Libya Post Conflict
The Effects of the Libyan Conflict
Points Outlined
The reconstruction of the Libyan State
The uncontrolled domains (need for control establishment).
The dissolvent of the Militias
Economic reconstruction
1.1 Libya’s awakening.
As the dust begins to settle in Libya two things are clear. Though NATO is celebrating its triumph, its campaign actually raises serious question about its future; and while Libyans rejoice at their freedom. Libya lays between Egypt and Tunisia the two successive stories, at least for now of the Arab awakening, however Libya’s background is much darker as it faces the frightening challenge that Afghans and Iraqis did: where the state has collapsed, and while relatively ethnically homogenous, overwhelmingly Sunni Libya will not face the ethno-religious strife that Iraq has, it will encounter other difficult problems that have emerged in post-conflict settings where the basic institutions of governance had to be built from the wreckage of dictatorship. Fears that Libya will become the next Somalia are over blown; any democratic change in Libya must be protracted and fragile.
1.2 Gaddafi’s Dictatorship seal.
Of course, the destiny of Muammar Qaddafi’s forty-year-old dictatorship was sealed once the UN Security Council passed Resolution 1970 which condemned the use of lethal force by Muammar Qaddafi, referring his regime to the International Criminal Court and imposing sanctions, and particularly after the council followed up with Resolution 1973, which authorized the no-fly zone that would render his air and armor effectively unusable. These resolutions were done so that Libya would not be supplied with arms. The Libyan insurgents began to receive weapons and training from the outside, special forces from France, Britain, Jordan, and Qatar were deployed to help them, the Qaddafi regime’s financial assets were frozen, a naval quarantine was imposed, and stream of states began to recognize the National Transitional Council (NTC) — a
Points Outlined
The reconstruction of the Libyan State
The uncontrolled domains (need for control establishment).
The dissolvent of the Militias
Economic reconstruction
1.1 Libya’s awakening.
As the dust begins to settle in Libya two things are clear. Though NATO is celebrating its triumph, its campaign actually raises serious question about its future; and while Libyans rejoice at their freedom. Libya lays between Egypt and Tunisia the two successive stories, at least for now of the Arab awakening, however Libya’s background is much darker as it faces the frightening challenge that Afghans and Iraqis did: where the state has collapsed, and while relatively ethnically homogenous, overwhelmingly Sunni Libya will not face the ethno-religious strife that Iraq has, it will encounter other difficult problems that have emerged in post-conflict settings where the basic institutions of governance had to be built from the wreckage of dictatorship. Fears that Libya will become the next Somalia are over blown; any democratic change in Libya must be protracted and fragile.
1.2 Gaddafi’s Dictatorship seal.
Of course, the destiny of Muammar Qaddafi’s forty-year-old dictatorship was sealed once the UN Security Council passed Resolution 1970 which condemned the use of lethal force by Muammar Qaddafi, referring his regime to the International Criminal Court and imposing sanctions, and particularly after the council followed up with Resolution 1973, which authorized the no-fly zone that would render his air and armor effectively unusable. These resolutions were done so that Libya would not be supplied with arms. The Libyan insurgents began to receive weapons and training from the outside, special forces from France, Britain, Jordan, and Qatar were deployed to help them, the Qaddafi regime’s financial assets were frozen, a naval quarantine was imposed, and stream of states began to recognize the National Transitional Council (NTC) — a