von FARAZ FIROUZI MANDOMI Ceasefires, integration deals, and decrees can stabilise territory, but they cannot settle Syria’s constitutional question of equal citizenship. For Syria’s Kurds, they also revive a familiar risk: recognition that remains legally reversible. Executive gestures may restore citizenship, but they do not bind security institutions, guarantee equal…
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Von LISA-MARIE KOMP Why military intervention in Syria is not justified As Tim René Salomon has set out very clearly, a military intervention in Syria cannot be considered legal, as there is no Security Council resolution, no situation of self-defence, nor do the contested doctrines of humanitarian intervention or the…
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von MARKUS MAYR The planned Geneva conference will attempt to end the Syrian conflict with a political agreement. Such an agreement has to define a transitional order that accommodates the different groups’ interests. Meanwhile, serious violations of international humanitarian and human rights law by government forces and the armed opposition…
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