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8 - A Divided International Community Confronts a Divided Libya

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2020

Karin Wester
Affiliation:
Strategic Policy Advisor for the Middle East and North Africa of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands
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Summary

This chapter first examines the positions of the local actors in the evolving conflict in Libya: the Qadafi regime and its forces on the one hand; and the Transitional National Council and the opposition forces on the other. The second part assesses the role of a wide range of international actors – other than NATO – who were involved in addressing the Libyan crisis between March and October 2011. These actors – including the UN, the Libya Contact Group, regional organizations, and individual states – also claimed to have the authority to act on behalf of the international community. A number of them, while being highly critical of NATO’s implementation of resolution 1973, advocated an entirely different course of action vis-à-vis Libya, focused on brokering a political settlement to the conflict. Finally, the chapter examines the convergence of international views emerging towards the end of the conflict. It also assesses the decision-making process leading to the establishment of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), and to the termination of the Security Council mandate provided for in resolution 1973 – which effectively transferred the responsibility to protect back to Libya’s national authorities.

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Intervention in Libya
The Responsibility to Protect in North Africa
, pp. 252 - 289
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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