Addressing Atrocity in Syria: New Challenges for Transitional JusticeAl-Kahwati, A. & Mannergren Se

people in the city of Deraa who had taken to © 2021 The Swedish Institute of International Affairs 5 the streets to protest against the arrest and as the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, torture of teenagers who had painted Qatar and Turkey aided the different groups revolutionary slogans against the regime, that formed the opposition. [...] As noted above, the The fascinating murals depict and comment Syrian Revolution began in an artistic act of on all aspects of life during the war, resistance by a group of teenage boys in the including the pain of losing family members rural town of Dara'a, who in March 2011 and the exhilaration of participating in painted murals and graffiti as a protest protests. [...] The most recent theme concerns © 2021 The Swedish Institute of International Affairs 14 the struggle to navigate the threat of a medium that makes it possible to transmit COVID-19 in the midst of oppression and the horror of torture. [...] In the case of Syria, the early enthusiasm of the absence of a clear commitment from international community waned as the international actors to ending the conflict, conflict wore on, and civil society in the transitional justice advocates can find new country and the diaspora had to compete paths to accountability, acknowledgement for funds as donor interest turned to more © 2021 The Swedish Ins. [...] At the same time, the of the negative consequences of excluding field also suffers from a lack of theoretical those parts of the population that may be thinking as a consequence of being an most affected, and the need to pay special “over-burdened and under-conceptualised 8 See for instance: transitional-justice/ © 2021 The Swedish Institute of Inter.