{"product_id":"yemen-in-the-shadow-of-transition-by-stacey-philbrick-yadav-9781787388130","title":"Yemen in the Shadow of Transition","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eResponding to a diplomatic stalemate and a catastrophic humanitarian crisis, Yemen's civil actors work every day to build peace in fragmented local communities across the country.\u003c\/strong\u003e This book shows how their efforts relate to longstanding justice demands in Yemeni society, and details three decades of alternating elite indifference toward, or strategic engagement with, questions of justice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eExploring the transformative impact of the 2011 uprising and Yemenis' substantive wrestling with questions of justice in the years that followed, leading Yemen scholar Stacey Philbrick Yadav shows how the transitional process was ultimately overtaken by war. She explains why features of the transitional framework nevertheless remain a central reference point for civil actors engaged in peacebuilding today. In the absence of a negotiated settlement, everyday peacebuilding has become a new site for justice work, as an arena in which civil actors enjoy agency and social recognition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on seventeen years of field research and interviews with civil actors, Yadav positions Yemen's non-combatants not—or not only—as victims of conflict, but as political agents imagining and enacting the justice they wish to see.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eYemen in the Shadow of Transition\u003c\/em\u003e provides a nuanced analysis of how civil engagement and justice initiatives are reshaping Yemeni society in the midst of ongoing conflict.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47537514414316,"sku":"9781787388130","price":115.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/14bcf7e9f935b919e93b361d8ab2144a.jpg?v=1776901017","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/yemen-in-the-shadow-of-transition-by-stacey-philbrick-yadav-9781787388130","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}