We are pleased to announce our new publication “From Federalism to Hyper-centralisation: The History of Decentralisation in the Syrian Constitutions” by Dr Dr Zedoun Al Zoubi, Dr Rim Turkmani and  Mazen Gharibah. The paper is now available in Arabic. The...

   By: Dr Rim Turkmani Abstract The article sets out why it is important to conceptualise local agreements as a process of talks that have a value in their own right rather than as a discrete event reached on a particular date. Throughout this process the...

   By: Dr Rim Turkmani  Based on two case studies from Syria, the article argues that unilateral external intervention in protracted conflicts is not only about military and financial support to one or other warring party. Unilateral external actors often...

   Understanding local agreements in intractable conflicts By Mary Kaldor, Marika Theros and Rim Turkmani  We are pleased to announce the publication of a Peacebuilding  Special Issue on local agreements in intractable conflicts. The special issue was edited...

   Military and Politics in Syria (1946-1963): Alliances, Conflicts and Purges (Published on Vol 12, No.1 (2020) "Narratives of Transformation" of Syria Studies, the official journal of the Centre for Syrian Studies (CSS) at the University of St. Andrews) ...

   By Sami Hadaya freelance researcher and translator   Abstract Ten years after the onset of the uprisings that swept many of the Arab countries very little change has been achieved. The reasons for that cannot be explained away with one or even...

   Kurdish Political and Civil Movements in Syria and the Question of Representation  By Dr Mohamad Hasan Researcher with the Conflict and Civil Society Research Unit in the Department of International Development at the London School of Economics and...

   In a series of new publications Dr Ibrahim Draji examines closely the crucial yet often neglected Supreme Constitutional Court,  the course it has charted over the past century, its current statues and shortcomings and presents answers enlightened by...

   Excerpt from: How The West Stole Democracy from the Arabs:  The Syrian Arab Congress of 1920 and the Destruction of its Historic Liberal-Islamic Alliance (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2020)By Elizabeth F. Thompson Farsi Chair of Islamic Peace, School...

The question of religion continues to be a key contentious issue in any constitutional process and particularly the ongoing Syrian one.