Outlines of my Future Project
Terrorism in Yemen is an ongoing issue for the last two decades until the present day. The terrorism in Yemen has two factions. The first faction arose in the late eighties and early nineties when the Mujahideen came back from fighting the Soviet Union through the Cold War. Most of those soldiers went back to their normal life but those who didn’t start to establish their branch of al-Qaeda in Yemen. The second faction was created when the ex-president of Yemen decided to weaken the Muslim Brotherhood movement, and established the youth believers movement which was led by the former leader of the Al-Houthis movement. These are currently rebels supported by Iran’s religious regime. Throughout Islamic history, Yemen had a moderate ideology, and all it’s accepted doctrines tended to reject radicalism; those two radical movements found fertile land to invest their thoughts in. As it is known, Yemen is a non-developed country, and unemployment is one of the highest from amongst the region, besides more than half of the population is illiterate. The poverty and illiteracy can produce a unique kind of terrorism through the political crisis and the carelessness of its leaders. The solution which must follow in Yemen is easy to practice because the nature of the people there, has been known to be tolerant.
If we focus on Yemen’s situation and study most effective factors that motivate the youth to get involved in the radical insurgency groups, we will find that those are: the lack of education, poverty, the total absence of the steady state and the lack of awareness of the consequences of terrorism. We need a proper strategy to eliminate terrorism forever.
Dr. Jasem Sultan pointed to a great principle in the state management called the parallel props. This policy depends on the parallelism of the countries development. In Yemen, we need to build all the pillars of state infrastructure together to avoid the weakness in the state that leads youth to fall into terrorist ideologies. This strategy I call homegrown anti-terrorism. Instead of military intervention, which has proven to exacerbate the problem of violence such as in Iraq and Afghanistan, the international community needs to support Yemen by allowing its autonomy in handling its issues and by supporting it in eliminating the root causes of terrorism that I listed, by creating a strong stable state. This will eliminate the threat of insurgency groups. Improving upon this area will help us to clean our society of terrorism and it’s consequences and purge the community of the evil ideology. In addition, it will promote regional stability and will improve and protect the international trade movement between the East and the West.