 Okay, good morning, everyone. Welcome to the United States Institute of Peace. It's a pleasure to have you here in a full room after a holiday weekend. So thank you for taking time out of your busy schedules to join us today. I'd also like to thank those from USIP who made today possible and putting together everything. That includes Manal Omar, who is our acting director of our Middle East and Africa Center and her staff. We would like to thank Leila Noraldine for her assistance and also to thank Suzy Hayward, who is our director of religion and inclusive societies, and her staff who she's not in here, but Melissa Nozel, who has been running around getting everything organized. And most importantly, we would like to thank our honored guests this morning. We would like to thank Tara Cole, Carmen, for joining us today and for sharing her thoughts with us on the peace process, the challenges in Yemen and the way forward for building peace. I'd also like to thank Mohamed El-Sunusi. He is with the Network for Religious and Traditional Peacemakers, and they are one of the co-sponsors of today's event, and it's been their dedication and focus that's also made today possible. What I'd like to do is to give you a little bit of background on our guest. Tara Cole, Carmen, has been at the forefront of the human rights struggle in Yemen for more than a decade and began organizing protests for democratic reforms in Yemen in 2007. These demonstrations grew in 2011 as a pro-democracy movement known as part, as we all know, as the Arab Spring movements that were occurring during the same time in many of the countries in Middle East and North Africa. She was a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011 for her impact as a woman's rights and human rights advocate. She was the first Yemeni, the first Arab woman, and the second Muslim woman to win the prize. It's inspirational efforts of people like Tara Cole, Carmen, who act as guiding lights for many others across the world who are engaged in the peace building struggle and trying to resolve conflicts peacefully and without the use of violence. I would like to take a few moments to share with you some of the work that USIP has been doing in this regard in a few countries. This includes work in Myanmar where we've worked with religious actors and interfaith groups, thanks to Susie, to bridge societal divides and promote understanding and collaboration. To our efforts across the Middle East and Africa where we work to empower and build the skills of emerging youth leaders so that they can guide themselves and their countries through specialized leadership and conflict resolution training. To our work in Yemen over the years where through research and action we promoted the ideals of access to justice for all citizens, the better treatment of prisoners and prison reform, and inclusive and transparent dialogue processes for resolving conflict. Above all, and all the work that we do, USIP believes strongly that to promote nonviolent peaceful means to mitigate and resolve conflict is an imperative for our world. As Tara Cole, Carmen said during her Nobel Peace Prize speech, resistance to repression and violence is possible without relying on similar repression and violence. We know that throughout our history human progress has been driven forward not just by government leaders, not just by state bodies, but by ordinary men and ordinary women who believe in the possibility of peaceful change. Citizens who stand up against incredible odds and great danger not only to themselves and their families to protect their own rights, their families' rights, and their country's citizens' rights to extend rights to others. So with that I would like to turn it over to another person who as I mentioned earlier wouldn't this event today would not be possible. Please welcome the US Director of the Secretariat of the Network for Religious and Traditional Peacemakers, Mr. Muhammad Elsinousi. Thank you, thank you so much Collit for your kind introduction to our guest speaker here and our honored guest I should say, Tawakul Carmen. I would like to begin by thanking the USIP, the United States Institute of Peace for giving us this opportunity of hearing from Tawakul Carmen, a person that is well known in the Muslim world and the Arab world and around the globe. USIP has been a champion as we know in peacebuilding efforts around the world and we work very closely as a network for religious and traditional peacemakers, a global initiative that is sponsored and founded by the Finchurch Aid and the Finnish government and the United Nations and other partners to empower religious leaders around the world, particularly religious and traditional leaders that are doing peacebuilding around the world. So our hope is that to bring them and create a forum for dialogue between religious leaders around the world as well as the policymakers and and officials as well. So with that we are so delighted to facilitate this particular event with the USIP having Miss Tawakul Carmen here in the country to hear from her and to really recognize her work around the globe and particularly in her efforts to promote peacebuilding. So without further ado I would like to give the basically microphone to the Nobel Peace Prize winner Tawakul Carmen. Peace upon you. Thank you USIP for giving me the chance to speak with all people who are so keen and interesting on the human rights, on the peace process, on the situation in Arab Peninsula and Yemen particularly. I will speak in English in the first then I will shift to Arabic. So please be ready then for your headphones. First dear brothers and sisters I will tell you the story of Yemenis, the great nation, the kindness people who dream for justice, for freedom, for equality, for good governance, for democracy, for peace. People in Yemen who suffered from corruption, from dictatorship, people in Yemen who suffered from wars, from terrorism, people in