This week on Babel, Jon Alterman talks with Stephanie Williams, formerly the acting special representative of the UN Secretary-General and the head of the UN Support Mission in Libya. They talk about why the conflict in Libya has lasted this long, the importance of facilitating a Libyan-Libyan resolution to the conflict, and her role as a mediator in the process. Then, Natasha Hall, Will Todman, and Jon .discuss their own experiences with mediation elsewhere in the region
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:Contributors
Jon B. Alterman, Senior Vice President, Zbigniew Brzezinski Chair in Global Security and Geostrategy, and Director, Middle East Program
Natasha Hall, Senior Fellow, Middle East Program
Will Todman, Fellow, Middle East Program
:References
NYTimes Editorial Board, Can Libya Put Itself Back Together Again
Stephanie Turco Williams and Jeffrey Feltman, Can a political breakthrough mend a broken Libya
Brookings Event, Nonstate armed actors and the US Global Fragility Strategy
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Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)
