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What is divided by politics could be reunited by economics - Renewed Turkish-Emirati relations

What is divided by politics could be reunited by economics - Renewed Turkish-Emirati relations

By: Jalal Bakkar

In light of the global economic disruption and political confusion, I think that everyone agrees on the importance of reducing escalation in the region and to agree that all parties need platforms for dialogue and negotiations to bring the region into a calm environment through which the region can be stabilized. This is initially to
correct previous mistakes, and open new pages whose titles are based on the public interest, growth, and prosperity at all social and economic levels. Also, such a reality could reform the political disputes that can be resolved through channels for understandings, and value-added of all parties.

Latest Research & Studies

Obstacles to integration of Syrian women survivors of detention into local society - A field study in the regions of northern Syria

Obstacles to integration of Syrian women survivors of detention into local society - A field study in the regions of northern Syria

This study aims at identifying the most important obstacles that could play an obstructing or motivating role in the process of re-integrating female ex-detainees/survivors from the prisons of the Syrian regime into their local communities and their surrounding environments.
To enrich the study, (68) female ex-detainees survived the Syrian regime detention were interviewed and a specially designed field-based survey is adopted as well. The above-mentioned steps were taken for the purpose of detecting and revealing the social, economic and psychological/personal obstacles facing the survived female detainees in social integration.
As a result, several findings are included within the study, which are related to the social, economic and psychological factors that constitute an obstacle that would face the ex-prisoners to return to their normal lives socially, at least as they used to be before the arrest.
However, a range of social barriers intertwine from the value system, customs, norms and behaviours prevailing in local communities continue to prevent such groups of surviving prisoners from returning to their social lives; especially if we take into account the state of instability in Syria, in most cities and regions, and this matter's role in curbing the motives for integration in light of the military/field, political and economic situation that at least can be characterised as thorny and confusing.
Therefore, it is not possible to talk about the relationship of the local community with the survivors without considering the whole previous mentioned situation; so that the survivor woman remained captive to those preconceived notions by the surrounding society.