Hussein Zedo
Footages the of daily life of the internally displaced people who fled the war in northern Syria (areas of Turkish military invasion), to be moving between shelters and camps, is considered to be an important source of understanding their situation post war time, and leads us to the conclusion that the refugee life progresses towards a fragile social situation.
Negative responses created upon violence
During a press interview with a number of IDPs, a feeling of a desperate soul was notable, as if the horizon was blocked before their eyes and minds, to engage in a deteriorated social relations, because of the fading ties of the former local community, starting with the family to the narrow new local community, and then the situation reaching a painful inter-collision, which produces social problems intensively, and reactions may affect even the private property of individuals to be damaged, which would be resulted from the impatience after subjecting to violence.
Moving from a social cell to another, wastes the refugees’ societal peculiarities, as engaging in the new environment affected by new and varied peculiarities, most of which are negative, since the violence practiced in the war has affected the depth of the peculiarities of local communities, cutting the thread that connects the regions and previous local segments, tearing one of good customs and dealings, and it aimed to cut off local communities from the comprehensive national identity, as well as repressing the peaceful coexistence character.
Moreover, the excessive violence received by the refugee has turned him into a state of resistance in the face of policies that bring violence, which would cause future problems and a barrier to peaceful living in those societies.
Blocking of reshaping the social relationship
The attacks of the Turkish military and the affiliated Syrian armed opposition groups that invaded northeastern Syria, have quickly took the nature of national violence contrary to the religious character, and the difference became vast between the two cases ( Label and application). Hence, suspicious perception by the IDP towards religious belief will also affect the change in the method of upcoming upbringing of generations of local communities, as he has faced violence in the name of religion, tended to be violent against violence.
Rebuilding the healthy social relations among the local communities again, has become impossible as the new and fragile social situation resulted from the interaction between the psychological determinants of the IDP who was subjected to violence, and intersecting detail of life. As IDP’s new behavior is a clear expression of the blockage of reshaping the healthy social relationship, as he only sees recovery through violence therefore.
Reaping the offcuts of violence
Poverty and unemployment, delayed marriage age, interruption in education, and an increase in diseases, are the IDP’s share in the end, and he cannot face these results and remnants nor can he eradicate them, so he would tend to be violent to treat the problems, which are the result of countries’ failure to deal and reach effective solutions with local communities in northern Syria.
Children are the most affected by violence and life of IDPs, where violence is the first educational scene in their development process, so it became rooted in their minds and souls, especially since they are now isolated from the rights of childhood in their new society, which are stipulated in the International Convention on the Rights of the Child such as the right of education, shelter, playing, care and health. If the culture of violence is rooted in the displaced child's mind and hasn't been eliminated, this will have future consequences for local communities and countries. On the other hand, women also suffer in the life of IDPs from two things; they are the cruelty of the new life, and the heavy burden of being responsible in keeping her children from being lost, as she also has been affected by the violence that she received, so she has her share from the struggle in the new life.
It is good to deal with the roots of the problem rather than overlook it, because ignoring the causes of the culture of violence promotes more violence and re-develops fragile social relationships for the entire society, as in the end it will clearly cost the whole Syria and the neighboring countries.