MSDThe Syrian Democratic Council organized a dialogue seminar on the concepts of inclusive national identity and decentralization in the town of Al-Hol, east of al-Hasakah, northeastern Syria, in the presence of events, political and social figures and tribal dignitaries.
During the first theme, the seminar shed light on the concept of an inclusive national identity that seeks to reunite Syrians and be an umbrella that brings together the ethnic, cultural, religious, sectarian, national and class diversity in Syria on the basis of the true citizenship.
During the seminar, Sabri Salmo, a member of the Democratic Union party, spoke about the Syrian identity, its forms, its stages and the importance of building an inclusive identity that includes diversity and pluralism and rejects discrimination and exclusion in all its forms.
Selmo pointed out that the identity crisis is a central issue for any dialogue on a radical and comprehensive resolution in Syria, and without an inclusive national identity, no path seeking to resolve the Syrian crisis can succeed during the state of fragmentation and dispersion that Syria suffers from.
While the second theme discussed the concept of decentralization and the form of future governance in Syria, where a member of the Relations Bureau of the Syrian Democratic Council, Dr. Hussein Azzam, spoke about decentralization and its history in Syria.
”The structural crisis that the country is suffering from is caused by the authoritarian centralization ruling in Syria, which has brought the country to a deplorable state in economic, political, administrative, social and cultural terms.” he said.
Azzam added that Syria needs decentralization and the bad situation where country has reached so far because of the crisis, increased the need to apply it.
He put forward the forms of decentralization and its models applied in the region and the world, and also he talked about its basic necessities and principles, and he considered it (decentralization) a necessity and a guarantee for the unity of the Syrian territories.
The attendees, including politicians and tribes, shared their views on the importance of attending national projects that take into account the Syrian situation and are in line with the aspirations of the Syrian people and achieve the effective participation in which Syrians especially those from the eastern regions, have been deprived of it over the past decades.
