The Syrian Civil War Was Influenced By The Arab Spring

The Syrian Civil War has had a profound effect of all Syrians as well as neighbouring countries and the international community. With more than 11 million homeless Syrians comes consequences beyond what most of the world population has ever experienced or anticipated. Of the displaced, almost 5 million are refugees outside Syria and around 6 million have been displaced inside Syria, with half of all displaced Syrians being children. The main causes of displacement amongst the population is the violence committed by all sides of the war, and which often targets civilians or centres of high civilian activity (such as markets, hospitals, schools, workplaces or high density residential areas). One main group heavily affected by the conflict

Initially, one should look at the country of origin in which a civil war plays out, in this instance, Syria. Syria was thrown into a state of turmoil after the government reportedly arrested and tortured teenagers who had painted revolutionary slogans on their school’s walls. This caused massive rallies to take place, in which government soldiers fired upon protestors, killing several. As a result, the protestors took up arms of their own and proceeded to fight back against the governmental forces in an attempt to end President Assad’s regime. This then drew up the battle lines; on one side was President Assad and his

The Syrian crisis began on March 2011 when teenagers were arrested and tortured for painting revolutionary slogans on a school wall. Whenever the opposition took up arms, the Syrian Civil War began. The four groups currently fighting in the civil war are the Kurdish forces, the Islamic State group, various rebel groups,

The Syrian Civil War continues to be a major issue in the world today. Though it began as an issue over the resignation of President Bashar Al Assad against the government and Syrians, the war has greatly escalated. It currently involves over 50 different groups, all supporting either the government or the Syrian people, but possessing a slightly different goal. All of this violence poses a threat to individual nations all through the world, focusing on the immigration of refugees into such nations and the impact of such a movement upon that nation. Furthermore, all of this violence has violated the human rights of millions of people, with rape , torture, and harsh execution style killings occurring on a daily basis. Millions of people caught

There were many factors within Syria that would work against the change into nonviolent resistance. In contrast to Tunisia where the departure of the president who was seen as a liability did not threaten the establish on a larger scale, in Syria, the cohesion and societal linkages meant that many more interests would be threatened if the Assad were to step down. The heterogeneity of the Syrian society has long undermined collective action among the opposition, and the intense links between Assad and the regime core prevented the elites from abandoning the president as many did in Tunisia. Syria had additionally enjoyed some degree of Nationalist legitimacy from decades of opposition to Israel and western imperialism, a blatant contract to the leader of Tunisia who was an ally of the West. The dynamics of Syria’s slide into violence illustrate a number of features of the politics of resistance, and insight into the causes and consequences of resistance. Strategies of violence often follow the perception that actors have no choice but to engage in violence. Violence is a reaction shaped by the immediacy of state

President Bashar al-Assad’s army is currently in an ongoing battle against the ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria); a Syrian civil war. This unrest began in the early spring of 2011. The people of Syria were protesting against their leader and the leader’s forces responded with violent “enforcement of regulations”. After

The initial protests that sparked the Syrian Civil War occurred in the context of the Arab Spring, a series of mass protests and uprisings that overtook the region beginning with the Tunisian uprising sparked by the self-immolation of a political dissident. The Tunisian Uprising ultimately led to the actual overthrow of the Tunisian government, but affairs were not to conclude so decisively in Syria. The Arab Spring protests writ large were inspired by Middle Easterners’ dissatisfaction with governments they viewed as overly repressive, corrupt, and non-representative, and the Assad regime, grown bloated and corrupt through forty-plus years of uninterrupted rule, certainly fit the bill. The Syrian government reacted in a predictably authoritarian fashion to protests, restricting movement and imprisoning those found guilty of supposedly seditious activities through the spring and summer of 2011, including simple anti-government graffiti (Fahim and Saad). Eventually, the military began to resort to open tactical opposition against mostly unarmed protestors, moving to militarily pacify the city of Daraa where the protests had begun in the late spring (BBC). Military dominance, though taken for granted in a nation that had been ruled

On March 15 2011 the Syrian Civil War started. The battle is between the government, the extremist group called ISIS, and those who wanted their leader out of the office. This war has not only taken a toll on the once beautiful land of Syria but also on the people. These people were happily living their lives any enjoying life before this event. Once the war started there were mass bombings all over the country and many innocent people were killed. The war started because the leader was not religiously extreme. Many people were angry and wanted him out of the office because he let some kids doing graffiti die in detention. A rebellion started. It evolved into a full-out civil war. Many people had to leave and now more than half the country

