Libya – An Elusive Lasting Peace?
More than a decade after Libya descended into conflict, the contours of a new society are emerging. How has violence reshaped the country? Which new groups, networks and identities have formed through conflict, and how has this transformed power structures and governance at local and national level? With the launch of a new edited volume exploring those questions, contributing author and Libya specialist Mary Fitzgerald will discuss Libya's trajectory, the role of foreign actors, and prospects for a lasting peace.
About the Speaker:
Mary Fitzgerald is a Non-Resident Scholar at the Middle East Institute in Washington DC where she specialises in Libya. She is also an associate fellow at ISCR, King’s College London, LUISS in Rome and ISPI in Milan Her work on post-Gaddafi Libya includes a focus on how the country intersects with wider African and Mediterranean dynamics. She lived in Libya in 2014. She is a contributing author to the newly published volume Violence and Social Transformation in Libya published by Hurst/Oxford University Press. Previously a journalist, she served as the Irish Times foreign affairs correspondent until 2014 and reported extensively across Africa and the Middle East during that time.
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