By Kate Vigneswaran & Vito Todeschini Accountability is typically absent from many discussions on Libya, despite the prevalence of gross human rights violations and crimes being committed on a widespread scale.
Analyses
It’s the Economy Stupid (2)
How Libya’s Civil War Is Rooted in Its Economic Structures By Jason Pack Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI) releases Jason...
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Pandora’s Box: What, if anything, can the ICC do for Libya?
By Mark Kersten In the midst of Libya’s uprising and civil war, Idriss Déby issued a stern warning: “beware of opening...
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How Libya’s Civil War Is Rooted in Its Economic Structures By Jason Pack This paper claims that the root of the country’s stymied transition and its post-2014 civil war is primarily economic – not political or ideological.
International accountability as a tool to empower and protect By Jeremie Smith & Karim Salem Over the last eight years Libya has become increasingly ruled by warlords and armed groups who regularly carry out brutal crimes and atrocities...
By Marwa Mohamed The European Union’s migration containment policy is trapping people in detention centres that are being targeted in the Libyan conflict.
By Salah Marghani It was seemingly innocuous. On 2 February 2017, the Italian Government, supported by EU, prompted a Libyan UN-proclaimed Presidential Council or (GNA), to sign a vaguely albeit smartly worded memorandum of understanding (MOU).
A Return to Gadhafi Era By Mirco Keilberth and Fritz Schaap Benghazi was the center of the revolution against Gadhafi, the former Libyan dictator. After driving out the February 17 revolutionaries, warlord Khalifa Haftar has set up a culture...
By Mary Fitzgerald When Libyans took to the streets in early 2011 demanding change, one of their key demands was justice.
By Rebecca Murray Five months into the LNA’s offensive on the Libyan capital no side seems close to victory, despite heavy foreign backing.
By Ben Fishman Five months into Libya’s latest civil war, the violence continues unabated. Since Khalifa Haftar launched his attack on Tripoli in April, the war has left more than 1,100 dead and over 100,000 displaced.
By Giorgio Cafiero & Emily Torjusen External actors continue their deep involvement in Libya’s multifaceted civil war.
By Emadeddin Badi Khalifa Hifter has managed to garner outside support by appealing to foreign states’ desire for a stable Libya, but this rogue former general and would-be authoritarian has proven a troublesome proxy.
By Richard Baffa, Nathan Vest, Wing Yi Chan, and Abby Fanlo This paper defines Salafi-jihadis are those who undertake armed struggle to impose their Salafi idealization on their societies and worldwide.
Undetermined legal status and implications for Libya’s peace process By Valerie Stocker This policy paper aims to provide an overview of citizenship-related grievances in Libya and approaches to address these.
Undetermined legal status and implications for Libya’s peace process By Valerie Stocker This policy paper aims to provide an overview of citizenship-related grievances in Libya and approaches to address these.
Undetermined legal status and implications for Libya’s peace process By Valerie Stocker This policy paper aims to provide an overview of citizenship-related grievances in Libya and approaches to address these.
How the 2019 Civil War is Transforming Libya’s Military Landscape By Wolfram Lacher This Briefing Paper examines the identities and interests of the forces fighting each other over control of Tripoli.
Between people power and state power By Frederic Volpia & Ewan Stein This paper examines the trajectories of different Islamist trends in the light of the Arab uprisings. In the following section, we track the evolution of statist and...
Undetermined legal status and implications for Libya’s peace process By Valerie Stocker This policy paper aims to provide an overview of citizenship-related grievances in Libya and approaches to address these.