In March of 2011, BBC News reported that Syrian authorities arrested and tortured teenagers for vandalising a school wall with revolutionary propaganda, which soon led to pro-democracy protests. These protests were interrupted by security forces that opened fire on the protesters and killed several. Soon the political unrest triggered demands for President Assad’s resignation. The government used force to stop the protests, but this only ensured more anger from the demonstrators. This was the beginning of the brutal war that is still occurring today. The violence escalated tremendously and has caused over 250,000 deaths as of August 2015 (Asare, Gritten, Offer, & Rodgers, 2015). Asare et al. (2015) reports that his number includes the deaths of more than 6000 civilians killed by barrel bombs alone. The battle is no longer

In the time that it will take to finish reading this essay, roughly 24 Syrians will have fled in order to escape the civil war. It has been six years since the beginning of the Syrian civil war and time has not benefited the issue in any way.This conflict began when 15 boys were captured and tortured due to them showing support for the Arab Spring ( Uwire). At first it was just protest that emerged in towns and cities all around Syria. The Syrian  government began to restrict people's ability to protest and began to act violent towards these protesters. This created large anti government sentiment among many citizens which eventually erupted into a war. Although the war has engulfed

What began as anti-government protests and demonstrations soon escalated into a full-scale civil war. Protests broke out following the arrest and torture of a group of teenagers for painting anti-govern graffiti on the wall of a school building. The nation was so outraged they took to the streets in protest, demanding the resignation of the president for allowing such an injustice to happen. The government’s violent responses to the citizens’ protests escalated into a full-scale civil war, leaving many Syrian citizens with no other option but to flee their homes (Adhikari,

“Syria has become the great tragedy of this century - a disgraceful humanitarian calamity with suffering and displacement unparalleled in recent history,” said António Guterres, the UN’s High Commissioner for Refugees. Uprisings and unrest have been occurring in Syria and the surrounding areas for decades, but I will be focusing on the past four years as tensions began to get worse every day. Politics and the government always seem to be the root of the problem when it comes to these violent and deadly protests and full on war. There are always two sides who don’t agree on anything, and probably will never find common ground. The two groups engaging in this civil war include supporters of President Bashar as-Assad, the president of Syria, and a group of rebels who do not want this man to be in power any longer. It all began about four in a half years ago in March 2011. There have always been the group of people in every place, who disagree with the government and their decisions. Most of the time, these protestors and rebels just want to get a little bit of a rise out of the government and move on. However, after a group of teenagers painted revolutionary slogans on the walls of a school, security began to open fire on them and ended up killing a majority of them. After this incident, more and more people began to come together and join their peers in the fight against the corrupt government. This revolutionary time frame was referred to as the “Arab Spring” and was not

The initial welling for revolution in Syria was caused by a chain of regime changes across the Middle East in 2011 known as the Arab Spring. Beginning in Tunisia, civil protests arose against the long established dictatorship in the country. The protests did not result in war but rather the resignation of the leader. It freed citizens from a government that they believed had ignored their rights and established a new administration which would hopefully correct the mistreatment the citizens had endured. Tunisia’s successful revolution had served as inspiration for the nearby country of Egypt to follow suite. The protests in Egypt lasted for 18 days, during which internet was mostly blocked by the state to quell the rumors of violence and rebellion. The defense against protesters failed and the president was stripped of all power and jailed. News of two successful rebellions against oppressive regimes soon spread across the Arab world. Libya was the next to try its hand at an uprising. The established power would not be so easily removed however and the country descended

The crisis in Syria is seemingly endless. There are two main forces in Syria. Syrian rebels against President Bashar al Assad’s regime abruptly emerged due to the discontent of the dictatorship and demand for democracy, and the government forces has been tried to suppress the furious rebel in order to maintain Assad’s dictatorial regime. Because of the collision between two antagonists that seem to never agree each other, people in Syrian are suffering from the devastating and nonselective bombing. Approximately, 250,000 people have died from the conflict, and over 4.5 million Syrians have migrated to different neighboring countries in Middle East and Europe (BBC News 2016). The civil war has been gone for years and years; however, the devastating war and inhumane government attack on people do not seem to be terminated. Because of the enlarging scale of the civil war, the global society considered the severity as one of the international affairs, and the United Nations eventually came up with a plan for resolution.

The Syrian conflict began 2011 during the Arab Spring uprisings. The movement started as an uprising for democracy at a time when residents in a small town called Dara’a, protest against the government of the torture of young boys. This demonstration spread across the country when the Syrian government responded very violently by sending military tanks and shooting at protesters (Sharara, & Kani, 2014). This action has spiral over to competing for rebel groups, terrorist group and government troops fighting each other displacing and killing millions of Syrians.