Carly A. Krakow is a writer, researcher, and activist, and currently a PhD Candidate in International Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her writing has appeared in publications including Al Jazeera, openDemocracy, Truthout, and the academic journal Water. Carly’s research focuses on environmental injustice and human rights in contexts of statelessness and displacement. Over several periods of fieldwork in the West Bank, she has investigated the law and politics of water access and exposure to environmental toxins. Her research has also included fieldwork in South Africa, analyzing the impacts of Cape Town’s water crisis on the city’s most marginalized communities, and in Greece, examining living conditions and access to healthcare for refugees and displaced people. She earned her MPhil in International Relations and Politics from the University of Cambridge and her BA in Human Rights Law, Environmental Policy, and Comparative Literature from NYU.
Helen Lackner is a visiting fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations and a research associate at SOAS, University of London. She was the 2016 Sir William Luce Fellow at Durham University. Her latest book is Yemen in Crisis: The Road to War published in the US by Verso in 2019 and by al Maraya in Arabic in January 2020. She has published numerous articles and has contributed chapters to a number of recent and forthcoming books on Yemen on topics including the UN role in Yemen, and Yemeni water issues, social structure, and political developments. She edited Why Yemen Matters: A Society in Transition (Saqi Books 2014) and other books. She is a regular contributor to openDemocracy, Arab Digest, and Oxford Analytica. She also speaks on the Yemen crisis in many public events in Europe and the Middle East.
