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Where Have all the Revolutionaries Gone?

Wed, June 7th, 2017

Washington, DC

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Tunisia Monitor

Carnegie’s Tunisia Monitor project tracks the status of the country’s transition in the economic, political, and security spheres. This project provides original analysis and policy recommendations from a network of Tunisian contributors and Carnegie experts to inform decisionmakers in Tunisia, Europe, and the United States. This endeavor is supported by a grant from the Open Society Foundations.

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The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Brookings Institution co-hosted an event to launch Carnegie Fellow Sarah Yerkes’ Brookings analysis paper, “Where Have all the Revolutionaries Gone?” In the paper, Yerkes asks why young, non-Islamist Tunisians have abstained from participating in formal politics since the Tunisian revolution, and assesses the effect of this trend on the health of Tunisia’s democracy. She analyzes the growing divide between young people and their government, an issue that has taken on greater importance over the past month, as Tunisian authorities struggle with how to address the massive protests in the country’s southern regions. They were joined for the discussion of these issues by Asma Ghribi, a Tunisian journalist and researcher who has covered the transition for a variety of Tunisian and international outlets. 

North AfricaTunisiaPolitical ReformDemocracyCivil Society

Event Speakers

Sarah Yerkes
Senior Fellow, Middle East Program
Sarah Yerkes
Asma Ghribi
Tamara Wittes

Carnegie does not take institutional positions on public policy issues; the views represented herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of Carnegie, its staff, or its trustees.

Event Speakers

Sarah Yerkes

Senior Fellow, Middle East Program

Sarah Yerkes

Sarah Yerkes is a senior fellow in Carnegie’s Middle East Program, where her research focuses on Tunisia’s political, economic, and security developments as well as state-society relations in the Middle East and North Africa.

Asma Ghribi

Tamara Wittes

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