The main goal of Alternative Policies project is to provide a contribution to develop an alternative developmental paradigm that fulfills the Syrian society aspirations and expectations and overcomes the main challenges facing Syria. The project aims to develop developmental paths that can overcome the impacts of the current crisis and ...

Video of the launch of Syrian Center for Policy Research report (in Arabic) Social Degradation in Syria The Conflict Impact on Social Capital  Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at American University of Beirut   Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at AUB hosted the launch ...

This report uses the Health Resources and services Availability Mapping System (HeRAMS) database to develop two composite indices – one for health centers and one for hospitals – in order to analyse and assess the health facilities’ performance across time and to evaluate the disparities among regions in the Syria ...

This brief defines the powers responsible of “squandering humanity” in the Syrian crisis, these powers are internal (tyranny, fanaticism, and fundamentalism), and external including organizations, networks, countries, and groups. Moreover, the brief identifies these powers’ role in suppressing the inspiration of social powers seeking civil liberties, justice, dignity, welfare, and ...

Social Degradation in Syria The Conflict Impact on Social Capital By Syrian Center for Policy Research The Social Degradation report explores the impact of the armed conflict in Syria on social relations. It uses the concept of social capital as an approach to analyzing trust, cooperation, and shared values. The ...

Video of the launch of Syrian Center for Policy Research report Forced Dispersion Syrian Human Status: The Demographic Report 2016 In the Social Justice and Conflict Resolution Institute at Lebanese American University   The Social Justice and Conflict Resolution Institute at Lebanese American University hosted the launch of SCPR report The ...

The Forced Dispersion Report diagnoses population status in Syria before and during the crisis by adopting participatory rights-based approach. The report re-estimates key pre crisis demographic indicators, which allows for different understanding of the population challenges. During the crisis, and based mainly on the Population Status Survey 2014, which was ...

The project has two main phases, the first one aims to analyze the development roots of the current crisis in Syria from economic, social, and institutional perspectives. This phase is conducted based on comprehensive and thorough analysis of the public policy during the pre-crisis period. The second phase intends to study the ...

This project aims to firstly diagnose pre-crisis population status and its main challenges, using a comprehensive developmental framework including economic, social and institutional aspects. Secondly, the project develops different tools to assess the current Syrian crisis impacts and dynamics on human being status; this includes the study of demographic, economic, ...

The economy of violence flourished in Syria during 2014 as battles intensified, with reallocation of resources and capital to the machinery of war. This was accompanied with the expansion of black markets, the erosion of sovereignty and rule of law, increasing dependence upon external support, deepening economic exposure and loss ...