Emma Beals
@ejbeals.bsky.social
Constructive disrupter. Working on: the crisis in peace/conflict, disrupting aid, democracy/human rights, systems change and the mess we’re in. Former: Syria. Do: research, analysis, policy, piloting. Affiliations: EIP, MEI. Opinions my own. EmmaBeals.com
“Think big or go home” — @bashair.bsky.social saying what needs to be said at the Centre for Humanitarian Leadership Conference in Doha.
April 8, 2025 at 9:04 AM
“Think big or go home” — @bashair.bsky.social saying what needs to be said at the Centre for Humanitarian Leadership Conference in Doha.
Join us at 16:30 TODAY in Geneva if you’re around for HPNW
March 24, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Join us at 16:30 TODAY in Geneva if you’re around for HPNW
Join us on Monday!
Join us in Geneva on March 24 for a solutions-focused event looking at how we can meet the moment in a shifting aid landscape, and leverage what is working to support communities in crisis. A new way of responding to crisis is vital, learn how to do more from those who’re already doing it!
March 18, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Join us on Monday!
Join us in Geneva on March 24 for a solutions-focused event looking at how we can meet the moment in a shifting aid landscape, and leverage what is working to support communities in crisis. A new way of responding to crisis is vital, learn how to do more from those who’re already doing it!
March 14, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Join us in Geneva on March 24 for a solutions-focused event looking at how we can meet the moment in a shifting aid landscape, and leverage what is working to support communities in crisis. A new way of responding to crisis is vital, learn how to do more from those who’re already doing it!
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Important from @ejbeals.bsky.social… www.mei.edu/publications...
Preserving evidence and securing justice for Assad’s crimes
Under former President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, the Syrian security sector kept meticulous records of their crimes. The international community must now step up to help Syria’s new authorities secure...
www.mei.edu
December 21, 2024 at 11:30 AM
Important from @ejbeals.bsky.social… www.mei.edu/publications...
Reflections from Syria. Very briefly, for now. Lots more to come in the days/weeks ahead.
Three things are happening at once:
1/ The joy, relief, and miracle of it all.
2/ The huge grief and horror.
3/ The uncertainty, complexity, and huge work ahead.
Three things are happening at once:
1/ The joy, relief, and miracle of it all.
2/ The huge grief and horror.
3/ The uncertainty, complexity, and huge work ahead.
December 21, 2024 at 8:53 AM
Reflections from Syria. Very briefly, for now. Lots more to come in the days/weeks ahead.
Three things are happening at once:
1/ The joy, relief, and miracle of it all.
2/ The huge grief and horror.
3/ The uncertainty, complexity, and huge work ahead.
Three things are happening at once:
1/ The joy, relief, and miracle of it all.
2/ The huge grief and horror.
3/ The uncertainty, complexity, and huge work ahead.
Reposted by Emma Beals
By @ejbeals.bsky.social on preserving evidence and securing justice for Assad's crimes.
www.mei.edu/publications...
www.mei.edu/publications...
Preserving evidence and securing justice for Assad’s crimes
Under former President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, the Syrian security sector kept meticulous records of their crimes. The international community must now step up to help Syria’s new authorities secure...
www.mei.edu
December 21, 2024 at 1:29 AM
By @ejbeals.bsky.social on preserving evidence and securing justice for Assad's crimes.
www.mei.edu/publications...
www.mei.edu/publications...
Just back from five days in Damascus. Not something I thought I’d be saying. Syria is free and the future is being written in real time. Truly a privilege to witness a small part of that. Will take a bit to process and find the words, but for now…
December 18, 2024 at 9:06 AM
Just back from five days in Damascus. Not something I thought I’d be saying. Syria is free and the future is being written in real time. Truly a privilege to witness a small part of that. Will take a bit to process and find the words, but for now…
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A lot is happening in Syria.
Want to follow along with additional context, local knowledge, and those who witnessed it in real-time?
Here’s a starter pack: Syria from 2011 and beyond.
go.bsky.app/3ng3Ghq
Want to follow along with additional context, local knowledge, and those who witnessed it in real-time?
