Methodology
This report is based on the author’s 16 years of expertise working with tribes in Yemen. The author has been investigating the impact of the conflict on tribes since 2011 and has written several papers and reports on the subject. Since 2014, the author has made over a dozen trips into tribal areas in Yemen, where she met with hundreds of sheikhs, tribal members, civil society leaders, and security actors. Additional interviews were conducted during March 2020-March 2021 with 48 individuals, including 23 tribal leaders, 13 civil society representatives and youth activists, four local authority figures, and eight security officials in Marib, al-Jawf, Baydha, Shabwa, Abyan, and Lahj.