Outputs of the fourteenth dialogue session in Hasaka

Ezdina Organization held its fourteenth dialogue session at Khabour hall in a city of Hasaka, within the project “A Constitution That Protects Us” on 06.06.2021, for civil society leaders, politicians and clan leaders. The session started at 11:30 and ended at 15:00.

Facilitator:
The session was moderated by Dr. Abeer Hassaf.


Participants:
11 women and men, representatives of clan, civil society, politicians, activists, and political activists in North and East Syria participated in the session, according to the following proportions:

2 Female - 9 Male

Bahram Hasso - Political activist
Basman Al-Assaf - Member of the One Syria Gathering
Mousa Issa - Activist in the Civil Peace Council
Sa'ad Farman - Sctivist in the Civil Peace Council
Abdullah Majoul - Sctivist in the Civil Peace Council
Fou'ad Pasha - Political activist
Hisham Arafat - Freelance journalist
Hussein Al-Assaf - Activist in the Civil Peace Council
Sultana Mohammed - Journalist at Radio Star FM
Mizgin Barakat, Member of Kurdish Democratic Progressive Party
Farhad Haj Darwish - Member of  Kurdish Democratic Progressive Party

National background of the participants:
Arabs: 2 - Kurds: 8 - Syriacs: 1


Main topics of the session:

• The Syrian crisis and the Geneva conferences.
• Syria's next constitution.
• The Syrian Constitutional Committee in Geneva.
• The role of the constitution in meeting the requirements of civil society, politicians and clan leaders of the region.

The facilitator started talking about the nine Geneva conferences and their results in detail, then the door was opened for discussion, consultations and questions by the participants, and all the questions were answered by the session facilitator.

In the second axis, a member of the Constitutional Committee, Dr. Dorsen Oskan, joined the session via the “Zoom” program to talk about the establishment and composition of the Constitutional Committee and the drawbacks of representing the Committee, in addition to talking about the main reasons for the failure of the Constitutional Committee in its work so far.

The door was opened for discussion and talked about the negatives and positives of the Geneva conferences, then the door was opened for questions and all the participants' questions were answered.

At the conclusion of the dialogue session, the attendees agreed on a set of recommendations and proposals to be submitted to the Syrian Constitutional Committee, which included:

• The state system is decentralized and pluralistic
• The system of government is a parliamentary republic
• Not specifying the gender, race and religion of the Syrian president.
• Country name: Republic of Syria.
• Preparing for the pre-constitution stage.
• Formation of Syrian committees to draft the constitution.
• Separation of religion and state.
• Limiting the term of the presidency to 4 years, and the term of office of a single president not exceeding two terms.
• Neutralization of the army and the adoption of a non-ideological army.
• Ensuring the application of the principle of equal opportunity.
• Ensuring the practice of religious rites and respect for all religions.
• The right to language and the guarantee of learning it.
• Emphasis on the principle of oversight of the performance of the authority by civil society organizations