Yemen who suffered from poverty, from disease, from ignorance. These people decided to own the time, to own the period, to own the history, to create the future for building a new Yemen. Because of that people in Yemen decided to make a revolution, peace for revolution. People in Yemen who suffered from violence decided to make a great revolution, peace for revolution, to tell 100% peace for revolution in 2011. Yemeni people, women and men, youth before old, women before men, all of them was hand with hand, went to the street chanting, carrying the flowers against all the revolution of the previous regime, of the ousted Ali Saleh, president Ali Saleh. He faced the revolution with all kinds of violence, all kinds of violence, of violence, but the Yemeni people faced the violence with non-violence, all kinds of bullets, all kinds of bombs, all kinds of hatred, Yemeni people faced all these things with the chanting, just the chanting, just singing in the streets, silmiya, silmiya, our revolution, silmiya, peaceful, peaceful, our revolution, peaceful. Both of them, all of them were carried the flowers in front of all the kind of preparation and died in the street while this society was an armed society. Yemeni people has more than 70 million peace of women, 70 million peace of women and when they decided to make revolution they agreed to throw all this, all the women inside their tribes and went to the street peacefully and because of that they went in the first stable revolution because of that they had the acknowledge, the recognition from the world and they give them, the world give Yemeni people the Nobel Peace Prize because all the people was very proud of this extremist, extremist society and an armed society and they saw women before men, they saw the peaceful method, they saw the tribes inside who made a lot of wars between them since years and years but when they entered to the peaceful revolution all of them sleep in one tent, eat in one tent and die with each other for creating a new Yemen. So we are so proud that we did, we made a great peaceful revolution, a great peaceful revolution and that wasn't enough for Yemeni people, they decided to continue their peaceful method when the ousted President Ali Saleh lived the power. Yemeni people made the political map, the best political map, the best road map that explained what Yemeni people should do and that was in the sponsorship of all the world and the mission of our neighbors what you know what they call it GCC initiative. All Yemeni people agreed or most of them, especially the revolutionary people agreed on this initiative except one article inside the GCC initiative which was the immunity giving the immunity to Ali Saleh. So the initiative had a lot of articles, great articles that implement all the demands of the revolutionary people. It talks about unified the army, it talks about reorganized the army, it talks about good governance, guarantee the good governance and the transparency and fighting corruption in all the institution of the of the of the state. It talks about human rights, it talks about transitional justice, it talks about national dialogue that must gather all Yemeni people in one table, talk about discuss all the all the subjects, all the problems and it talks about the new constitution and election. So it was very clear map and we as peaceful revolutionary people said okay we are agreed on this map but except one article which is giving the ousted president Ali Saleh immunity because not because that we are against the the forgiveness no or tolerance no but because we know that there is no peace without justice and we know because we know that this president this is the ousted president if he leaves the power and with all money and with all power and with all problem that he made for Yemen when he was in the in the in the authority he will continue his bad rule in Yemen and that is what happened now when he led the coup against the transitional period. So in the transitional period with all these things Yemeni agreed to the GCC initiative and welcomed the sponsorship of all the international community we welcome them and come okay we want to give a good example of a very sexist story in the arab spring countries and we did in 2012 and 13 and even the early the the I mean the first year the first month of 2014 there was there were we're talking about sexist story in Yemen while the other countries in arab spring has some problems so we did the trans the we entered to the government yeah we entered to the transitional period we allow the ruling party that is led by the ousted president to be in the government to have half seats in the government and we allow the Houthis and Ali Saleh alliance to be in the national dialogue and we were together talking discussing every day in the national dialogue for nine months how to create a new Yemen how to build a new Yemen and we did the great national dialogue a great national dialogue after nine months there was more than 1000 great outcomes again that achieved all the value most not all because our dream is big so all most of the values of the dreamer which is justice freedom equality equal citizenship good governance democracy peace and decentralization because was one of the outcomes of the national dialogue is decentralized Yemen to make it federal to sex that will guarantee the services to reach to everybody inside Yemen and also to make the to make to to give the opportunity for all the people to share to participate in the authority and also in the wealth after that also there was constitutional committee again also Ali Saleh and Houthis was members in this committee and four months they did the the the outcomes of the draft constitution was great and we was we were just few steps to make the referendum for the institution to make the election and suddenly everything collapsed everything collapsed why because Ali Saleh decided to destroy the transitional period the