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The Syrian conflict
Content • How did the conflict begin?• How did it become a war?• What role has UN had when it comes to war
crimes?• What role has UN had when it comes to
humanitarian crisis?• The rise of IS• Peace effort and possible solutions
Thesis
With nether side able to inflict a decisive defeat on the other, there is is
no solution to the Syrian conflict.
How did the conflict begin?
• Uprising turns violent • Pre-democracy protests• President Bashar al-Assad
How did it become a conflict?
• Descent into civil war• Damascus and Aleppo• 220 000 deaths, march 2015• IS
• Both sides • ”indiscriminate employment of weapons in
populated areas” • 6 000 civilians
What role has UN had when it comes to humanitarian crisis?
• 4 million fled • 12,2 million in the need of help• 8,4 billion dollars• 202 billion dollars
The rise of IS
• Outnumbered • Rebel fighting • Al-Qaeda
Peace effort and possible solutions • International community • Geneva Comunique • Ban Ki-moon • Rejected
Given all that why was America acting directly only only against the Islamic State (IS) and other jihadists about whom it has particular concerns?
Are they worse than Bashar Assad’s use of chemicals, barrel bombs and torture to suppress the Syrian opposition, both armed and civilian?
Will anything we have done up until now make the crimes of either any more likely to stop?
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