One Constitution for All Syrians

The war in Syria continued for 13 years. During this time, the European Center for Kurdish Studies accompanied the political opposition and members of the civil society, offering capacity-building opportunities such as workshops, study trips, and webinars. You can find the results of these activities here.

Our projects addressed the root cause of the conflict — power abuse. Centralized political decision-making and weak local institutions allowed the former regime to act illegitimately and against democratic principles. With our work, we wanted to contribute to a future in which this cannot happen again.

The project “Power Sharing for a United Syria” has ended. However, we will engage with Syria’s political future in form of other projects, for more information, click here.

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The positive impact of power sharing

We understand power-sharing through two dimensions. Horizontally, as the independence of executive, legislative and judicial powers. Vertically, as the decentralization of political power, competences and responsibilities from the centre to the periphery. Implemented as such, power-sharing can effectively foster political participation, trust in the state, social and political stability as well as justice. Eventually, this will prevent future power abuse.

Building knowledge and methods of power sharing

Our mission is to build knowledge and methods of power-sharing together with the Syrian opposition and civil society. We support them in drafting a new constitution for a new, democratic Syria. We regularly organize workshops, interview Syrian politicians and activists and provide an advisory board to members of the Syrian Constitutional Committee during the official peace negotiations.