head of snake strike is decided to kill Yemeni and to use the final card that he has and he tried many times through the three years of the transitional period but he felt but the last thing is when he carried the Houthis and with support from Iran to incubate the capital of Sana'a and to incubate other cities and at that time all things collapsed all things all our dream the Yemeni nationalities was threatened the Yemeni Republic the Republic of Yemen was collapsed by Houthi and Ali Saleh and again with the support from Iran they incubate our our capital they killed a lot of people they arrested most of the journalists human rights activists most of the leaders of the peaceful revolution they destroy the houses the mosques even the schools they did the horrible a horrible violation in every field and they didn't stop in Sana'a they went to taiz they want they went to Aden while that time the president also was surrounded by them the legitimate president hadi was surrounded by them and also the prime minister the president had escaped from his home arrest to Aden they follow him to Aden and send muscles to the palace and send solider and send militias to Aden after that the president had escaped again to Saudi Arabia and he called Saudi Arabia and Arab people to help him on facing the coup of Ali Saleh on facing the coup of militia Houthis militia on facing the coup of Iran and when he said that he didn't give something from his head it was a lot of statements from Iranian authorities from the commanders from the political from the Malali a lot of statements talking about that they are incubating Sana'a at the fourth city that they incubate that they incubate because they incubate they said that they control Baghdad and Beirut and Dimash and now Sana'a they said that they are building the Persian emperor so this is why the Arab coalition answered to feel the threat real threat and decided to support the legitimate president hadi and there is another thing which is there are a lot of people special in the middle of Yemen and in the south there is popular resistance popular resistance who refused the incubation of Iran of Houthis and who refused the counter-revolution of Ali Saleh who refused to incubate their cities they are armed people they decided to stop the militia of al-Houthi and to stop the Ali Saleh and his alliance and to regain their cities to defend on their cities and to defend on the values that they are or they made the revolution for special Taiz because Taiz was the capital of the peaceful revolution special Adam ma'rib so Yemeni there is real refuse against the the Houthi militia and Ali Saleh alliance from most of the land from most of the people by the way the most percentage of the people they are in popular they are in Taiz and the in the south and in the middle so people from north of north came to equip by the Taiz and the other and Adam and other and other cities and of struggles against the Houthi militia against the coup of the ousted president Ali Saleh against the Iranian dream in Yemen one is peaceful struggle two resistance is the Arab coalition with the president Hadi and with the government for me and for the people who are with me who made and who are still in the peaceful method we are belong to the first choice to the first field peaceful peaceful our revolution is peaceful peaceful peaceful our country must continue must rebuild in the peaceful method so I am belong to that time or to this the field of the struggle now because I'm I belong to this camp the peaceful camp I call and every day call the Houthi militia Ibn Ali Saleh alliance all of them to draw from the cities to hand over the weapons to the transitional authority that all of us agreed on special the government because the government the Houthi was agreed on on them to transfer from the militia to political party you can't continue your role in the in the in the you can't participate in the public life while your arm and while you use violence to achieve your political your political goals so please you should do that for Yemen for us for the future for the current and so to to to to transfer from the militia to political party and then to make the to put the the constitution to the people have referendum and at least in the last make the make the election so it's when we talk about the lasting peace building peace in Yemen we have to make about comprehensive solution comprehensive solution the comprehensive solution by the way even with this comprehensive solution it is inside the gcc initiative it is inside the national dialogue outcomes it is inside the security council resolutions special special 20 to 16 so this is very important when we talk about building peace in Yemen we will not be able to achieve it if the militia will still has you know the the the weapons it must be that the transitional authority has to continue its rule to finalize the transitional period the tasks they have to return to Yemen they have to return to the president had he the prime minister the old cabinet has to return to Yemen to continue their rule and also to yeah and achieving the goal and also to implement this you know the whole solution this is this is our method and this is our for building peace in Yemen and it's very important to know that it was a big mistake when they gave the immunity to the outstretched resident of alis lala so now it's very important to don't repeat this mistake it's very important to prosecute the the commander alis lala and the people who made all this chaos who killed all these people people but also we may should make this persecution under the criteria of transitional justice it's very important if we allow the criminal to escape with its crimes that means that we encourage him that we give him the power again to make more crimes in the society finally with all this and description about what's happening in Yemen I start with you that we enter to this point with the dreams of