Issue 30

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Issue 30 – December 2025

Justice, Rights & Civil Society

Demobilising NGOs

How to transition a war-shaped humanitarian sector to a peace-time role

Local Dynamics

What’s left of the SNA

Syrian National Army factions are dispersed but remain too useful to demobilise

Justice, Rights & Civil Society

Whose civil society?

Grassroots civil society groups are re-emerging, but the struggle over who controls them has only begun

Economy, Aid & Reconstruction

Young, motivated, struggling

Syria’s returning workforce faces a broken labour market

Politics & Power

Islamists versus Islamists

The Muslim Brotherhood’s return to Syria threatens confrontation with Sharaa

Interviews

Justice without a map

A conversation with Stephen Rapp

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