ISH Panel: ‘Scotland & the Arms Trade’ | Yasmin Luqman & Kate Nevens
Channel: Campaign Against Arms Trade
Date: 11/04/2021

ISH Panel: ‘Scotland & the Arms Trade’ | Yasmin Luqman & Kate Nevens

Our It Starts Here Conference returns for another year - this time revamped (and digital)!

We were excited to continue our jam-packed Saturday programme with our fourth panel of the day.
In theory, Scotland should be leading the way in opposition to the UK’s arms industry; but in practice, the Scottish government has poured millions from the public purse into companies that fuel conflict and support repression around the world. In this panel, our speakers dissected Scotland’s contribution to the UK’s arms industry and how we should be engaging affected communities and the defence workers being left behind to build real resistance and bring an end to the deadly arms trade.

The panel was moderated by Emma Cockburn, Scotland Co-ordinator at Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT).


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Yasmin Luqman is a British Yemeni activist living and working in Edinburgh, Scotland. She completed her MSc in International Relations of the Middle East with Arabic at the University of Edinburgh in 2019 and researched and wrote her dissertation on the challenges faced by female activists, journalists, and political leaders in Yemen over the last decade. Yasmin is a Beyond Borders UNSC 1325 Women in Conflict fellow and she has experience speaking on panels and BBC Radio Scotland on the varied roles of Yemeni women in seeking peace and justice and how Scotland must divest from the arms trade.


Kate Nevens is a freelance facilitator and researcher with over a decade of working with youth, women and human rights activists in the Middle East, including Yemen. She is a non-staff member of CAAT UK's steering committee, as well as an active volunteer with the CAAT Edinburgh group. She is currently a Scottish Green Party candidate for Lothian for the upcoming Scottish Parliamentary elections. Kate has previously worked as MENA Programme Manager at Chatham House, Head of the MENA Programme at Saferworld and Programme Director at Amnesty International in Scotland.