Yemen’s Higher Education Emergency and Resilient Professoriate

Yemen is home to a diverse set of indigenous cultural and scholarly traditions, as well as a large higher education system. Yet, six years of armed conflict – predated by years of political instability and economic suffering – has devastated the country and created the world’s worst higher education emergency.

James Robin King will offer a window into Yemen’s remarkable beauty before detailing the current crisis’s impact on university faculties and describing IIE-SRF’s response.

Yemen’s higher education community has been ravaged by more than five years of armed conflict, sectarianism, and a humanitarian crisis exacerbated by COVID-19. Daniel Munier Senior Program Officer of Scholars at Risk’s Advocacy team, will discuss the nature and impact of attacks on higher education in Yemen, SAR’s programming, and how, together, we can respond to a crisis that endangers the future of the Yemeni academic community.

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