Post-Script

We all know that conflict creates displacement. Life becomes untenable in different ways, and people are forced to move; the majority ending up as internally displaced within nation-state, while others wind refugee camps neighboring countries, a very few seek asylum faraway places. The recent war Ukraine Syria since 2011 seemingly fit into this classical conception of why how displaced. Sudden violent events them run for their lives. Often, we perceive flight one-way movement space time, move from hot spaces search cool ground. However, journeys most often more complicated—even straightforward cases like Syria. Decisions made gradually, steps at times leaps, sometimes stopping along way, other being temporarily reversed, individuals families continue engage with conflict, assessing its potential diffuse, escalate or morph something else (Bredeloup 2012; Collyer de Haas 2012). This collection engages closely these processes they unfold intimate sphere family friends keeping mind is still there it plays an active role Syrians’ present lives plans futures.