Media report for the symposium “The Social Contract and the Constitution, Concepts, and Priorities”
As the discussion about the feasibility of writing a new constitution for Syria and what the Syrian Constitutional Committee meetings can produce continue, some believe that such a step will not be practical at the implementation level. Instead, they see a need to reformulate a new social contract for Syria on which the constitution will be based later on.
The Syrian Dialogue Center had issued a research article entitled “Does Syria need a social contract or a constitution? – The priority of the political consensus before “constitutionalizing” it. In the paper, SDC attempted to examine the priorities for the Syrian case at present and answered multiple questions about the differences between the social contract and the constitution in the context of the Syrian case and the appropriate environment for building a new social contract.
To discuss this matter more broadly; The Syrian Dialogue Center held a virtual seminar entitled “The Social Contract and the Constitution, Concepts, and Priorities” on Sunday, Jumada Al-Awal 19, 1442 AH, corresponding to January 3, 2021 AD, with the participation of the speakers: Director of the Shared Identity and Consensus Unit at the Syrian Dialogue Center, Dr. Ahmed Qurabi, Director of Research at Omran Center for Strategic Studies, Mr. Maan Talaa, and the political writer Dr. Yasser Al-Eiti, with the participation of several researchers and interested people.
The symposium tackled the above issues, their theoretical concepts, and practical applications by linking the ideas to the Revolution and Opposition Forces’ current situation and the fact that some of them have participated in the Constitutional Committee and working on writing a new constitution.
The researchers gave their opinions regarding the importance of a social contract, noting that the Syrian case needs more than ever of a social contract that ends the era of the Syrian regime that lacked a social contract in its real sense. The researchers also touched on the impact of the current maps of control in Syria on the social contract issue and the divisions they produce, leading to a defect in the Syrian national identity.
The virtual seminar included participants’ participation and interventions on several problematic issues related to the constitution and the social contract.
مؤسسة بحثية سورية تسعى إلى الإسهام في بناء الرؤى والمعارف بما يساعد السوريين على إنضاج حلول عملية لمواجهة التحديات الوطنية المشتركة وتحقيق التنمية المستدامة