freedom of justice of equality of a strong country of rich country of democracy of rule of law and we died for that and when we decided to do that we knew that the freedom has a very high price now I assure you that this dream didn't stop will not stop this dream is continue and we know that every great revolution followed by counter revolution and we know how America how west suffered the load to reach to this moment of democracy and freedom and we know how many counter revolutions that you faced and we know that it talks many hundreds of years to reach to your democracy and human rights and we know also that we will reach to the moment of democracy and peace and justice and stability and peace in our countries they see it is so far but we see it is so close it's very very close you will see and I invite you from now to visit a great a great Yemen thank you you did very well in English so you didn't need to speak Arabic yeah so thank you so much for this remarkable presentation now we have about 30 minutes for questions and answers we do have cards I think that we're gonna be distributed to everyone so please if you do have a question please write it down and and we will here is yes and Susan will help us to to sort them out but I want to begin by asking you few questions in fact and all of us basically see what is going on on the ground in Yemen and I want to begin the discussion here and the question by the humanitarian situation in Yemen the United Nations describes the situations in Yemen as a humanitarian catastrophe and says that more than 70 organizations are working to help those in need face blockades inspections by the coalition so my question to you is what can be done to bring more attention to the humanitarian crisis in Yemen and what can be done to help those in need by the way the humanitarian cases in Yemen is very sad is very catastrophe not just because of the war it was even when the Ali Saleh was in the in the uh as a resident in the position as a resident and it was a lot of report that describe Yemen well I mean said that they will describe Yemen as a feeler a failure country so now the situation is very very very bad it's a disaster it is a catastrophe catastrophe really but the United Nations and all the human rights the all the societies of the organization who are I'm gonna speak in Arabic by the way I I I forgot all my English so so everybody can just use their headphones okay for a second I believe the humanitarian situation is very catastrophic it really is a disaster this situation it has been like this since the recent years during the ousted president Abdullah like this and it has been like this during until during this revolution and it's still like this what's the solution it can be done the solution is to help Yemeni people to reach them the humanitarian aid those who suffer and live in a dire situation there is also another situation we can do it in parallel and to stop the reasons behind or the means behind these sufferings there was the suffering and it was Ali Abdullah Salih was the main reason so we could stop all the corruption all the economic situation what happened there but we still are like this so for now we have to stop the Houthi militia and Ali Abdullah Salih in taking revenge of the Yemeni peoples the humanitarian situation is because it's not just about food and drink it's about medicines and also it's about killing people cities are being raised houses have been destroyed over the people people found no shelter they don't find any place to they can't find medicines running water food who is the reason the reason is the war has been declared by Ali Abdullah Salih and Houthi and this is being feed by Ali Abdullah Salih and Iran we are now need to stop this war we are talking about humanitarian aid it should not be separated from what happened what happens there which is the war and the war cannot be stopped without a list of solutions that we have to apply and I talked about them so no patch will solve this we should find the essential solutions there's some international organizations facing hard they cannot reach they cannot deliver the aids to the Yemeni peoples how can you make sure that the United Nations and other agencies aids and reliefs can reach the Yemeni people anyone can give some facilitation and help in so providing these helps and supports to the Yemeni people it's very important yes to open the ports it's very important to you to open the ports to reach food and medicines all the ports should be opened but also the war should be stopped we are not you should not talking to talk about just partial solves the ports should be open the war should be stopped an inclusive comprehensive solution which could be disarming the militias and that's the Houthi and they can turn into a political party and participate in the political process and they all but they already participated in the in drafting the constitution and they agreed on it and then going for a referendum for this constitution and then there'd be elections local elections regional elections and also national election elections so you could go to the next question is we would like you to address the national dialogue you mentioned the national dialogue and you said that it was a positive step towards in 2011 but the question is I'm going to ask English be able to go back for the initiative for an initiative for dialogue which can replace the war and conflicts so a peaceful situation comes how can we do this the implementation is very very important one of our mistakes was that the tasks in the gcc initiative we didn't not we as people we as the transitional authority yes i am not of them one of them but i blame them that they didn't implement it at all so it's very important to implement everything now in the national dialogue also it's very important to implement if we just jump a jump if we just jump from dialogue to dialogue to dialogue and without implementation we