On 17 December, Chatham House published a paper by senior research fellow Tim Eaton, titled ‘Escaping the cycle of conflict in Libya’. The paper criticises the policies adopted to address Libya’s political and security crises, arguing that they rely on a ‘flawed system of elite bargains in which power- and wealth-sharing are used to keep the peace among rival factions’. The author explains that such policies often aggravate some of the very conflict dynamics they are intended to remedy, instead making the case for an ‘alternative approach’.
Read the full paper here.