{"id":554,"date":"2019-11-04T17:33:42","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T17:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs2019\/?p=554"},"modified":"2019-11-04T17:33:42","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T17:33:42","slug":"democratic-federation-of-northern-syria-rojava","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs2019\/2019\/11\/04\/democratic-federation-of-northern-syria-rojava\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratic Federation of Northern Syria (Rojava)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am always on the lookout for Libertarian movements around the world, as I find the people who believe in the decentralization of power and having a government that is purposely handcuffed is a direct ideological challenge to the general world view of the importance of governments. When doing a scan for Libertarian movements in the Middle East I did not expect to find much of anything, but I did.<\/p>\n<p>The region of Rojava has been self autonomous since 2012 with provincial power granted to the provinces in the Democratic federation of Northern Syria. They have drafted a Constitution, hold direct democratic elections, protect religious freedoms, gender equality, environmental protectionist practices the region is also home to multiple ethnic groups, mainly those with no home, like Kurds and Assyrians,<\/p>\n<p>I have not researched the group fully, but my initial impression is that is a really amazing movement despite being in a region we would least expect an anti government, and pro individual freedom movement to exist. I will look in to it further as I am sure it is not all sunshine and rainbows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am always on the lookout for Libertarian movements around the world, as I find the people who believe in the decentralization of power and having a government that is purposely handcuffed is a direct ideological challenge to the general world view of the importance of governments. When doing a scan for Libertarian movements in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs2019\/2019\/11\/04\/democratic-federation-of-northern-syria-rojava\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Democratic Federation of Northern Syria (Rojava)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9196308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9196308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":557,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions\/557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}