Yemen's fight for survival
In 2011, Karman became the first female Arab Nobel Peace Prize laureate for her “…non-violent struggle for safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work.” Following the outbreak of the brutal civil war in Yemen, Karman has continued her activism. Earlier this year, she published a plan for ending what some consider ‘the world’s worst humanitarian crisis’.
Program
Keynote speaker: Tawakkol Karman, Yemini journalist, activist, and 2011 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Panel: Peter Salisbury, Senior Advisor of the International Crisis Group on Yemen; Dr. Lina Khatib,Head of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at Chatham House; Farea al-Muslimi, Chairman of the Sana’a Center for Strategic Studies
Moderator: Mah-Rukh Ali, Journalist and author
The Nobel Peace Prize Forum is part of Oslo Peace Days and organized by the Norwegian Nobel Institute and Nobel Peace Prize – Research and Information AS in partnership with the University of Oslo.