Fault Lines: Tracking Armed Violence in Yemen (YAVA Issue Brief 1)

Initiated in 2008, the Yemen Armed Violence Assessment (YAVA) comprises a multi-year field-based project designed to generate quantitative and qualitative analysis of the drivers and dynamics of armed violence in the country. The YAVA is designed to support efforts to prevent and reduce armed violence in Yemen, not least by the Yemeni government, which has taken significant steps in recent years to address weapons carrying in cities and constrain the arms trade.

Fault Lines: Tracking Armed Violence in Yemen, the first Yemen Issue Brief, reviews reported incidents of armed violence over the 12-month period between September 2008 and August 2009. Drawing on domestic Yemeni and international news accounts, the Issue Brief introduces a typology for analysing armed violence in the country.

See also the Supplement on media-reported armed violence in Yemen.

This Issue Brief is also available in ARABIC.

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