will not do anything so we did a great dialogue we did a great uh uh uh we have a great outcome of the of the dialogue we have a great resolution to 16 on the security council resolution so we need to implement so if we talk about another dialogue i don't think that we will we will have you know any progress but the dialogue must be how to implement not for to have another result no how to implement we have now there is a resolution that you have that you should hand over the weapons so the weapons must go to the legitimate authority this is how just the way to this is the this is the dialogue and if we make the dialogue again we will lose time and the and the uh the war will continue yeah so um i want to move a little bit from the situation in yemen to ask you generally yes a question um that um you know related to islam and how actually um the role of islam played uh islam played a major role in shaping your own efforts to advance peace um i believe that islam as christian as jewellery them all of the way they play a good rule and all of them they don't have any conflict between the values that i believe on all the religions has a real relationship with peace with love with god existence with except each other with fighting corruption i i believe that every religion has to do its rule and every religious has to do their rules on fighting corruption and fighting dictatorism so um um so i believe in all religion as the values for you know achieving the value that we made the our revolution for great um so we have only 15 minutes left so i want to go back to call it here and you can help us with the audience questions please thank you very much to everyone who submitted questions either here or those that were submitted through the webcast we have over 20 questions which is excellent very engaged audience very interesting questions so what i've done is i've grouped them i'm going slower so that the translation can go okay so i'm going to group these um into the different categories the first category relates to the coalition's role in yemen and i'm going to ask a couple two part questions and then perhaps if you could just answer it collectively there are there are different questions related to the coalition role one is what is your view of the saudi airstrikes and blockades that are affecting the humanitarian assistance a related question is last week president obama met with the king of saudi arabia where he expressed support for the saudi led coalition but also his concerns about the many civilian deaths do you share these concerns what is your position on the saudi led coalition and the escalating activities in yemen and then two related questions to those two initial questions are have the military strikes help draw the houthis to negotiations and what role do you believe the saudi's the maraudi should play in the rebuilding of yemen so that's one group and then when we're done with that i will go through the next group yeah so all this Gobi is talking about saudi and its role in yemen as i said unfortunately that the arab coalition that led by saudi is came as a result because or as a result of calling from the president had to help them to help him to help yemen to face the militia but again and again i am belong to the peaceful method so i believe that we can face violence by non-violence so we have a lot of fields that people that they are facing the houthi the koo against yemen again the peaceful method that i belong to the popular resistance and the arab coalition with the with the leading of saudi and calling off with the president had but also i have a lot of statements called men the arab coalition when they attack the civilian a lot of statements against that so i call them that they have to commit they have to fulfill on the canon and insani the humanitarian law it's very important but also i always talking about the militia so look most of the questions was about the attack of arab coalition or of saudi coalition and and i faced a lot of questions of this but unfortunately i didn't hear not just here in many i didn't hear the questions about that what houthi's militia did in all the cities so it's very important to say to say to convince all the mistakes we showed it's very important to convince all the crimes not just the saudi and not just the houthi militia the second group of questions second group relates to the role of women and one question related to that is what should be the ideal role of women in the peace process and what are your views of the draft constitution given 30 quota for women failed and rights of individuals are subsumed under the rights of the family and as an important this is also i'm going to give you the one that includes youth also as an important demographic what role and support can young people play to build a more peaceful society in yemen the woman role was a unprecedented role of very important the woman did agree they rose up against dictatorship political dictatorship and also the religious dictatorship and also the dictatorship of the traditions in her revolution in 2011 they stood the women stood against these three dictatorships when they asked for freedom equal rights and liberty these these these revolutions was led by women they they met a very big victory and reached us to the transitions period and then from there we began reaching us to another level and the transitional period the women in yemen was in the highest positions for making decisions about this transitional period they are just about something like 25 to 30 minutes a percent and then sometimes more than 30 minutes 30 percent and the preparatory committee committee for the preparation of drafting the law and the national dialogue conference where the decisions are made about the constitution and the future of the country women were there and strongly and the committee for drafting the constitution even in the government in the government they were they they weren't 