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During the Cold War, the Norwegians living on their side of the border and the Soviets on the other side had this cross-

Ambassador Aas: With the annexation of Crimea, a piece of land belonging to another European country, Russia has

bordering activity that amounted to some 10,000 border crossings every year — now it’s 400,000. So the people-

grossly violated international law and that is why sanctions will be continued. There is still some important international

to-people contact is an important element in our bilateral relations, and it works. All the northern countries, and

cooperation with Russia, such as on Iran.

Diplomatic Connections: When they see the financial and other problems that roil the European Union, do Norwegians ever have a sense of “there but for the grace of God, go we?” You’re a northern country, with northern values, a northern work ethic, a northern philosophy, a sense of frugality, and you disengaged very early on through a referendum from this union which is suffering, at least partly, because its southern members had a not entirely logical approach towards the business of running their economies.

Russia, Canada, and the United States, we have a common understanding to maintain the Arctic as a stable region.

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The Summit, hosted by Obama, addressed national, regional and global initiatives to counter ISIL and the spread of violent extremism.

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We have a national consensus on that, which is why we have been gradually moving into the northern parts of Norway since we started the oil and gas venture in the late 1960s.

Diplomatic Connections: Isn’t there also a security dimension as well? Doesn’t Norway, together with other Scandinavian countries, keep a watchful eye on Russian activity in the Arctic?

Ambassador Aas: What I will say about that is that Norway has been living with Russia for 1,000 years — and living peacefully with Russia for 1,000 years. But we are very critical of what [the Russians] have been doing by annexing the Crimea, and what they are doing in the eastern parts of Ukraine; we are imposing the same sanctions as the U.S. and everybody else. We have postponed our military cooperation with Russia, but what is also important is that we maintain good cooperation with Russia, for instance, on administering the fishing in the Barents Sea, where there was overfishing in the 1970s and 1980s. Now fishing is based on harvesting, mostly because we have a bilateral understanding with Russia. We also have an understanding on what I would call nuclear spill from old Soviet nuclear submarines — so that also is working.

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Ambassador Mubarak Seeks to Stabilize and Reconstruct War-Torn Yemen

By James A. Winship, Ph.D.

What a difference a year makes!

H.E. Dr. Ahmed Awad bin Mubarak presented his credentials as Ambassador of the Republic of Yemen to the United States to President Obama in August 2015.

In January 2015, Dr. Ahmed Awad bin Mubarak was the Director of Yemeni President Hadi’s presidential office and custodian of a long

Acceptance of Mubarak’s credentials brought to an end a three-year hiatus in Yemen’s diplomatic representation in Washington caused by tumultuous political events in that country, which resulted in the resignation of the long-time Yemeni Ambassador in Washington. Still, the country’s diplomacy was left in the complicated position of having the internationally recognized government of President

national reconciliation process that sought to

Hadi, operating either from exile in Saudi Arabia or from

rebuild Yemen out of a pastiche of regional

his temporary Yemeni capital in Aden, representing it in Washington even as that government was being contested in Yemen.

fragments, traditional loyalties and dashed hopes of government reform. On January 17,

Ambassador Mubarak’s role in Washington assumes considerable importance because Yemen’s local conflict has become a proxy war between the major contesting regional powers – Iran and Saudi Arabia. Moreover, Yemen’s location in the southwest corner of the Arabian Peninsula

2015, Mubarak was kidnapped and held prisoner for 12 days by a rebel group opposed to a new

and astride international shipping routes passing from the Arabian Sea through the Bab el Mandeb Strait and into the Red Sea leading to the Suez Canal gives it outsized geostrategic importance to international energy supply lines and to developments in the Horn of Africa.

federal constitution for Yemen. He was kept

What was historically an internal conflict, characterized by deep fragmentation between communities and social

blindfolded and moved from place to place

groups with perceived cultural differences and conflicting territorial claims, created a power vacuum across Yemen

around the country before his release.

that provided fertile ground for extremist groups and terrorist activities, including the emergence of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). Yemen’s corner of the Arabian Peninsula has now become a theater in the global

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effort to resist Islamic extremism and the terrorist attacks it spawns.

These factors have served to internationalize the conflict in Yemen: attracting the attention of the United States, which staged drone aircraft there; bringing Iran to the assistance of rebel forces known as the Houthis with heavy weapons and other resources. This, in turn, drew in a Saudi Arabian-led coalition of regional Arab states from the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) that has engaged in an extensive air war against the rebels and expanded to include forces on the ground.

The multilayered civil conflict in Yemen is characterized by historical enmities between tribes, harsh and varied geography that ranges from isolated mountains to sea coasts, cultural differences, limited resources and disparate colonial histories between the country’s North and South.

