Global Issues- Syria (responses and effects)

Question 1

Give five examples of effects on individuals

Answer 1

• 2,300 refugees from region drowned 2015
• People radicalised by media and lots of Brits teens are recruited
• Sweden accepting 77% of Syrian refugees who can work immediately
• Some countries not accepting refugees: Hungry, Slovakia “Christian refugees only.”
• Many Syrian girls can’t get to school, and kids are being taught in different languages.

Question 2

Examples of regional effects, include three countries

Answer 2

Lebanon:

• Hosts 500,000+ refugees from the Palestine
• Armed group “Hezbollah” linked to Assad
• Syria Rebels have fired rockets at east Lebanon area

Syria

• 7 million displaced people
• Homs Syria’s 3rd largest city. Changed hands several times in East. Assad vs IS vs Rebels. Most of the old city has been destroyed

Turkey

• about 1.9 million refugees
• Kobane, town on Syria/ Turkey border heavy fighting
• wants a safe zone within Syria for refugees

Lebanon+ Turkey+ Jordan have 1 million refugees

Question 3

Effects of the war in Syria

Answer 3

-Businesses pull out- lack of investment and less trade
-break down of law and order- anyone with guns in charge, mostly men
-civil society break down- ruined infrastructure (roads, hospitals, schools)
-IS rules large part, blown up palmyra and historical artifacts
Assad only rules western Syria near cost

Question 4

Effects of war on international community

Answer 4

• IS attacks, terror spreading, Tunisia, Paris
• Home grown terrorism, 600+ from uk, jihadi brides
• continued calls for UN to act, ceasefires? Peace Talks?? Sept 2015- UN report on violence against women, UNHCR/WHO/UNICEF- running on less than half of promised money promised by in members
• migrant crisis, 200,000 to EU since Jan, criminal traffickers

Question 5

International Responses to the international community.

Answer 5

• “immigration” #1 voted issue, some resent infusions- 50,000 refugees to Greece in July
• EU pay £6000 per asylum seeker, EU plan 30,000 in 2 years
• UK government to take 20,000 in 5 years
• huge strain: especially in Greece, Bulgaria, etc Stresses on economy, political backlash

Question 6

Give three effects of the war on individuals.

Answer 6

1. Poverty- losing homes, can’t work, no food or clothes
2. Disease- overrun hospitals, poor sanitation spreading illness, left untreated
3. Isolation- families broken, 250,000 dead, I million untreated, while towns isolated
4. Violence- civilians abandoning morals, terrorists, fighting, massacres.
5. Jobs- lack of money, lack of jobs businesses
6. Children- schools destroyed, without education, parents dead