30 percent but they were much better than and now it's there much better before the revolution the women have been there in making process of decision making but of course it was not satisfactory for us as women because we do believe that the new era or the new a new time has came for women after suffering from all these catastrophes from these disasters the country should go back for peaceful and for reconstruction but we by that time we don't want the women to be marginalized again and women to and men to rule we these things should be changed we always been asking for more and more rights for women the outcomes of the national dialogue and the constitution they stipulated that women have equal rights as a citizen there is no difference between men and women and the citizens and then as for women because they have been marginalized for all this period and and in the society and this and we are now passing this period so the new constitution the draft constitution stated that that there should be a quota for 30 percent of women representing women in all levels of government and powers the constitution also guarantees under against underage marriage and then this is the violation of who children's right especially about the we've mentioned this the underage marriage so the constitution is the constitution we are talking about which is now who these are rebelling against it and Ali Abdullah Salah are fighting it it was a constitution that guarantees the equal rights for all Yemeni people it was a guarantee that guarantees the democracy and fighting corruption and good governance a human rights human rights it was a constitution well we have some shortfalls we know that it has some shortfalls as human rights activists we wanted better more but it still represents much of our dreams for a civil state where are lower rules should be the role of the united states and bringing the situation in Yemen to a peaceful conclusion and to prevent humanitarian challenges to the country and refugee flows the role of the united states especially they do not make the same mistake during the transitional period it should sponsor and to see the and to live to see the the the the and to sponsor the peaceful construction the political process to sponsor the process the political process and guaranteeing the reconstruction of Yemen it should help and support Yemenis in building a civil state based on decentralized countries we do need this kind of system what we want from the united state is a great bigger role in every aspect late to the Houthis role moving forward will they be accepted as a political party given what has happened thus far and what do you think is the most important aspect for reconciliation community reconciliation post-conflict especially the former combatants and Houthis we cannot go for a peaceful without without asking or forcing the militias and combatants to come back for the civil society and to participate in the political process to try to reach their goals by political means so they have to be get disarmed and get out of the cities sir they better militia while having all these weapons they cannot change into political process participate in the political process they should first disarmed and then they can change into a political party this is very important so even up to now we ask and urge and plead our brothers in militias in Houthi to change into political party and participate in the political process and for this they should disarm take and go back to the places so we can reconstruct the country after all this destruction to closing remarks and this is a personal question for you you say peace in Yemen is so close but how do you find the strength and courage to keep going when the price is so high and the odds are seemingly against you oh my god I am always I'm always optimistic on the dream of the people in my state in my country and I always believe in the will of them and I always believe on myself and on the others because of that I carry the flag off taking the initiative taking the responsibility I feel always that I am the responsible I am the one who should give the solution because of that I didn't care I didn't think what will happen to me and what will happen to my family to my kids even when they arrested me even when they tried to kill me even when they occupied my house the initiate occupied my house you know in the September 21st the first house that they provided it was my my house and Ali Saleh arrested me um threatened me threatened my family etc etc but always I think oh my god he think that he will kill my idea but do they think that if they do something wrong I mean something to me that I will stop no I should spread my feel I should spread my soul I should spread my will my insisting to the people so it's the courage for people I take the inspiration for the people from the people that I feel that I am responsible I am the one who responsible to save them so always telling myself telling my kids telling my colleagues telling the youth telling the woman be responsible be in front line don't tell it from anyone because you are the one who should save your country yes thank you Tahua call and thank you Mohammed for moderating today's event thank you to everyone it's for my English it's very great wonderful I just have a few last parting comments first of all for many of us who've been following Yemen and we're able to travel to Yemen in the past we hope for a peaceful resolution a time that we could join our friends in Yemen I remember fondly the time when I first arrived in 2011 and went to change square and met with the children and the women there and it was a pleasure to be there and I hope we'll be able to be there again and peace will come to your country and that'll be even closer than you after today's event I'm sure that many of you like me look to what can you do however small it may be to build 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