Yemen as a locale, as an idea in people’s minds – “I am Yemeni,” – preceded the idea of Yemen as a nation-state.

Building a modern state on top of traditional structures

Diplomatic Connections: Yemen, is deeply torn by political strife and violence at the moment. The elected President of Yemen, President Abed Rabbo Mansur Hadi, has just returned to Yemen after being in exile for several months in Saudi Arabia. Given the terribly disrupted situation in your country, who do you represent here in Washington at this point?

Ambassador Mubarak: I am representing the Republic and people of Yemen, and its leadership constituting the legitimate government of Yemen. President Hadi, the elected president of our country, represents legitimacy and also the interests of the people.

Diplomatic Connections: You hold a Ph.D. in Business Administration and an MBA from the University of Baghdad. You began your career as an academic at Sana’a University. How did you make your way into politics and diplomacy work?

Ambassador Mubarak: I must say that I miss the nice days of being an academician. But, at the same time I have been fascinated to link the realities of politics and diplomacy with the theoretical insights that I gained in my academic training.

of rule that involve primarily family, clan, tribe . . . and

In 2011, Yemenis, mainly the young people started voicing

regions is like trying to put together a puzzle on top of a puzzle.

A graphic in a recent edition of a major international

their demands in the street. “Change Square,” where youth mounted their protest against the government of Yemen, was right next to the university. I could see it from my

news publication characterized Yemen as one of the

office. I found myself captivated, wanting to be a part of the

“failed states” in the Middle East and North Africa region.

The other two are Syria and Libya. Ambassador Mubarak, however, is unwilling to accept that description. He still

revolution. Many of those young people were my students.

believes in the vision of a federal Yemen with a new constitution that tolerates substantial regional autonomy while preserving the historical heritage of Yemen, mending the political fabric of the country, rejecting extremism, limiting foreign interference and rebuilding a national economy that can be integrated into the global trading system.

Ambassador Mubarak was kind enough to grant Diplomatic Connections his first formal interview in the United States. We explored with him the complexities of

Diplomatic Connections: Was that the beginning of the “Arab Spring” in Yemen?

Ambassador Mubarak: Yemenis began voicing their concerns about the actions of their national government and calling for reform long before the Arab Spring began in Tunisia in 2011. In 2007, the Hirak Movement or Southern Mobility Movement began to voice a demand for regional autonomy, even secession from Yemen’s North. [NOTE: The northern and southern portions of Yemen were only united under a single national government in 1990. These areas had very different colonial histories and came to independence under very

the situation in Yemen, and he offered us insights into past events, into the ways those events have frequently been

different circumstances.] Our first dialogue about the future of

misunderstood in the international press, and possible future directions for his country. All leavened with persistent

I was on the university faculty, and found myself in sympathy

optimism and a measure of hope, tempered by realism.

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ation Specifically, the Transport (TPCB) Planning Capacity Building ve effort of Program is a collaborati tion the Federal Transit Administra Highway Federal (FTA) and the with various Administration (FHWA) organizations public and private Program was including AMPO. The regional, local, State, created to help transit operaand tribal governments, u–find tors, and community leaders–yo issues ways to resolve the complex transyou face daily when addressing communities. It’s true, portation needs in your government and we we are from the Federal really are here to help.

needs. promote "SMaRT The TPCB staff for the Statewide, Transportation Planning" small communities, Metropolitan, Rural and planning settings. and Tribal transportation outreach meetings to We hold stakeholder the needs of their conlearn from our partners act upon feedback stituents. We ask for and that you get the inforensure to us to provided mation you need.

and Linking Travel Modeling Land Use: AMPO’s Travel Modeling Subcommittee Meets to Share Expertise New DeLania Hardy Named AMPO Executive Director Multimodal Corridor Solutions: Planning in Advance of Funding AMPO Survey Results: Coordinated Human Services Transpor tation nt Diesel and the Environme Contributing to America's Clean Air Progress STEP2 - Moving from Aggregate Models to ulation Household Microsim Membership Section Member Spotlight

