Press Release

A NEW LIBYA?

Lights and shadows after the birth of the transitional government

On the occasion of the second Libyan Peace Conference on 23 June in Berlin, an online event analyses together with experts how the reconstruction of the Libyan state is progressing. With a focus on civil society

Rome, 22 June 2021 - On the occasion of the Second Conference on Peace in Libya - to be held in Berlin on 23 June and focused on the preparations for national elections and the withdrawal of foreign and mercenary troops from the country - Un Ponte Per has decided to launch an in-depth analysis of the Libyan context through a first live online meeting involving journalists and Libya experts.

The meeting will try to go beyond the dominant geopolitical narrative that reduces Libya to a "failed state", divided between rival militias and human traffickers.
For too long the Libyan territory and people have been considered a pawn in the hands of the power of the moment: historically Italy, then France and Britain, then the United States, Russia and finally Turkey. They have all tried to get their hands on the Libyan chessboard, constantly putting colonial political-economic interests before those of a population at the end of its tether, which has been living with guerrilla warfare and a total lack of security for years. The Human Rights Watch report on Libya is truly dramatic: people live in the complete absence of the rule of law, anyone can be outlawed at any time and sentenced to death.

In the Un Ponte Per meeting, the aim is to explore thepolitical and social evolution of the country with the birth of the transitional government - or of supposed national unity - through a lens that finally seeks the needs, hopes and perspectives of the Libyan people and its civil society, without forgetting the rights of migrants crossing the country.

All this will be discussed on 24 June starting at 16:30 live on Facebook on the Un Ponte Per page, together with guests: Francesca Mannocchi, investigative journalist expert on Libya, Farid Adly, Libyan writer and journalist, director Anbamed, Luca Raineri, researcher Security Studies and International Relations at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa. With them also Lodovico Mariani, Desk Programme Libya of Un Ponte Per and Giulia Torrini, National Committee of Un Ponte Per.

Link to the event: https://fb.me/e/TDgUvYsP

The initiative is part of the cycle of online meetings organised by Un Ponte Per on the occasion of its 30th anniversary.