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The Socioeconomic Impact of the Syrian Crisis and Alternative Existing Scenarios
Tue, October 29th, 2013
Beirut
The ongoing crisis in Syria has devastated the country on every level. The Carnegie Middle East Center and the Syrian Center for Policy Research (SCPR) hosted a discussion of Syria’s current socioeconomic conditions and evaluated potential post-conflict reconstruction scenarios. Participants examined how the various reconstruction options impact different social and political groups within Syria and discussed which scenario would best serve Syria in the long term.
Discussants included Rabie Nasser and Zaki Mehchy, co-founders and researchers at SCPR. Carnegie’s Yezid Sayigh moderated.
Rabie Nasser
Rabie Nasser is a co-founder and researcher at the Syrian Center for Policy Research in Damascus. He works and publishes on economic analysis and reform in Syria, macroeconomic policies in developing countries, sources of economic growth, and alternative approaches to economic reform.
Zaki Mehchy
Zaki Mehchy is a co-founder and researcher at the Syrian Center for Policy Research in Damascus. He works on socioeconomic monitoring and analysis, labor market, trade, empowerment, multi-dimensional poverty, and development policies.
Yezid Sayigh
Yezid Sayigh is a senior associate at the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut, where his work focuses on the Syrian crisis, the political role of Arab armies, security sector transformation in Arab transitions, the reinvention of authoritarianism, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and peace process.
Carnegie does not take institutional positions on public policy issues; the views represented herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of Carnegie, its staff, or its trustees.
Event Speakers
Rabie Nasser
Zaki Mehchy
Yezid Sayigh
Senior Fellow, Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center
Yezid Sayigh is a senior fellow at the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut, where he leads the program on Civil-Military Relations in Arab States (CMRAS). His work focuses on the comparative political and economic roles of Arab armed forces, the impact of war on states and societies, the politics of postconflict reconstruction and security sector transformation in Arab transitions, and authoritarian resurgence.