ning.dot.gov is The TPCB website www.plan program. Through the 24-hour face of the transportation the needs of our The TPCB Program provides revisions made to serve resources in a numplanning information and areas. Beginning with ber of cross-cutting topic availpreviously existing planning resources and FTA we have able through the FHWA more diverse resource expanded to include a our commitment is to base for you. Part of a variety of provide information through al and deciprofession different media to reach These media include sion-making audiences. as well as materials print and electronic media ies at TPCB that support dialogue opportunit TPCB Program pron events. organizatio On a practical level, the partner Program and materials, trainavailable vides publications, resource stakeholders, we are increasing technical assistance Institute (NHI ing, workshops, and other Site visitors will find Through the National Highway resources and subjects. and programs that ov/default.asp) and to help you create plans four main planning - www.nhi.fhwa.dot.g brief introductions to the your local transporta(NTI - www.ntionby information respond to the needs of National Transit Institute settings which are enhanced We are a central are tion system and its users. training courses and workshops into subject areas, resources, line.com), referand categorized n that informatio to meet your changing transportation planning specific to each being revised or created publications, and programs our own publicaareas being added to ral resource. We generate goes even further by needs. Some of the course planning setting. The site share yours. We want planning are: tions and materials and links to resources enhance transportation providing information and needs as well as lestion Planning, Public to learn from you – your tion planning practiMetropolitan Transporta of interest for transporta we can share with Planning and NEPA, sons you’ve learned that include: Involvement, Linking tioners. Resource areas tion Transporta the into others.

Integrating Freight • Funding Issues, Statewide Planning.

Planning Process, and multi-faceted. We want • Communities two to four day Our Program goals are These courses provide formal d information • Community Design, planning topics. to provide you the backgroun t, training sessions on various understanding of the • Community Impact Assessmen based courses needed to enhance your These instructor-led, classroomprocess, your role • Job Access, transtransportation planning the fundamentals for successful provide comto p its relationshi • Public Involvement, within the process, and Justice, portation planning. also want to We • Title VI/Environmental goals. societal munity and Resources, skills in consensus • Natural and Cultural materials include help you strengthen your resource ing Processes, Forthcom guidance, and tech• Operations, ITS, Planning transportation planbuilding, planning policy tion, Smart reports on land use and training and peer• Land Use and Transporta transit supportive nical job elements through ning, financial planning, Growth, and operations and planto-peer programs. land use development, • GIS and Modeling Tools. use and public health, ning support, and land and expand as our The list continues to grow TPCB Program Priorities materials provide the their needs. among others. These share partners tion transporta stakeholders and or showcase effec• Easy to find answers to results of applied research learn about? Let us What do you want to the nation. On hand planning questions tive practices from across r needs know!

MPOs, public involve• Responsive to practitione are case studies for new funding for trancontinued on page 2 • Flexible approaches ment evaluation, and flexible g • Peer-to-peer networkin sit operators. learning • Commitment to continued

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Federal Funding Ensures Powerful Research for Both the Regulators and the Regulated

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A Catalyst for Collaboration

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The Foundation to Succeed

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Federal Investment in WERF Research Drives Technology Forward

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Advancing Water Science

1989

The Water Environment Research Foundation (WERF) is incorporated, known at that time as the Water n Pollution Control Federatio Research Foundation.

1991

WERF is awarded its first federal grant for water quality research.

2002

Following 9/11, WERF receives a multi-million dollar EPA of grant to develop an array security products to protect public health and the nation’s wastewater infrastructure humanand from both natural induced disasters. Photo by Anthony Quintano.

2003

EPA releases Water Quality Trading Policy based on WERF research, potentially saving hundreds of millions of dollars each year.

2003

WERF hosts the Biosolids Research Summit, bringing together concerned citizens, biosolids critics, utilities, land , appliers, regulators, scientists in a and engineers – resulting to research and funding path help ensure public safety.

2003

2004

WERF takes stewardship of er the International Stormwat BMP Database which contains more than 500 case studies, tools, and resources for agricultural, residential, and urban use.

2007

2011

WERF publishes updated lity guidance on use attainabi analysis, providing more efficient and cost-effective methodology, which is accepted by EPA and still relied upon today.

2012

2013

WERF nutrient research informs U.S. EPA’s new recommended recreational water quality criteria for states.

2015

WERF publishes a report demonstrating that a paradigm shift is possible, to moving deammonification mainstream implementation.

Federal funds help WERF establish the National Research Center for Resource Recovery and Nutrient Management, providing innovative solutions for reclaiming nutrients and reducing loads.

2004

WERF releases results of longterm, multi-project research studies, helping wastewater treatment plants prevent and control odors.

EPA uses WERF study on mercury emissions in biosolids incinerators in development of final rules, helping water resource recovery facilities in save more than $1.5 billion implementation costs.

2007

EPA updates aquatic life ambient freshwater quality criteria for copper to the biotic ligand model, based on a more accurate, site-specific approach developed by WERF research.

WERF releases study on narrative criteria for total maximum daily loads, improving evaluation of waterbodies for impairment.

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