The Syrian Center for Policy Research (SCPR) ( ar, المركز السوري لبحوث السياسات) is a non-governmental

think tank A think tank, or policy institute, is a research institute that performs research and advocacy concerning topics such as social policy, political strategy, economics, military, technology, and culture. Most think tanks are non-governmenta ...

which carries out research related to issues of

public policy Public policy is an institutionalized proposal or a decided set of elements like laws, regulations, guidelines, and actions to solve or address relevant and real-world problems, guided by a conception and often implemented by programs. Public p ...

Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...

. Based in

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until 2016, SCPR was regarded as one of the most reliable local sources for information about the Syrian civil war since it was unaffiliated with any government or opposition group.

Notable research

In 2016, an SCPR study estimated that the number of dead due to the civil war was 470,000 and that as many as two million people had been injured. The study also stated that during the years of the war between 2011 and 2016 over 6 million Syrian

refugees A refugee, conventionally speaking, is a displaced person who has crossed national borders and who cannot or is unwilling to return home due to well-founded fear of persecution.

tried to escape the violence.

Strategic objectives

According to the SCPR, objectives include helping people in

to better initiate and engage in an open, respectful, and informed dialogue on key issues of public policy.

References

External links

* {{authority control Research institutes in Syria Syrian civil war