TY - SER AU - McCauley, Clark TI - What comes after ISIS? A Peace Proposal SN - 2334-3745 PY - 2016/// PB - Alex P. Schmid KW - Estado Islámico KW - Paz KW - Siria KW - Irak N2 - This proposal develops the following points: (i) Emotions are an important part of mobilizing for violent conflict, especially ethnic conflict. (ii) Sunni versus Shi’a in Iraq and Syria is more an ethnic than a religious conflict. (iii) Sunni in Syria and Iraq join ISIS for a job and for defense against humiliation and domination by Shi’a; religious ideology has little to do with recruitment. (iv) Sykes-Picot is dead; peace in the Middle East depends on development of some degree of self-determination and security, not only for Sunni and Shi’a but for Kurds, Alawites, Christians, and Druze. (v) There is a pressing need for a vision of the Middle East after ISIS; I briefly describe one possibility that Western countries might wish to support UR - http://www.terrorismanalysts.com/pt/index.php/pot/article/view/528/1041 ER -