I don't see failure of the power sharing government. Shai and Sunni are equally influential in maintaining the peace.
The humanitarian aid will bring people together to end the violence of civil war. Syria needs to be rebuilt. Much work awaits Syrians. I would think the most important buildings to be returned are schools, mosques and minarets.
Syrians need to turn their tanks into bulldozers to begin to clear the rubble and reprocess it back into buildings.
Water availability is what caused so much of the unrest. It brought famers out of their land into the cities and the instability grew facilitated by international criminal terrorists. Water viaducts and dams and sources need to be examined and added to the reconstruction of Syria.
Syria needs a permanent fix to water supplies leading to irrigation of the land.
March 13, 2016
After five years of bloodshed, (click here) a quarter of a million deaths, and the flight of millions of refugees Syria has arrived at a critical juncture. A diplomatic framework is in place to end the carnage, a two-week-old partial cease-fire is holding, and peace talks are set to resume in coming days.
"The indicators from a distance are all good," said Bassam Barabandi, a Washington-based former Syrian diplomat serving as a political adviser to the Syrian opposition. "But it's a fragile moment, and the way is still long," he added.
Few think fighting will end altogether, and the efforts could collapse again at any point. Bitter divisions over the future of President Bashar Assad threaten to scuttle any serious negotiations for a political transition in the immediate future.
At the heart of the diplomacy is an internationally shared desire to end a war that has unleashed Islamic extremists across the globe, destabilised neighbouring countries and inundated Europe with refugees.
..."I never imagined the regime would last until 2016," said Amer Matar, a Syrian journalist who was among opposition activists in early protests. He was detained twice and tortured before fleeing to Turkey and then to Germany, where he has been living for nearly three years. His brother, Mohammad Noor, disappeared more than a year ago. "Syria will never be the same. I don't think it will be one Syria," he said.
Former US ambassador to Syria, Robert Ford, said he, like many other seasoned diplomats, underestimated the ability of the Syrian Government to survive so long, not imagining that Iran, Hezbollah and Russia would intervene so heavily on Assad's behalf.
The US and Russia last month engineered a partial ceasefire from February 27 that excludes Isis and the Nusra Front. Peace talks are to resume tomorrow in Geneva after a previous round collapsed because of a government offensive in Aleppo. At the heart of the talks will be such issues as a new constitution and elections, said Staffan de Mistura, the UN's Syria envoy.undated Europe with refugees.
The humanitarian aid will bring people together to end the violence of civil war. Syria needs to be rebuilt. Much work awaits Syrians. I would think the most important buildings to be returned are schools, mosques and minarets.
Syrians need to turn their tanks into bulldozers to begin to clear the rubble and reprocess it back into buildings.
Water availability is what caused so much of the unrest. It brought famers out of their land into the cities and the instability grew facilitated by international criminal terrorists. Water viaducts and dams and sources need to be examined and added to the reconstruction of Syria.
Syria needs a permanent fix to water supplies leading to irrigation of the land.
March 13, 2016
After five years of bloodshed, (click here) a quarter of a million deaths, and the flight of millions of refugees Syria has arrived at a critical juncture. A diplomatic framework is in place to end the carnage, a two-week-old partial cease-fire is holding, and peace talks are set to resume in coming days.
"The indicators from a distance are all good," said Bassam Barabandi, a Washington-based former Syrian diplomat serving as a political adviser to the Syrian opposition. "But it's a fragile moment, and the way is still long," he added.
Few think fighting will end altogether, and the efforts could collapse again at any point. Bitter divisions over the future of President Bashar Assad threaten to scuttle any serious negotiations for a political transition in the immediate future.
At the heart of the diplomacy is an internationally shared desire to end a war that has unleashed Islamic extremists across the globe, destabilised neighbouring countries and inundated Europe with refugees.
..."I never imagined the regime would last until 2016," said Amer Matar, a Syrian journalist who was among opposition activists in early protests. He was detained twice and tortured before fleeing to Turkey and then to Germany, where he has been living for nearly three years. His brother, Mohammad Noor, disappeared more than a year ago. "Syria will never be the same. I don't think it will be one Syria," he said.
Former US ambassador to Syria, Robert Ford, said he, like many other seasoned diplomats, underestimated the ability of the Syrian Government to survive so long, not imagining that Iran, Hezbollah and Russia would intervene so heavily on Assad's behalf.
The US and Russia last month engineered a partial ceasefire from February 27 that excludes Isis and the Nusra Front. Peace talks are to resume tomorrow in Geneva after a previous round collapsed because of a government offensive in Aleppo. At the heart of the talks will be such issues as a new constitution and elections, said Staffan de Mistura, the UN's Syria envoy.undated Europe with refugees.