Here’s a starter pack: Syria from 2011 and beyond.
go.bsky.app/3ng3Ghq
December 7, 2024 at 10:13 PM
A lot is happening in Syria.
Want to follow along with additional context, local knowledge, and those who witnessed it in real-time?
Here’s a starter pack: Syria from 2011 and beyond.
go.bsky.app/3ng3Ghq
Want to follow along with additional context, local knowledge, and those who witnessed it in real-time?
Here’s a starter pack: Syria from 2011 and beyond.
go.bsky.app/3ng3Ghq
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If you don't know the story of Douma and Eastern Ghouta, start here. cc @benimmo.bsky.social @ejbeals.bsky.social @eliothiggins.bsky.social @michaelsheldon.bsky.social
www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-res...
www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-res...
Breaking Ghouta
This report offers a record of serial violations of international norms and a basis for holding the perpetrators accountable for their atrocities.
www.atlanticcouncil.org
December 7, 2024 at 6:46 PM
If you don't know the story of Douma and Eastern Ghouta, start here. cc @benimmo.bsky.social @ejbeals.bsky.social @eliothiggins.bsky.social @michaelsheldon.bsky.social
www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-res...
www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-res...
I’m in a state of total overwhelm. As is everyone I’m talking to. Hopeful, relieved, worried, and suddenly feeling the avalanche of the last 14 years, the memories all flooding back, the friendships, the grief, the lives lost, the work done, the anger, the gaslighting.
December 7, 2024 at 1:35 PM
I’m in a state of total overwhelm. As is everyone I’m talking to. Hopeful, relieved, worried, and suddenly feeling the avalanche of the last 14 years, the memories all flooding back, the friendships, the grief, the lives lost, the work done, the anger, the gaslighting.
Folks, wars go far far beyond armed groups. If your analysis of outcomes focuses only on these, I don’t really know what to tell you…
December 6, 2024 at 6:20 PM
Folks, wars go far far beyond armed groups. If your analysis of outcomes focuses only on these, I don’t really know what to tell you…
My belief in the power of the international community to grab defeat from the jaws of victory, and make a good go of trashing many of the locally-led positives we've seen so far, has indeed been bolstered over the last 48 hours.
Anyone purporting to be interested in localized peacebuilding would do well to listen very carefully to Syrians right now, particularly those from in and around Aleppo. Something remarkable is happening, and how the world reacts to it will be a defining point in Syria's future.
December 6, 2024 at 4:58 PM
My belief in the power of the international community to grab defeat from the jaws of victory, and make a good go of trashing many of the locally-led positives we've seen so far, has indeed been bolstered over the last 48 hours.
Events in Syria are unfolding far too quickly to cover in real-time--also too much work to be done! Needless to say, Assad only really holds Homs (for how long?), Damascus, and the coast. The South has joined the fray; the East is out of regime control.
December 6, 2024 at 4:54 PM
Events in Syria are unfolding far too quickly to cover in real-time--also too much work to be done! Needless to say, Assad only really holds Homs (for how long?), Damascus, and the coast. The South has joined the fray; the East is out of regime control.
Anyone purporting to be interested in localized peacebuilding would do well to listen very carefully to Syrians right now, particularly those from in and around Aleppo. Something remarkable is happening, and how the world reacts to it will be a defining point in Syria's future.
December 4, 2024 at 10:48 AM
Anyone purporting to be interested in localized peacebuilding would do well to listen very carefully to Syrians right now, particularly those from in and around Aleppo. Something remarkable is happening, and how the world reacts to it will be a defining point in Syria's future.
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OK, here we go.
Here's a comprehensive guide to what's happened in #Syria in recent days -- lots of exclusive details, data & analysis on the capture of #Aleppo & much more.
www.syriaweekly.com/p/special-sy...
Here's a comprehensive guide to what's happened in #Syria in recent days -- lots of exclusive details, data & analysis on the capture of #Aleppo & much more.
www.syriaweekly.com/p/special-sy...
SPECIAL: Syria -- Nov 26-Dec 3, 2024
HTS & opposition take Aleppo city, doubling territory in 6 days
www.syriaweekly.com
December 3, 2024 at 3:21 PM
OK, here we go.
