Energy Injustice and Its Role for Environmental Peacebuilding
Publisher: Center for Applied Research in Partnership with the Orient
Author(s): Ahmad Al-Wadaey, Tobias Zumbrägel, and Ali Alamudi
Date: 2023
Topics: Climate Change, Conflict Causes, Extractive Resources, Governance, Weapons, Waste, and Pollution
Countries: Yemen
This report discusses the crucial but understudied impact of oil extraction in- dustries on local communities and the environment in Yemen’s Hadhramawt governorate. By combining conceptual approaches of energy justice and the environmental peacebuilding literature, it provides a novel perspective on how environmental pollution via the oil industry in Yemen creates injustices and grievances and might hamper sustainable peace efforts. Using a mixed method approach of both quantitative and qualitative analyses, the empirical assess- ment in two districts of Hadhramawt governorate, Tarim and Sah, confirms as- sumptions about widespread and severe oil pollution negatively impacting the local population. Based on a household survey and additional expert interviews, it further describes potential avenues for remediation that offer recommenda- tions for concrete action on environmental peacebuilding strategies.