderated by Dr. Shadi Bassura, head of NRM’s foreign relations track.
In his interference, Mr. Qassem Daoud reviewed the outcomes of the Southern consultative meeting. He said that the meeting was a lesson for adopting dialogue as a method to resolve differences, and considered it a positive step that brought together multiple groups. He said that this meeting is an achievement for all democratic forces in the North and South, and stressed that dialogue and politics are the best way out of the war. He added that such consultative meetings are vital because, unfortunately, the traditional political parties have become part of the problem and have aged prematurely.
For his part, Mr. Saleh Alnoud said that the Southern Issue is as old as the Unity itself, that the Southern Consultative Meeting is a continuation of many bilateral dialogues, and that the participation of the STC in them is interim in order to obtain real reconciliation and partnerships, and that the continuation of work with the legitimate government is subject to the availability of guarantees. Alnoud stated that the goal in the end is to restore the Southern State, as the suffering caused an aversion to the Unity. He hinted that the marginalization of the Southern Issue dominated the National Dialogue in 2013 in its true sense, an attempt to disperse the South and that the major disaster was the invasion of the South in 2015. Alnoud warned of the danger of the continued seizure of power in the North by Houthis and the possibility of them trying to invade the South again.
The meeting concluded with a discussion where the attendees stressed the importance of the Southern Consultative Meeting as long as the dialogue is adopted to resolve differences, build political reconciliation, and renounce violence, but some warned of the danger of the STC claiming to represent the politically diverse South between supporters of the STC and others who believe in the Unity, and some considered what the STC is doing contrary to previous agreements it signed, including the Riyadh Agreement and its participation in the Presidential Leadership Council.
3 May 2023: As part of his visit to the health sector in Taiz, Taher Qassem MBE, head of NRM-UK, and a member of NRM’s health track, met with Dr Khalil al-Kahlani, director of the Higher Institute of Health Sciences in Taiz. They discussed what NRM’s health track can do to provide the support needed by the institute and the health sector in Taiz in general.
May 1, 2023: As part of its continuous efforts to reach a comprehensive and sustainable peace in Yemen that meets the aspirations and rights of the Yemeni people, the National Reconciliation Movement (NRM) held a consultative meeting with several influential leading Yemeni women from various political affiliations, civil societies, international organizations as well as from its members.
In the meeting, which took place online, and moderated by Dr. Roza Al-Khamri and Dr. Abdulrahman Al-Salehi (both from the NRM’s Internal Communication Team), the importance of conducting serious and transparent inclusive dialogue, to revise the concept of peace in Yemen, has been discussed. The attendees also stressed the need to establish a broad national coalition of peace for all Yemeni peace initiatives both inside and outside Yemen, to support the peace process and enhance the role of women and youth in it, and the importance of providing the necessary support of such coalition by different parties, organizations and personalities interested in peace inside and outside Yemen.
Delegations from the Yemeni National Reconciliation Movement (NRM) recently visited influential regional countries in Yemeni affairs, including KSA, Egypt, and UAE.
These visits, coordinated by NRM’s Foreign Relations Track, are part of NRM’s efforts to support the peace process, stop the war, and push the conflicting parties to sit at the negotiation table.
Because the NRM believes in the importance of a Yemeni-Yemeni solution, these visits aimed at communication, coordination, and discussion with several high-ranking, active Yemeni leaders present in these countries. The NRM hopes these individuals will contribute directly to reviving and progressing the peace talks and define the priorities and features of the coming transitional phase. The meetings included former presidents, prime ministers, politicians, military leaders, leaderships of Yemeni parties, and social and tribal figures. NRM’s delegations also met with a number of leading figures in these regional countries and briefed them on NRM’s efforts in the peacebuilding process in Yemen.
During these visits and discussions, everyone reached a clear conclusion – regardless of their orientations, political affiliations, and position in the Yemeni crisis – that the war in Yemen must stop first, for it has caused an unprecedented economic and humanitarian crisis affecting millions of people across Yemen. Moreover, the current state of no war and no peace has caused further social and political fragmentation and more economic collapse that may lead to armed conflicts between all Yemeni parties, including those in alliance. This would, in turn, negatively affect the stability and security in the region.
During the visits, the delegates confirmed NRM’s positive neutrality and its standing at the same distance from all parties, in line with its goals and national constants aimed at a comprehensive, just and sustainable peace that leads to rebuilding the Yemeni state on the bases of development, democracy, freedoms, social justice, and equal citizenship.
Cairo, March 20, 2023: The Culture and Media Track In NRM concluded its first training course entitled “Peace Journalism”, which was held from 17-19 of March 2023, with a participation of 40 Yemeni journalists and media persons residing in Egypt, Yemen and other countries, who represented varied media platforms and different political trends.
The course, which was organized with the cooperation of Tamadon Foundation for Cultural Development, and Can Be for training and conference management, consists of a number of topics related to peace journalism, and programs of professional foundations and technical skills presented by professional international trainers with long-standing experience in the field of peace journalism.
