Experience shows that security provided outside the state produces localized security but weakens overall national security and strains the relationship between Lebanese Shiites and their surrounding communities. Conversely, state security without realistic border guarantees may revive the anxieties of various groups. What is needed, therefore, is a measured compromise: restoring...
The “war of support,” this catastrophe, if it can be called that, is one of the deepest and most challenging calamities to have befallen the Shia community since the establishment of Greater Lebanon. Never before in their history have the Shia in Lebanon felt such anxieties about uprooting, displacement, or...
As part of the “Our Turn to Speak” initiative, which aims to build a network of activists and groups that believe in strengthening citizenship and its values to help rebuild the social contract. The initiative, together with Manatik Net launched a series of reports about working groups that started local...
As part of the “Our Time to Speak” initiative, which aims to build a network of activists and working groups committed to strengthening citizenship as a way to restore the social contract, a series of reports was launched in collaboration with Manateq Net. The series highlights groups that have voiced...
As part of the “Our Time to Speak” initiative, which aims to build a network of Lebanese activists and working groups committed to strengthening citizenship and its values as a way to restore the social contract threatened with disintegration, and in cooperation with the “Manaateq Net” platform, a series of...
