The researcher and economic analyst Celeng Omar said that any Syrian constitution that ignores the reality of national, religious and cultural diversity in Syria, will reproduce the crisis and conflict, whether in a year or a decade.
Omar’s speech came during her participation via the “Zoom” program in the fourth dialogue session held by Ezdina within the project “A Constitution That Protects Us”, in the city of Qamishlo/Qamishli, in the presence of representatives of minorities, religious and national components in North and East Syria.
Omar stressed the need to protect this diversity in Syria through a secular democratic constitution that separates religion from power and protects the rights of individuals and groups away from the logic of the majority and the minority so that tyranny is not reproduced.
Omar added that to protect these principles of "democracy, secularism, and the rights of groups", Syria must be a decentralized state that grants the parties or regions the right to administer themselves, or self-rule that guarantees them real participation in decision-making and guarantees the possibility of developing regions that achieve fair distribution of wealth and protect regional cultures far away of the center.
It is noteworthy that Ezdina Organization launched a new project, in northeastern Syria, under the title "A Constitution That Protects Us", started on February 23, 2021, for a period of three months.
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