Collective Memory: How Can We Write a History that Does not Reproduce Violence?

Read Time: 5 minutesWe are now in a phase of national reconciliation in our country. After decades of tyranny, violence, and division, it has become necessary for us to ask ourselves an important question: How will our collective memory be written? What narrative will we tell the future generations? And how can we reconstruct the concepts of “freedom” […]
From Marginalization to Effectiveness: Local Communities as Actors in Peacebuilding

Read Time: 6 minutesFollowing the collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s regime and his disgraceful escape to Moscow in December 2024, Syria finds itself at a critical crossroads, shaped not only by geopolitics but also by local communities that have long been marginalized. For more than a decade, Syrians experienced multifaceted wars: between the regime and the opposition, between centers […]