This book provides an overview of the National Dialogue design process in fragile settings at the national, regional, and international levels in the MENA region. It provides a comparative analysis at the international level by examining the Yemeni NDC 2013 with those of Afghanistan and Ethiopia, and at the regional level, focusing on Iraq and Tunisia. It also goes beyond the traditional exploration of political and social conflicts by adding a rich theoretical layer of analysis of Humanitarian Aid and its contribution to war economies in the Arab region. Finally, it examines the news frames used in the coverage of the conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa and takes one step further to integrate a media lens by analysing the extent of the media coverage devoted to the Yemeni and Syrian wars by four prestigious European online news platforms. This incisive book presents a radical contrast between the on-ground reality of the conflicts in the region, distinguished by various social, political, economic, geographic, and humanitarian challenges, and its discordant abstract portrayal in European online media.
Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Theoretical, conceptual, and methodological frameworks.- Chapter 3. Wars and EU's Peace interventions in the international setting: Yemen Versus Afghanistan and Ethiopia.- Chapter 4. Wars and EU's Peace interventions in the regional setting: Yemen Versus Iraq and Tunisia.- Chapter 5. EU's peace interventions in the regional setting (MENA) and the effectiveness of Humanitarian Aid in Arab Region.- Chapter 6. Framing Conflict in the Middle East: Yemen and Syria in European Media.- Chapter 7. Conclusion.
Moosa Elayah is Assistant Professor of International Development, Peacebuilding and Conflict Studies at Doha Institute for Graduate Studies (Qatar).
