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The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, together with the Arab Fund for Social and Economic Development, held a regional conference in Kuwait City to consider the role of citizenship education in the Arab transitions.
Foreign assistance from the West must move beyond a narrow counterterrorism focus and governments in the region need to cooperate and demonstrate the resolve to tackle the root causes of the chaos.
Training a new military force in Libya could throw the country deeper into strife. Instead, Libya needs a fresh social contract that reconciles opposing factions and produces a government with real legitimacy.
Post-Qaddafi Libya faces a number of significant challenges as it struggles to rein in militias and build political, economic, and security institutions.
The geopolitical significance of the Sahara is becoming painfully clear, as unrest spills over borders and aggravates protracted regional crises.
A focus on the differences between political actors and their implications for political development could distract attention from trying to understand the critical institutional changes underway in countries across the Arab world.
Unifying the country will require widespread dialogue and international assistance.
While the world’s attention was fixed on the momentous events in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya after the outbreak of the Arab Awakening, the desert states to the south were undergoing their own transformations with major global implications.
Despite paying lip service to reform, many Arab nations’ education programs fail to prepare students to become contributing members of open, pluralistic systems.
As Libya faces its greatest political crisis since the 2011 revolution, now is the time for greater assistance from the United States and Libya’s Western allies.