--- title: Here’s a Real Plan to Beat ISIS and Save Syria description: Here’s a real plan to beat ISIS and save Syria, building pizza ovens can teach entrepreneurship and strengthen community and more. canonical: https://time.com/4595073/heres-a-real-plan-to-beat-isis-and-save-syria/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-12-08T17:00:03.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:59:15.393Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Here's a Real Plan to Beat ISIS and Save Syria og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4595073/heres-a-real-plan-to-beat-isis-and-save-syria/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Here's a Real Plan to Beat ISIS and Save Syria twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Here's a Real Plan to Beat ISIS and Save Syria by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Dec 8, 2016 5:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Dec 8, 2016 5:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Here’s a real plan to beat ISIS and save Syria.**](http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/12/07/how-to-salvage-syria.html) By Michael Weiss and Hassan Hassan in the Daily Beast **2\.** [**Can building pizza ovens teach entrepreneurship and strengthen community?**](http://theincline.com/2016/12/07/the-trade-institute-of-pittsburgh-wants-to-build-pizza-ovens-and-community/) By Sarah Anne Hughes in the Incline **3\.** [**What if random student drug testing only teaches kids how to avoid getting help?**](http://theinfluence.org/we-need-to-just-say-no-to-random-student-drug-testing/) By Jerry Otero in the Influence **4\.** [**This is why every California high schooler will soon take ethnic studies classes.**](http://www.pri.org/stories/2016-12-06/california-will-soon-provide-ethnic-studies-classes-all-high-schoolers-heres-why) By Grace Hwang Lynch at PRI’s the World **5\.** [**Here’s how Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Microsoft are teaming up to fight terrorism.**](http://fortune.com/2016/12/05/facebook-twitter-youtube-microsoft-terrorist-content/?utm%5Fsource=nextdraft) By Kia Kokalitcheva in Fortune  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4595073/heres-a-real-plan-to-beat-isis-and-save-syria/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4595073/heres-a-real-plan-to-beat-isis-and-save-syria/"},"headline":"Here's a Real Plan to Beat ISIS and Save Syria","datePublished":"2016-12-08T17:00:03.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:15.393Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4595073/heres-a-real-plan-to-beat-isis-and-save-syria/","keywords":["Innovation","Education","Drugs","Terrorism","ISIS","entrepreneurship"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4595073/heres-a-real-plan-to-beat-isis-and-save-syria/","name":"Here's a Real Plan to Beat ISIS and Save Syria"}}]}] ```