Prospects for peace in Syria: arming the rebels?


What can Western governments do to promote peace in Syria? Should the EU send arms to Syrian rebels? And if so, to which ones? Mary Kaldor (Professor of Global Governance at the London School of Economics) gives her vision.

Arming the rebels and prospects for peace.

On June 12th, Professor Kaldor delivered a keynote address at the ‘New Wars, Old Laws?’, a conference by the Amsterdam Law Forum (ALF). Bruno Braak interviewed her on the Syrian civil war and ways for the international community to decrease the violence.

For more information on Mary Kaldor please refer to: her Wikipedia-page; the London School of Economics; or her CV.