International Journal of Political Science and Development
 

International Journal of Political Science and Development

Vol. 5(4), pp. 123–132, June, 2017. 

DOI: 10.14662/IJPSD2017.020

ISSN: 2360-784X

Research Paper

A Unabated Civil war in Syria

Teferi Mengistu Mekonen

Lecturer, Department of Pedagogy and Morality, College of Social Science, Dire Dawa University, Ethiopia

Accepted 7 June 2017

This study intends to briefly review the causal linkages between the persistent Civil war in Syria and the possible factors for the high level of human insecurity and instability in the country that continued since 2011. Syria’s descent into the civil war started in the spring of 2011, when large-scale protests against the state broke out. Since then the civil war in Syria continues unabated between the Syrian government and several rebel groups, with humanitarian needs and the vulnerability of people continuing to increase. The major factors for the unabated civil war in Syria have been: the rise of sectarianism, weakness of the Syrian state, external involvement in the Syrian civil war that includes international and regional players in the region.

Keywords: Syria, Civil war, Sectarianism, External intervention

 

Cite This Article As: Teferi MM (2017). A Unabated Civil war in Syria. Int. J. Polit. Sci. Develop. 5(4) 123-132

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