Syrian Requiem

Rábinovich, Itamar; Valensi, Carmit

doi:10.1515/9780691212616

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“…A series of protest events against Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad took place and even after these protests were repressed by the Syrian state security forces they persisted (Sorenson, 2016). Escalating conditions of violence eventually led to a situation in which state violence was countered by the mobilization of formal and informal militias and this context eventually evolved into the multi-faceted civil war that would define the next decade of Syrian life (Rabinovich & Valensi, 2021).…”

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“…Though it may be unwise to dismiss or deprioritize state response as an explanatory factor, what is just as interesting is the way that violence was sustained in Syria (Rabinovich & Valensi, 2021) and, in contrast, how a relative form of peace and stability was sustained in Tunisia (Malouche, 2019). Taking into account this more longitudinal understanding of the decade following the Arab Spring, there is space to understand the differences between the two identified cases as not just a simple result of two alternative regime responses, or of international action, but of the complex social dynamics at play in each location, including expectations around the performances of gender roles.…”

Section: Violencementioning

confidence: 99%

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Be a man: A theory of climate change, masculinities and violence

Francis

2024

Environment and Security

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Experts increasingly agree that the impacts of climate change are likely to create new violent conflict risks and exacerbate existing ones. However, the extent of this link and the specific causal pathways are much less clear, and the role of gender in this process is under-examined. This paper theorizes that gendered norms, especially the expectations of how men perform their masculinities, are an intervening variable that might explain some of this relationship. In doing so, it engages with the emerging debate around the extent to which climate change influences the evolution of violent conflict, theorizing with an illustrative observation of the events of the Arab Spring in Tunisia and Syria. I find that there are plausible explanations for climate–conflict links involving gendered expectations of men’s behaviour serving as an intervening variable between climate change and violent conflict and discuss the implications of this for moving away from securitized approaches, future study and peacebuilding work.

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Be a man: A theory of climate change, masculinities and violence

Francis

2024

Environment and Security

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“…59 The two most notorious members of the third group are al-Nusra and ISIL, both of which were originally part of al-Qaeda Iraq. Al-Nusra connected itself to Aḥrār al-Shām (until 2017, when al-Nusra renamed itself Hayʾat Taḥrīr al-Shām), and initially received support of the three aforementioned countries.…”

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The Syrian Civil War

Swinnen¹

2023

IFF Paper Online

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The civil war in Syria was the result of the regime’s violent response to the Arab Uprisings in 2012. In ten years of war, a lot has changed in the Syrian Arab Republic due to the dynamics of conflict. Although the Arab Spring started as a popular movement against the al-Asad regime, a decade of violence has completely altered the main actors and their preferences. Al-Asad has almost won the war, the Kurds have achieved some autonomy, the opposition forces are practically defeated, and the “internal conflict” has become completely internationalized. Through the scope of civil war theories and theories of international relations, it becomes clear that domestic, regional, and international actors with changing preferences are the main reason for this conflict’s complexity. This then reflects upon the complexity to have fruitful peace processes. To end, a debate is opened about achieving durable peace: coercion does not lead to sustainable peace, but decentralization or even federalism, with the right incentives and cooperation, might be an answer.

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The Propagandistic Use of Rebel Governance: The Case of the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq

Corradi

2023

Rebel Governance in the Middle East

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Syrian Requiem

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Be a man: A theory of climate change, masculinities and violence

Be a man: A theory of climate change, masculinities and violence

The Syrian Civil War

The Propagandistic Use of Rebel Governance: The Case of the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq

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