David Goessmann: Welcome to Contact City. We are here at the World Congress of the International Peace Bureau, “Disarm for a Climate of Peace,” at the Technical University of Berlin. Our next guest is Tawakol Karman.

Hallo and welcome to the Middle East question-and-answer series presented by the Middle East initiative and Harvard journal for Middle eastern politics and policy.

Aktivist Auszeichnung bestätigt den Friedensnobelpreisträger Karman, dass es Hoffnung für den Frieden im Jemen ist, zu sagen, dass die arabischen Frühling Länder gelitten "großen Verrat des Westens."

By Sudarsan Raghavan Yemeni journalist and activist Tawakkol Karman was the most prominent leader of the 2011 revolution in Yemen, part of the wave of uprisings that swept the Arab world five years ago and led to the ousting of longtime autocrat Ali Abdullah Saleh.

In the midst of what has been taking place in the Arab world nowadays, how do you think the celebration of the International Day of Peace could convey the language of peace?

Sadeq Al-Wesabi (author), Sadeq Al-Wesabi (photographer): Though Karman initially stepped out of the NDC, she is now a part of the Reconciliation Committee.

"In the absence of a free press, there is no democracy”