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Journal Article
Conflict in Syria: Finding hope amid the ruins
2017
Overview
Humanity has been undergoing a trial of fire and blood in Syria since 2011. What is happening? Over time, this conflict has exhibited all possible guises of war: civil war, proxy war, siege warfare, cyber-warfare and war against terror. All forms of past and present warfare seem to converge in this one conflict. A war against children, against hospitals, against cities, against first-aid workers, against memory, against justice – maybe these are more accurate titles for this war.Whatever names we give it, we can attempt to grasp the enormity of this tragedy with some figures and orders of magnitude. Although there is no widespread agreement on the number of dead, a New York Times article published in April 2018 puts the most widely accepted death count at 470,000.1 According to a UNICEF report, as of March 2018, around 30,000 people were wounded per month, 1.5 million were living with a permanent handicap, 6.5 million were suffering from food shortages, and 70% of the population was living in extreme poverty. 1.75 million children were not able to attend school, with one out of every three schools unfit for use owing to the war.2More than 11 million people, or around half of the pre-war population, have been uprooted from their homes. Some 5 million people have had to flee the country, and 13.5 million rely on humanitarian assistance to survive.3 Most of the country's infrastructure has been destroyed, the economy has collapsed, the country's health-care system – among the best in the region before the war – has imploded, and entire cities and neighbourhoods have been reduced to vast ruins.
