“In the cantons of Rojava, there is a small central government with an absolute minimum of 40% female delegates, but most of the day-to-day work of running society happens at a local level, street by street and village by village.<\/p>\n
Democratic Confederalism’s chief architect, Abdullah Ocalan, says that \u201cEcology and feminism are central pillars\u201d of the system he has spearheaded, something that you would have to go very far to the margins to hear from Western politicians.<\/p>\n
In Rojava, men who beat their wives face total ostracism from the community, making their lives in a highly social, connected society virtually impossible. Instead of a police force and jails, ‘peace committees’ in each municipality work to defuse the cycles of inter-family revenge killings by consensual agreements between both sides \u2013 and it works.”<\/p>\n
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