1. Session IV: The Unsustainability of Camps and Prisons: How Things Need to Change
- Author:
- Sahar Attrache, Fabrizio Carboni, Sonia Khush, Letta Tayler, and Elizabeth Hagedorn
- Publication Date:
- 07-2022
- Content Type:
- Video
- Institution:
- Middle East Institute (MEI)
- Abstract:
- Over three years ago, Islamic State’s territorial project in Syria and Iraq was dealt its final defeat in al-Baghouz. While the terrorist group’s insurgency in the region remains largely contained, one single and largely unaddressed issue is worsening by the day, threatening to guarantee an eventual resurgence. As of mid-2022, more than 60,000 men, women and children—most with some level of past association with ISIS—remain in makeshift detention and squalid camps in Syria. Thousands are Western citizens. This is an increasingly unsustainable security and humanitarian crisis, and progress on resolving it has moved painfully slowly, if at all.
- Topic:
- Security, Prisons/Penal Systems, Islamic State, Civilians, Humanitarian Crisis, and Detention
- Political Geography:
- Middle East and North Africa