One year ago, an offensive led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) triggered the rapid collapse of President Bashar al-Assad’s government. Since then, under a transitional government led by former HTS leader Ahmed al-Sharaa, Syria has seen a period of profound governance, economic and security challenges and unresolved questions as to how the country unifies and rebuilds after over a decade of war.
While the transitional government has made early efforts to pursue accountability for perpetrators of human rights abuses under the Assad regime, far less attention has been devoted to a critical parallel issue of how the new government will be held accountable to the population.
In this webinar, a panel of experts discusses what Syria’s transitional government has achieved in the past year, the key challenges they face, and the Syrian public’s perceptions of the transitional authorities. The discussion also considers ongoing territorial fragmentation, Damascus’s prospects for restoring national cohesion, the future of accountability initiatives, and Syria’s evolving international engagement amid a rapidly shifting regional and global landscape.
