ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with the development of the Democratic Autonomy and Democratic Confederalism concepts in Rojava society. It addresses the emergence of models for radical democracy in Rojava, by viewing the history of the Kurdish liberation movement and its impact on the region. The chapter provides a short introduction to the history of Kurdish political organization with focusing on the ideological shift within the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). Kurdish parties had already been formed by 1957 with the Democratic Party of Kurdistan (PYD)-Syria, from which most of the region's later Kurdish parties would issue. At least in the Kurdish regions, Democratic Confederalism has become a counterweight to the devastating consequences that monistic nation-statism has brought to the region. The foundation of the PYD is closely connected to the development of the Kurdish movement as inspired by the PKK.