The first day of the course included two training sessions, the first was about peace journalism and solutions journalism, and the second was in mobile journalism. On the second day, the sessions were devoted to information of social media, and online content checking and scrutinizing. On the third day of the course, topics on writing impactful human stories, and the psychological safety of journalists were presented.
A number of NRM branch in Egypt leaders attended the conclusion of the course, including two leaders of NRM, namely Dr. Hamdan Dammag (Head of the Culture and Media Track) and Dr. Mahmoud Alazani (Head of the State Building Track). The participants and organizers of this course were honored with certificates. The trainees expressed their gladness for the benefit they obtained from the course and praised the high level of its organization, and its distinction from the rest of the courses in terms of its important and qualitative content. The participants vowed to make use of what they benefited from this course in their future media and press work related to peacebuilding in Yemen.
27 March 2023: The Political Track in NRM organized a discussion event on the historical national reconciliation, hosting Judge, Dr. Yahia al-Mawri, the head NRM branch in Egypt, to elaborate on a paper he published recently.
In the discussion conducted through Zoom, and directed by Dr. Roza Al-Khamiri, an NRM internal team communication member, Almawery spoke about the importance of reaching a national reconciliation as a way out from the current disastrous situation inflicted upon Yemenis as well as the severe risks that are threatening the Yemeni national being with division and total breakdown.
Almawery stressed that the national duty necessitates that all conflict parties should not waste the chance that is provided by the current international dynamics to reach a sound national reconciliation that should include all parties with no exception. Almawery spoke about the definition of national reconciliation and its goals as well as the importance of taking Yemen from the conflict and violence phase to the security, stability, and social peace phase.
He also spoke about the national reconciliation realization conditions and requirements of which the conviction of all conflict parties that Yemen is a mutual ownership to all Yemenis on an equal footing, and that they do not represent all the Yemeni society but rather a part of it.
“These parties should abandon the religious and historical rights claims in order to monopolize power or practice guardianship over other social groups or geographical areas”, he added.
Almawery stressed that dialogue and Yemeni unity are among the most important in-hand assurances to keep Yemen’s sovereignty, independence and the modern Yemeni state building. He further stated that the Yemeni revolutions of 26 September 1962 and 14 October 1963, along with the republican system, should be deemed as founding principles that represent entry points to an agreement about Yemen’s future. Project Action Plan
London, 1/2/2023: In partnership with Peoples-Praxis and Yemen Special Interest Group (SIG), and the Health Track in NRM, the Health Professionals for Yemen (HPY-UK) invites university students in health programmes or master’s degree graduates in public health who need support and mentoring to develop their careers in public health to contact us.
We have an international team of experts who will support you in this programme. Mentors will work with you for a period you and your mentor will decide. You will get a certificate of attendance at the end of that time.
We invite practitioners in any area of Yemen who are interested in this programme.
Requirements:
1- Your work objectives are to improve public health
2- You are interested and have qualifications in health or health-related subjects
3- You have internet connections
4- Able to communicate in English via email, WhatsApp, zoom, Google Meet or any media available for applicants
If you are interested but cannot master English well, please contact us and we will try what we can do to help you.
We encourage both female and male applicants.
You can apply yourself for a mentor via: http://bit.ly/3QGmXHBor you can contact us for additional support by email: taherqassim@gmail.com or WhatsApp +44 (0)7801658444 and we will get back to you.
12 January 2023: The political track hosted Rasha Jarhum, a member of the National Consultation and Reconciliation Commission (NCRC) and head of the Peace Track Initiative.
In the meeting attended by members from all NRM tracks, Jarhum stated that proposals have been put in place to involve women in all state institutions, explaining that the women’s component in the NCRC, in coordination with the Women’s Solidarity Network, has created a database of Yemeni women’s experiences, and participated in the preparation of a matrix of solutions and mechanisms proposed for the disputed issues in front of NCRC.
Jarhum explained that there are three committees to which the women component of NCRC contributes, namely the committee for preparing the internal regulations, the media détente committee, and the comprehensive peace vision committee.
She pointed out that NRM, NCRC and other women’s organizations must work together to coordinate and intensify the mutual peacebuilding efforts especially since NRM has a large number of qualified female leaders and members.
London, 13/12/2022: NRM branch in the UK (NRM-UK) held a special meeting with Tim Loughton MP and Flick Drummond MP, Chair and Co-Chair of the Yemen All-Party Parliamentary Group(Yemen APPG) respectively. In the meeting, members of NRM-UK presented an introductory overview of NRM and provide a briefing on the current developments in Yemen.
A continuation of cooperation and coordination between Yemen APPG and NRM-UK was agreed upon in order to work together to help peace efforts, stop the war and activate the British role at all levels so that the Yemeni issue remains alive, especially in the face of the current major international developments.