Here's a comprehensive guide to what's happened in #Syria in recent days -- lots of exclusive details, data & analysis on the capture of #Aleppo & much more.
www.syriaweekly.com/p/special-sy...
Here's a comprehensive guide to what's happened in #Syria in recent days -- lots of exclusive details, data & analysis on the capture of #Aleppo & much more.
www.syriaweekly.com/p/special-sy...
👏🏼now👏🏼do👏🏼you👏🏼get👏🏼that👏🏼unresolved👏🏼conflicts👏🏼are👏🏼still👏🏼conflicts👏🏼and👏🏼you👏🏼can’t👏🏼just👏🏼ignore👏🏼them👏🏼and👏🏼hope👏🏼they👏🏼go👏🏼away👏🏼
November 30, 2024 at 8:09 PM
👏🏼now👏🏼do👏🏼you👏🏼get👏🏼that👏🏼unresolved👏🏼conflicts👏🏼are👏🏼still👏🏼conflicts👏🏼and👏🏼you👏🏼can’t👏🏼just👏🏼ignore👏🏼them👏🏼and👏🏼hope👏🏼they👏🏼go👏🏼away👏🏼
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Anyone interested in Syria reporting and following of news updates, here is a helpful list to start with:
go.bsky.app/TpjA464
go.bsky.app/TpjA464
November 29, 2024 at 1:14 PM
Anyone interested in Syria reporting and following of news updates, here is a helpful list to start with:
go.bsky.app/TpjA464
go.bsky.app/TpjA464
A notable datapoint on Syria is the way ostensibly pro-Assad people are speaking on platforms like that other app/FB etc. Previously nominally regime-aligned folks would speak against them in private, but remain steadfast in public, or comment in a very particular way when criticizing.
November 30, 2024 at 7:46 PM
A notable datapoint on Syria is the way ostensibly pro-Assad people are speaking on platforms like that other app/FB etc. Previously nominally regime-aligned folks would speak against them in private, but remain steadfast in public, or comment in a very particular way when criticizing.
Idlib, Aleppo, Hama…nothing short of a complete regime collapse. Events moving so quickly it’s impossible to grasp what’s going on, let alone pontificate about what’s next. But unrest in Daraa and *something* going on Damascus suggest this isn’t stopping any time soon.
November 30, 2024 at 6:26 PM
Idlib, Aleppo, Hama…nothing short of a complete regime collapse. Events moving so quickly it’s impossible to grasp what’s going on, let alone pontificate about what’s next. But unrest in Daraa and *something* going on Damascus suggest this isn’t stopping any time soon.
Trump won the election and and all eyes are on Aleppo. It does rather feel like we fell down a rabbit-hole and landed back in 2016.
November 29, 2024 at 4:58 PM
Trump won the election and and all eyes are on Aleppo. It does rather feel like we fell down a rabbit-hole and landed back in 2016.
First time in a long time I’ve seen Syrian friends and colleagues expressing hope of seeing homes, families, and missing relatives again.
Beyond the play by play of frontlines and the inevitable horrors of war still to come, a crack letting light in to the long-carried pain of so many is moving.
Beyond the play by play of frontlines and the inevitable horrors of war still to come, a crack letting light in to the long-carried pain of so many is moving.
November 29, 2024 at 3:36 PM
First time in a long time I’ve seen Syrian friends and colleagues expressing hope of seeing homes, families, and missing relatives again.
Beyond the play by play of frontlines and the inevitable horrors of war still to come, a crack letting light in to the long-carried pain of so many is moving.
Beyond the play by play of frontlines and the inevitable horrors of war still to come, a crack letting light in to the long-carried pain of so many is moving.
It was truly a joy to spend a moment sitting with the big feelings of elation and relief at the start of the ceasefire with Lebanese friends today. Plenty to get into on potential road bumps, but the immediate impact of the ceasefire can’t be understated.
November 27, 2024 at 2:18 PM
It was truly a joy to spend a moment sitting with the big feelings of elation and relief at the start of the ceasefire with Lebanese friends today. Plenty to get into on potential road bumps, but the immediate impact of the ceasefire can’t be understated.