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Acknowledgements
I wish to express my sincere appreciation to those who graciously volunteered and shared their personal stories with me. This briefing would not have been completed without their contributions.
Notes
1 ‘Laws Issued by the Legislative Council of Al-Jazira Province in 2014’ are available on Al-Jazira Province Legislative Council website: https://goo.gl/fo4Vr1, accessed 28 February 2017.
2 The ‘Law of Self-Defence Duty in the Democratic Self-Administration areas’ is available on Al-Jazira Province Legislative Council website: https://goo.gl/QclFq3, accessed 28 February 2017.
3 The full text of the ‘Social Contract of the Democratic Federalism of Northern Syria’ is available on PYD Rojava website: pydrojava.net/arabic/archives/17620, accessed 5 August 2017.
4 The video of the protests in Amuda city includes an interview with Marwan Aidi, whose sister, Hamreen Aidi, was kidnapped and recruited by the YPJ forces. The video is available on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmEyBOxzlII, accessed 2 March 2017.
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Abdullah Al-Jabassini
ABDULLAH AL-JABASSINI is a Syrian PhD candidate in International Relations at the University of Kent. His general research interests include civilian behaviour during civil war, rebel governance, and the structure of paramilitary groups and insurgent organisations in Syria.