Responding to Dubai’s efforts to increase the number of Emirati families, Coates Ulrichsen said, “If the initiative is to succeed it will have to be wrapped within a broader package of support and targeted assistance to Emirati households to enable them to juggle the burdens of work-life balance.”
Displacement is all too familiar to Palestinians. Today, there are about 6 million Palestinian refugees scattered across three countries, the West Bank and the besieged Gaza Strip. “I think up until this current conflict, it has kind of been a forgotten issue,” said Norman. “It’s seen as this just unresolvable displacement, ongoing for multiple generations without an end in sight.”
The rift between Saudi Arabia and Qatar has been gradually repaired, but Qatar still focuses on network building to protect its interests. When the rift began, “the perception in Doha was that Saudi and Emirati officials had invested heavily in building relationships not only with members of the Trump administration but also in their lobbying activities in the United States, and that Qatar needed to do the same,” said Coates Ulrichsen.
Eyre participated in a panel on brain capital at the Argentinian Congress on Dec. 18, 2023. (Article is in Spanish.)
For the UAE, COP28 was not just about environmental benefits, said Coates Ulrichsen.
“The UAE invested a lot of political and diplomatic capital in COP28 and wanted precisely this kind of landmark statement that would associate the UAE with setting the global agenda and forging a new consensus for the road ahead.”