What would it take for peace in Syria?
This month the United States launched a massive military precision strike in Syria, a country that has experienced brutal violence by President Bashar al-Assad’s regime. The US was responding to a chemical weapons attack on civilians in Douma, Syria a week earlier that the US and others have blamed on the Assad government.
Syria has been in a political quagmire since a democratic uprising in 2011 as part of the so-called Arab Spring. Since then, the conflict in Syria escalated into a proxy war, with complicated, confusing international alliances and a devastating humanitarian toll.
Russell Berman, a professor of comparative literature at Stanford University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, has researched the conflict extensively. He recently wrote an article for the Hoover publication, The Caravan, about ousting Assad.
Berman recently sat down to talk about the complexities of the Syrian conflict and how to peace can be achieved.
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