The syrian conflict analysis

In March 2011 peaceful protests over the arrest and torture of young syrians, themselves having drawn slogans refering to the revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia on walls in Syria’s Daraa, led to the killing of six civilians by syrian police. The protests quickly spread, while the government response grew increasingly cruel. More than four years later, the death toll from Syria’s civil war has reached over 200,000. Syria‘s conflict involved many regional and global actors. The metodology has focused on analysis of conflict stuctures, actors and dynamics. The focus of this bachelor thesis are the main factors, which caused Syrian conflict. These factors are marked out by using reports of policy and research organizations, academic literature, websites, media reports etc. This paper examines the role of security, political, social and economical structures for the rise of the conflict. Collier‘s „greed and grievence“ theory, which refers two baseline arguments on the causes of civil war, says that the greed – economic factors – are the main causes of civil war. Using Collier‘s theory and Conflict Analysis model was shown that the economy was crucial factor for Syria‘s conflict. Second task was to find out why Syria is so resistant for peace agreements – why conflict is so brutal and lasts for more than four years. The analysis of the main actors and their interests showed two main factors. Firstly, the big number of involved actors is making conflit more complicated. Secondly, the rebels are fighting not for changes in policies, but for the change of existing regime. They do not identify plans for the future of Syria‘s country. In the context, where exists such jihadist militant groups as ISIS this causes a lot of problems