Spotlight on Yemen's forgotten war and humanitarian disaster : Preventing the next Syrian refugee crisis

Such changes are widely evident in the growing rivalry between China and the United States in the Asia-Pacific and the emergence of new economic powers in the region, such as Indonesia; the divergent ways Canada, Russia and the United States perceive Arctic security as melting ice opens up the Northwest Passage; continuing debates about the Jacqueline Lopour is a research associate in CIGI’s human [...] At CIGI, her new crises in Africa and the Middle East; and new research interests include exploring major security areas of concern such as cyber warfare and the challenges in the Middle East, South Asia and security of the Internet. [...] Iv • CENTRE FOR INTERNATIONAL GOvERNANCE INNOvATION SPOTLIGHT ON YEMEN’S FORGOTTEN WAR AND HUMANITARIAN DISASTER ACRONYMS the current crisis — will undoubtedly look to the rest of the world, including the United States and Canada, to share in AQAP Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula this new refugee burden. [...] International support for UN-initiated peace talks — to include pressure on Saudi Arabia and Iran, who EXECUTIVE SUMMARY are both active players in the Yemen conflict — is equally Yemen’s humanitarian situation is arguably the worst essential to mitigating Yemen’s humanitarian disaster, humanitarian crisis in the world and the world is looking ending the conflict, and ensuring that Yemen’s displac [...] The Houthis claim their goals are to end religious and political discrimination against the Zaydi Shia and protest The figures and statistics in this paper are current as of the Yemeni government’s relationship with the United March 1, 2016 unless otherwise specified, but analysis of 2 • CENTRE FOR INTERNATIONAL GOvERNANCE INNOvATION SPOTLIGHT ON YEMEN’S FORGOTTEN WAR AND HUMANITARIAN DISASTER Sta