2. Content
• How did the conflict begin?
• How did it become a war?
• What role has UN had when it comes to war crimes?
• What role has UN had when it comes to
humanitarian crisis?
• The rise of IS
• Peace effort and possible solutions
3. Thesis
With nether side able to inflict a decisive
defeat on the other, there is is no
solution to the Syrian conflict.
4. How did the conflict
begin?
• Uprising turns violent
• Pre-democracy protests
• President Bashar al-Assad
5. How did it become a
conflict?
• Descent into civil war
• Damascus and Aleppo
• 220 000 deaths, march 2015
• IS
6. What role has UN had when it comes to war
crimes?
• Both sides
• ”indiscriminate employment of weapons in
populated areas”
• 6 000 civilians
7. What role has UN had when it comes to
humanitarian crisis?
• 4 million fled
• 12,2 million in the need of help
• 8,4 billion dollars
• 202 billion dollars
8. The rise of IS
• Outnumbered
• Rebel fighting
• Al-Qaeda
9. Peace effort and possible
solutions
• International community
• Geneva Comunique
• Ban Ki-moon
• Rejected
Given all that why was America acting directly
only only against the Islamic State (IS) and other
jihadists about whom it has particular concerns?
Are they worse than Bashar Assad’s use
of chemicals, barrel bombs and torture to
suppress the Syrian opposition, both
armed and civilian?
Will anything we have
done up until now make
the crimes of either any
more likely to stop?
