Syria: Neither Dictatorship nor Sectarian Divide

For over six years now, the Syrian population has been suffering one of the largest conflicts and humanitarian crisis of the last 75 years. This appalling situation is the result of the armed repression unleashed by the regime of Bachar Al Asad during the spring of 2011 to crush the massive peaceful mobilizations demandeing democracy and civil rights, and the end of the police state and institutionalized corruption. 

Since then, Syria has succumbed to the spiral of foreign interventionism and sectarian violence which underpins the regime as the “lesser evil” against Jihadism. This Conference aims to give voice to those in Syria who do not accept neither dictatorship nor confessionalism, those who believe that the principles of citizenship and self-determination, the respect of human rights –especially in the case of women and children–, political pluralism, and the social management of national resources, must be the foundations for the country's democratic reconstruction. 

Organizing committee : Santiago Alba, Luz Gómez García, Iñaki Gutiérrez de Terán, Loles Oliván Hijós, Naomí Ramírez, Itziar Ruiz Jiménez, Carlos Varea; by CIDOB: Anna Estrada, Eduard Soler; by  Ayuntamiento de Barcelona: Dirección de Justicia Global y Cooperación Internacional): David Llistar, Jordi Cortés, Gloria Meler, David Gervilla.