Yemen’s military-security reform: seeds of new conflict

On 21 March 2011, amid popular unrest, Yemen’s military fractured along intra-regime battle lines. In response a UN-sponsored implementation document outlined a transition roadmap that includes three principal tasks: holding a national dialogue with the goal of producing a new constitution before elections are held in February 2014; addressing issues of transitional justice; and unifying as well as reforming the armed forces. A year into the transition, some progresshas been made yet the military-security apparatus remains divided. A wide range of activists alsoworry that the military-security apparatus will be further politicised during a fragile period in which the government is split between rival political factions. Extracting the military-security services from the political realm is a critical challenge that, if not met, could threaten Yemen’s transition. This document includes a number of recommendations aimed at all stakeholders in the process.

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Yemen’s military-security reform: seeds of new conflict