Uncertainty surrounds the current peace efforts to end the Yemeni conflict that has extended for more than eight years, and the options available to the conflicting parties between imposing a fait accompli by some forces, and the consensual approaches called for by other components.

The widening gap between the positions of the parties to the conflict and their perceptions of the future of Yemen represents one of the most important challenges to achieving peace, according to Dr. Abdul Aziz Jaber, a Yemeni researcher in political media.

In his reading of the dichotomy of war and peace, and the continuing Saudi efforts to lay the foundations for sustainable peace in Yemen, Jaber believes that the failure of peace efforts places the country before a complex scene, a high state of uncertainty, and real threats whose impact may reach the Red Sea and the Bab al-Mandab Strait. And the Arabian Sea, which represents an artery for the global economy.

A consensus formula between the parties

Dr. Abdul Aziz Jaber confirms that through a careful reading of the positions of the active forces in the scene of war and peace in Yemen, it becomes clear that reconciling the parties to the conflict and their different perceptions about achieving a lasting and sustainable peace and ending the conflict and war in Yemen seems so far to be a difficult and complex task.

According to Jaber, this is due to “most of them refuse to accept the fact that they are not able to impose their vision on other parties, and that they are forced to reach a consensus formula and approaches, and this is due to the fact that the parties to the conflict lack political realism.”

He added: “Through the work of each party to the conflict to consolidate its authority in the areas of its control, and to establish special security, military and economic arrangements there, and specifically the Houthi group, which imposed regulations, laws and curricula in the areas of its control in line with its sectarian dynastic ideology, this “The major changes represent a major obstacle in and of themselves that will take a lot of time and effort to deal with and agree on a mechanism for resolving, and their continuation conflicts with efforts to bring peace to Yemen.”