Der esrte Tag

October 7^th  was my my first day in this CrossCultre program at Pharos e.V. office.
I'll be working with Dr. Ragner Müller and he will supervise my whole work here as I mentioned before.

I'll write a comment about an article was published on August 2013 by SWP (The Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, it letterally means The Foundation for Science and Politics, but it's also calls German Institute for International and Security Affairs).
The article is "Yemen's Independent Youth and Their Role in the National Dialogue Conference" by Atiaf Zaid Alwazir. Click here to read the pdf article.

The article is more descriptive than analytic and I find few things I'd like to comment about:

I've a problem with the defined 'independent' members because I don't think most of them are. Mrs. Alwazir said: At least half of the NDC’s youth members fit the definition of independent youth.
I think they are much less than that percentage. All says about themselves independent, this is a real problem.

Alwazir said:Many Yemenis trust youth precisely because they stem from outside this inner circle.
Well, I totally disagree. I think and many people think that Youth are the weakest group, simply because they are being swallowed by the older inner political parts. They are easily mis-guided because of their immature political experience that Mrs. Alwazir mentioned it somewhere else in the article.

National Dialogue Conference logo

Alwazir also said: How-ever, none of the new youth parties were selected to participate. This led eight newly established parties to file a case against the NDC against their exclusion.
I feel sympathy with these new Youth parties, but I don't think they deserve to have their own members in the NDC because they are too small to enter  I mean there are tens of other older small parties didn't enter the NDC, so dis these small new parties. There was no elimination of any kind in my opinion.

Alwazir said in the end: Youth have established themselves as important actors who will surely be involved in the future political scene.
I think we are have the same hope, but reality always hit us directly in the face. The current situation in Yemen help only the already strong political parties. It's hard to get through this field in Yemen and make a real change. Yemen problem are almost too big to be solved. Alwazir did not focus on something very important dividing the whole country  It's not old and new political parties, it's not between the bad and good ones! It's between South and North of country. This is the real problem that divide Youth and all the other traditional parties. She should focus on this thing because it's the real problem that makes Yemen's problems too big to be solved!

*Picture is from the NDC official website.