Dialogue Platforms
Spaces for Dialogue, Trust-Building, and Shared Understanding.
The Sana’a Center convenes dialogue platforms that facilitate knowledge exchange, build cumulative learning, and foster informed policy dialogue on Yemen. Our platforms bring together high-level political representatives and policymakers, alongside experts, practitioners, tribal leaders, women leaders, civil society actors, youth, and local actors.
These platforms function as spaces for open exchange, collective problem-solving, and the gradual development of shared understanding across diverse stakeholders. By linking Yemeni voices to regional and international policy conversations, our platforms help generate practical insights, strengthen collaboration, and contribute to locally informed and context-sensitive approaches to peacebuilding.
Yemen International Forum
The Yemen International Forum (YIF) is the Sana’a Center’s flagship Forum and the largest convening on Yemen since the National Dialogue Conference.
2022 — Active
Red Sea Dialogues
The Red Sea Dialogues (RSD) is an independent platform that places Yemen at the heart of regional discussions on Red Sea security.
2024 — Active
Political Dialogues for National Cohesion
Political Dialogues for National Cohesion is a Track 1.5 dialogue platform that strengthens political cohesion, engagement, and shared understanding among Yemen’s political actors.
2020 — 2025
The Yemen Peace Forum
The Yemen Peace Forum (YPF) is a platform dedicated to empowering the next generation of Yemeni youth, women, and civil society leaders to engage in peacebuilding and policy processes.
2019 — Active
Strategic Thinking Groups
Strategic Thinking Groups (STGs) are locally led platforms that strengthen social cohesion, collaboration, and peacebuilding at governorate and cross-governorate levels.
2020 — 2024
Peace Incubator
The Peace Incubator is a collaborative platform that connects Yemeni experts and practitioners with national, regional, and international peacebuilding actors across four thematic communities of practice: Political Transformation, Economic Recovery, Transitional Justice, and Environment.
2022 — Active
Development Champions
Development Champions is a platform that brings together senior Yemeni leaders in the economy, social development, and policy to positively influence decision-making on Yemen's economic recovery and development priorities.
2017 — Active
Yemen–Gulf Connectivity Dialogue
The Yemen–Gulf Connectivity Dialogue is a platform exploring Yemen’s role in the Gulf and Red Sea region through the lens of geoeconomics and geosecurity.
2025 — Active
Yemen Justice Network
The Yemen Justice Network ( YJN) is a coalition of Yemeni and international civil society organizations, victims’ and survivors’ groups, scholars, and practitioners working to advance justice and reconciliation within Yemen’s broader peace process.
2025 — Active
Tribal Dialogue Platform
The Tribal Dialogue Platform is a space bringing together Yemeni tribal leaders, including a dedicated group of tribal women leaders, to engage in discussions on peacebuilding, de-escalation, mediation, and local conflict resolution.
2019 — 2021
Women and Youth Leadership and Policy Platform
The Women and Youth Leadership and Policy Platform promotes knowledge production as a tool for inclusion, dialogue, and peacebuilding.
2025 — Active
Women in the Public Sphere
The Women in the Public Sphere is an initiative focused on addressing the challenges faced by Yemeni women in the public sphere and the impact of shrinking civic space on their participation in public life, democratic processes, and civil society.
2022 — Active
Justice and Reconciliation Advisory Board
The Justice and Reconciliation Advisory Board is an advisory body of Yemeni and international experts and practitioners that provides analysis, guidance, and recommendations on accountability, redress, and social repair to inform locally grounded post-conflict processes.
2025 — Active
The Yemen Exchange
The Yemen Exchange is a collaboration between the Sana’a Center and The Exchange Foundation, launched in 2017 as a learning platform providing participants with direct access to Yemeni perspectives, analysis, and expertise on the country’s political, economic, social, and security dynamics. The program has completed twelve rounds and has brought together participants from around the world seeking a deeper understanding of Yemen.
2017 — Active