 UNDERSTANDING STATELESSNESS IN THE SYRIA REFUGEE CONTEXT CONCLUSION 6 The overwhelming majority of persons displaced by the conflict in Syria hold Syrian nationality and face no immediate risk of statelessness. Moreover, children born in exile inherit Syrian nationality automatically, by operation of the law, if they can establish that their father is a Syrian citizen. Nevertheless, the research undertaken within this project confirms the need to pay greater attention to helping Syrian refugees protect their right to Syrian nationality, especially in the face of problems relating to access to civil registration and to documentation proving nationality. It also draws further attention to the fact that a sub-set of refugees displaced by the conflict in Syria are stateless and shows that this poses an additional challenge to ensuring that their protection needs are met. These stateless refugees may also face particular problems in accessing durable solutions. Organisations engaged in the refugee response in the region would benefit from a better understanding of the interaction between displacement from Syria and (a risk of) statelessness. This would strengthen their ability to tailor programming or advocacy activities to mitigate the risk of statelessness among particularly vulnerable populations and to respond to the protection needs of stateless refugees from Syria. In other words, with improved access to information about the manner in which statelessness intersects with their work, refugee practitioners will be better able to meet the needs of their beneficiaries. This concluding chapter of the research report therefore provides a short summary of the principle findings of the research and offers suggestions as to how to translate these findings into practical tools for practitioners, drawing heavily on extensive consultations with persons engaged in the regional refugee response. The analysis is sub-divided by the three main target groups which were the focus of this research: 1) the general refugee population; 2) refugees at heightened risk of statelessness; and 3) stateless refugee. 54 RESEARCH REPORT