ABSTRACT
My participants all passionately highlight how the regimes under operation in their home countries were brutally corrupt and/or violent, interested only in their own political and economic sustenance. International factions charged with managing or intervening in these disputes and abuses complicate significantly any kind of stability, particularly in some countries across Central African countries, the Middle East and Asia, and the people I have met and come to know recognise this collusion. The aim of this chapter is to show how the political economies of these countries amputate the rights and choices of their own people, and in many cases, in the political vacuum Civil War and social chaos threatens as tribal/terrorist groups arise. Told through the lived experiences of the refugees themselves from Syria, this chapter puts this very argument together as my contacts reflect on life and what it was like as violence, torture, war and disorder began to prevail.
