Ethnic Divisions and the Onset of Civil Wars in Syria

Abosedra, Salah; Fakih, Ali; Haimoun, Nathir

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3762893

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“…Since the outbreak of the civil war, Syrian schools have suffered from significant deterioration in their performance due to lack of funding and government resources, the state of security instability that the country has experienced for more than a decade, and the closure of a large number of schools (Qaddour and Husain, 2022). The civil war had a significant negative impact on the Syrian society, resulting in a political division of regions and social divisions, which negatively affected the social cohesion of the Syrian society (Abosedra et al, 2020). This was reflected in the education communities, which began to suffer from the consequences of social and political divisions (TDA, 2022).…”

Section: Schools In the Syrian Contextmentioning

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School-to-school partnerships: an approach to improving Syrian schools in post-conflict recovery

Alkalash,

Alkalash

2024

IJEM

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PurposeThis research seeks to highlight school partnerships as an approach to improving schools and halting the deterioration of their performance in an environment that has suffered from the consequences of conflict for more than a decade.Design/methodology/approachThe research used the qualitative method, and the data were collected through semi-structured interviews with 20 school leaders and teachers.FindingsThe results showed the presence of positive attitudes toward inter-school partnerships and their perception of many benefits, the most prominent of which was increasing social cohesion in school and surrounding communities that suffer from divisions resulting from conflict. A set of obstacles includes legislative obstacles, a low degree of autonomy, low competency of school leaders, a lack of trust and incentives.Originality/valueThis study proposes a range of solutions to address the challenges associated with building partnerships. The research emphasizes the significance the school-to-school partnerships and their positive role in improving the performance of schools in developing countries, especially in environments suffering from the consequences of civil wars and social divisions.

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Section: Schools In the Syrian Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

School-to-school partnerships: an approach to improving Syrian schools in post-conflict recovery

Alkalash,

Alkalash

2024

IJEM

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“…One example of a tangent, but profound intercommunity and intracommunity schism is that between ISIS-connected tribes/families and neighbouring communities of ISIS victims, 35 36 which occurred mostly along prior intertribal or agrarian-pastoral conflicts. 37 Many other conflicts were aggravated along sectarian, 38 ethnic 39 and tribal schisms 40 with increasing insecurities bringing about ever-narrowing definitions and narratives of ‘us vs them’. 41 For example, the intercommunity conflict in Southern Syria between Swaida and Dara’a residents with tit-for-tat kidnapping and severing of traditional socioeconomic relations between neighbouring towns, despite a limited and remote history of direct conflict.…”

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Power dynamics and health initiative design as determinants of peacebuilding: a case study of the Syrian conflict

AlGhatrif¹,

Darwish

Alzoubi³

et al. 2022

BMJ Glob Health

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Peace-through-health has emerged as a promising concept but with variable evidence of success. Cooptation of health initiatives in conflict is believed to be a major challenge undermining peacebuilding potential. We examine the role that existing power structures and health initiative characteristics play at various levels of a conflict in peacebuilding outcomes. Using the Syrian conflict as a case study, we assess healthcare initiatives’ characteristics and their peacebuilding tendencies accounting for power dynamics at the (1) state citizen, (2) interbelligerents and (3) intercommunity conflict levels, drawing on the WHO’s framework for health and peace initiatives. Healthcare interventions at state citizen and interbelligerent levels generally addressed combat-related and material-dependent health needs, relied on large-scale international funding and centralised governance structures, and bestowed credit to specific agencies with political implications. These characteristics made such initiatives prone to cooptation in conflict with limited peacebuilding capacity. Healthcare initiatives at the community level addressed more basic, service-dependent needs, had smaller budgets, relied on local organisations and distributed credit across stakeholders, making them less amenable to cooptation in the conflict with more propeace potential. A pilot peacebuilding health initiative designed to leverage these propeace attributes navigated the political environment, minimised cooptation and fostered community collaboration, resulting in peacebuilding potential. In summary, peacebuilding health initiatives are more likely to materialise at the community as compared with higher political levels. Further studies, accounting for conflict power structures, are needed to examine the effectiveness of such initiatives and identify methods that maximise their peacebuilding outcomes.

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Conflict forecasting using remote sensing data: An application to the Syrian civil war

Racek¹,

Thurner

Davidson

et al. 2024

International Journal of Forecasting

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Ethnic Divisions and the Onset of Civil Wars in Syria

Cited by 5 publications

References 25 publications

School-to-school partnerships: an approach to improving Syrian schools in post-conflict recovery

School-to-school partnerships: an approach to improving Syrian schools in post-conflict recovery

Power dynamics and health initiative design as determinants of peacebuilding: a case study of the Syrian conflict

Conflict forecasting using remote sensing data: An application to the Syrian civil war

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