Is Partitioning Syria the Way to Peace?
As battle smoke continues to cloud the Syrian sky, it is abundantly clear that the country’s political landscape is going to be forever changed.
There are Sunni, Alawite, Shia, Druze, Yazdi, and Kurd groups in Syria, but the country’s pre-war society was not overwhelming divided along these lines. Five years of civil war has not just destroyed Syria’s infrastructure and buildings, it has also created a series of societal divisions that were not in place before the conflict began. As the next round of peace negotiations fall apart, it is clear that the sheer multitude of groups that are now represented in the conflict means that the political system will need an overhaul.
It is a foregone conclusion that most regions of Syria will no longer tolerate Bashar Assad’s political domination. The government’s formation of security forces that robbed, tortured, and raped young men and women, as well as the bombing of opposition towns and cities instead of al-Nusra and ISIS over the past five years has eroded any legitimacy Assad had.
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