20–23 Jun 2023
Europe/London timezone

Libya's Quest For Democracy: "Won the War But Lost the Peace"

21 Jun 2023, 09:00

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The present is always informed by the past and Libya’s political chaos is the perfect fit for this saying as from the dawn of the 21st century, Libya once again struggled with humanitarian intervention under the R2P by NATO as it once smashed by Italian occupation. Later on for almost 42 years, Libya became the two sides of a coin as on one hand, its economy reached at the pinnacle of the seventh sky, whereas its human rights were in peril under the authoritarian rule of Colonel Gaddafi. Apart from this, there has not been a single democratic election held after the end of the Arab uprising (to which they saw hope for democracy) in Libya due to the rivalries among the political parties such as the Unitary provisional unity government, Government of National Accord, National Transitional Congress and other stakeholders for the quest of power. This paper will try to highlight, the multidimensional problems which are being faced by the country on the way to establish a democratic political structure and will try to find that what measures should be taken in order to establish an effective authority capable of providing functional services with consistent institutions. The paper will try to find out why there is still a deficiency of democracy over the time after the fall of Gaddafi under the R2P operation led by UNSC. It will also try to find out how much the governance institutions functionally achieved their mission under the influence of internal and external multilateral actors. It will also try to find out the political changes that have been taken after the wake of the Arab Uprising and were they better than before? The aim of this piece is to examine the current political practices of Libya from 2011 - 2021 and the state administration process in order to examine the past and present administrative processes of the management processes that have been found in the social and cultural structure of the Libyan society and to make proposals for the future application of the ideal political system.

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