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Climate change and the Syrian civil war revisited

open access: yesPolitical Geography, 2017
For proponents of the view that anthropogenic climate change will become a ‘threat multiplier’ for instability in the decades ahead, the Syrian civil war has become a recurring reference point, providing apparently compelling evidence that such conflict ...
Jan Selby   +2 more
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Climate change and the Syrian civil war, Part II: The Jazira’s agrarian crisis

open access: yesGeoforum, 2019
This article is the second in a series on the alleged links between climate change, drought and the onset of Syria’s civil war. In a previous article it was argued that there is little merit to the Syria-climate conflict thesis, including no clear ...
Jan Selby
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Mass Dissimulation in the Syrian Civil War

The Journal of Politics, 2022
Why do civilians falsify their loyalties in civil wars? Government and rebel forces often seek popular collaboration for their wartime efforts, but civilian victimization encourages dissimulation as people seek safety when everyone’s loyalties are ...
Daniel Corstange
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Syrian Civil War: a systematic review of trauma casualty epidemiology

BMJ Military Health, 2020
Background The Syrian Civil War has caused over 400 000 traumatic deaths. Understanding the nature of war casualties is crucial to deliver healthcare improvement.
J. McIntyre
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International Law and Humanitarian Intervention in the Syrian Civil War: The Role of the United States

open access: yesSAGE Open, 2020
This article interrogates the legality of American interventions in the Syrian conflict. The Syrian civil war stands as one of the most controversial conflicts of the 21st century, owing to the mass destruction of lives and properties and the ...
Oluwaseyi Emmanuel Ogunnowo   +1 more
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Ceasefires as violent state-building: local truce and reconciliation agreements in the Syrian civil war

, 2020
Ceasefires have long been considered as a means to halt the violence of armed conflict for specific periods of time. This article broadens current understandings of ceasefires by arguing that they not only have the ability to affect violence but can be ...
Marika Sosnowski
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Reconciliation agreements as strangle contracts: ramifications for property and citizenship rights in the Syrian civil war

Peacebuilding, 2020
Far from being benevolent, so-called reconciliation agreements used in the Syrian civil war are tools of subjugation, more akin to coercive strangle contracts than the idea of reconciling past wrongs.
Marika Sosnowski
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Explaining intentional cultural destruction in the Syrian Civil War

Journal of Peace Research, 2022
Why, when, and where do participants in civil wars engage in intentional cultural destruction (ICD)? Focusing on the case of ISIS in Syria, our article examines how ideological and strategic considerations intersect to shape ICD campaigns.
L. F. Mantilla, Zoran Knežević
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Processes of Cohesion and Fragmentation among Arab Tribes During the Syrian Civil War

Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies
With the rise of ISIS in eastern Syria after 2014, there was a discussion among Western powers about the possibility of arming Arab tribes to lead the fight against ISIS on the ground.
Haian Dukhan
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