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CCSDS Negotiating Peace for Syria
3. Mechanisms for Inclusion. A committed, effective CSO can build engagement and confidence in peace processes. For a CSO seeking to represent citizens’ views in peace negotiations, legitimacy and credibility depends on its success in reaching out to, listening to and engaging a diverse range of people. This is critical to building trust and confidence
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CCSDS Negotiating Peace for Syria
2. Values/Principles/Criteria. As a CSO, CCSDS will play a constructive, independent and non-partisan role in the peace negotiations. To defend its independence and neutrality CCSDS will use objective criteria to decide on negotiating priorities and develop negotiating positions on these. These objective criteria will come from CCSDS values and principles. This approach allows CCSDS to
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CCSDS Negotiating Peace for Syria
1. Entering/Advocating at Track 1 Peace Negotiations. The CCSDS goal in engaging in Track 1 Peace Negotiations is to have a sustainable peaceful solution to the conflict. CCSDS arrived at the conclusion that working for a political solution for peace was necessary because the military solution will not work. A political solution is inevitable at
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CCSDS Negotiating Peace for Syria
Centre for Civil Society and Democracy in Syria CCSDS was founded as an independent civil society organisation to support Syrian people, advocate for attention to their concerns and build the conditions for a peaceful future. CCSDS works to improve the situation for people in Syria, brings new creative ideas and gets people working together. CCSDS
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CCSDS Track 1 – Priorities for Negotiation
Introduction In considering negotiating positions, mechanisms and actions account should be taken of the different stages in the negotiating and peace building process. It is important to consider what it is possible to achieve at different stages of a negotiating process. Elements to consider include: (i) immediate needs; (ii) trust and confidence building measures; (iii)
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Centre for Civil Society monitors the elections of Kilis camp
The Centre for Civil Society and Democracy in Syria have sent a group of observers to monitor the elections organized by the Turkish government in Kilis camp for the displaced Syrians on January 17th, 2013 to choose mayors and their assistants in the camp. Observers visited polling stations inside the camp and followed the course
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