Luca Nevola is a Senior Researcher with ACLED-Religion. He holds a PhD in Cultural Anthropology and he conducted fieldwork in Yemen between 2009 and 2013. He is also a researcher with the VERSUS project at the University of Sussex. Luca is fluent in Italian, Arabic, English, and French and he is based in Bergamo, Italy.
Yemen’s Fractured South: Aden, Abyan, and Lahij
In Yemen, more than five years of conflict have contributed to an extreme fragmentation of central power and authority and have eroded local political orders. Local structures of authority have emerged, along with a plethora of para-state agents and militias at the behest of local elites and international patrons.…