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A Current Issue/Problem in World Politics: Syrian Conflict
Analysis of the Conflict
Over 250,000 Syrians have died in four-and-a-half years of a clash consisting of weapons, which started with anti-government rebels before expanding into a full force civil war (Carpenter 1). Over 11 million others have been displaced from their localities as armies faithful to President Bashar al-Assad and the populations that resist his government fight each other, together with jihadist force from the Islamic State. Pro-democracy demonstrations exploded in March 2011 in Deraa after the detention of and pain suffered by some youths who decorated radical mottos on a school wall (Carpenter 2). Several other people went to the street after police officers shot the demonstrators, murdering many individuals. The commotion stimulated countrywide demonstrations forcing the resignation of President Assad’s. The application of force by the government to press the opposition just consolidated the demonstrators’ resolve. Thousands of people, by July 2011, were demonstrating on the streets all over the nation. The advocates of the opposition ultimately started using arms to shield themselves and with time expel police officers from their places of residence. Ferocity intensified and the nation fell into civil war as protest gangs were created to fight government armies for authority over towns, cities, and rural areas. By 2012, the battle reached Damascus and Aleppo.

Furthermore, the United Nations reported that “about 90,000 individuals lost their lives in the war by June 2013” (Carpenter 3). Later, the number had increased to 250,000 according to the UN and activists’ reports, as of August 2015. Today, the battle is more than merely a fight between the supporter and opponents to President Assad. The war has attained religious implications, plunging the nation’s Sunni majority against the President’s Shia Alawite sect, and attracted global and regional powers. The emergence of the jihadist brigade Islamic State has included an additional size (Bakke and Kuypers 12).
A United Nations Commission of Investigation has proof that all actors to the battle have committed war offenses, such as torture, killings, rape, and imposed vanishings. The inquiry has also accused the parties of applying civilian agony, including preventing access to food, health care services, and water via blockades, as a tactic of fighting (Bakke and Kuypers 13). While the United Nations Security Council has called upon all actors to terminate the haphazard application of arms in populated regions, the killings of the civilians still continue in thousands. Several civilians have been murdered by container bombs, disposed by government planes on assemblies in opponent-held regions. Such attacks have been described by the United Nations to have a contribution to massacres. Moreover, the Islamic State has also been accused by the United Nations of pursuing a movement of terror. The UN reported that “the Islamic State has imposed extreme penalties on individuals or groups that disobey or reject to acknowledge its laws and principles, including many public assassinations and exclusions” (Bakke and Kuypers 14). Its warriors have also conducted mob murdering of opponent armed gangs, decapitated captives like many Westerners, and cohorts of the security officials and religious minorities.
In August 2013, for instance, many individuals were murdered following rockets full of the nerve agent sarin, which was fired at many environs of Damascus (Carpenter 7). The Western authorities mentioned that this act could have just been accomplished by Syria’s government, yet the government accused the resistance armies. Encountering the plans of US army involvement, President Assad accepted to eliminate and destroy Syria’s chemical arms arsenal fully. While the process of the removal was finished in 2014, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons has remained to record the application of poisonous chemicals in the battle. Examiners determined that chlorine was applied recurrently and comprehensively in terrific attacks on opponent-held regions between April and July 2014. As a matter of fact, the Islamic State has been blamed of applying domestic chemical arms, such as sulfur mustard. The OPCW reported that “the blister agent was applied in a raid on Marea, which led to the death of a baby in August 2015” (Bakke and Kuypers 14).
Solutions to the Conflict and the Consequences of the Solutions
Neither side involved in the war can impose a significant conquest on the opponent. Thus, the international community, through the doctrine and theory of liberalism, had, in the past, declared that only a political alternative could terminate the battle in Syria (Holsti 39). The United Nations Security Council has requested the execution of the 2012 Geneva Communiqué that foresees a temporary controlling agency with complete executive influences created on the basis of joint agreement. The Geneva II, the dialogues in early 2014, disintegrated just two cycles, with Lakhdar Brahimi, the then UN special representative, accusing the Syrian Government’s’ refusal to talk about the rival’s request (Carpenter 9). Further, the establishment of a collection of local ceasefires was proposed by Staffan de Mistura, Brahimi’s replacement. In December 2015, his prospect for a free are in Aleppo was precluded, but this plan resulted in the successful termination of a three-year blockade of the Homs area of al-Wair (Bakke and Kuypers 19). Also, in regards to the pursuit of realism theory, the United States and Russia spearheaded the attempts to find envoys of the government and the rivals to attend juxtaposition dialogues in Geneva to talk about a Security Council-sanctioned plan for peace and unity, including a ceasefire and a provisional span concluding with votes (Holsti 40). The idealists’ perspectives also support these solutions because they are aimed at doing good and ethical practices to each other by saving the civilians and cities from the killings and destructions, respectively (Holsti 49).
What can be done differently to improve the Conflict
It can be argued that negotiation to terminate the violence and the containment of Islamic State is a good option to improve the situation. A connected attempt to remove the Islamic State from the external environment and reestablish order and peace to Syria may act as a productive start of the end to the war. All sources of financing should be identified. This, indeed, needs foreign authorities to links their influence for a resolution.
Alternative International Actor
Apart from the United Nations as an example of the international actors, the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) also takes part in the Syrian conflict with the view of terminating it. The Interpol serves many roles in the conflict, including training o the police, keeping the police and criminal database, and safeguarding international police communication services.
Works Cited
Bakke, Peter C., and Jim A. Kuypers. “The Syrian Civil War, International Outreach, and a Clash of Worldviews.” KB Journal 11.2 (2016).Carpenter, Ted Galen. “Tangled Web: The Syrian Civil War and its Implications.” Mediterranean Quarterly 24.1 (2013): 1-11.
Holsti, Kalevi. “The Problem of Change in International Relations Theory.” Kalevi Holsti: A Pioneer in International Relations Theory, Foreign Policy Analysis, History of International Order, and Security Studies. Springer International Publishing, 2016. 37-55.