Libya Task Force

Maj.-Gen. Josef Blotz, Senior Military Advisor to the SRSG at UNSMIL and Dr. Canan Atilgan, Director of the KAS Regional Program South Mediterranean during the panel discussion on Security Sector Reform in Libya

H.E. Dr. Mahmoud Gebril, Former Prime Minister of Libya and President of the National Forces Alliance

H.E. Dr. Awad Ibrahim, Chairman of the Libyan Organization of Policies & Strategies (LOOPS) and Koert Debeuf, Director of the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy (TIMEP) (l.t.r.)

H.E. Dr. Ahmed Jehani, Former Libyan Minister of Stabilization and Reconstruction

Dr. Canan Atilgan, Director of the KAS Regional Program South Mediterranean and Mohamed Dayri, Former Foreign Minister from the Tobruk-based Council of Deputies

Mohamed Eljarh, Director of Libya Outlook Research and Consultancy (LORC) and Zahra’ Langhi, Co-Founder of the Libyan Women’s Platform for Peace (LWPP)

Dr. Wolfram Lacher, Libya expert and Senior Associate at SWP in Berlin

Mattia Toaldo, Political Officer at the Delegation of the European Union to Libya

Jalel Harchaoui, Lecturer at the Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée

Tim Eaton, Research Fellow of MENA Program at Chatham House

Mattia Toaldo with Mary Fitzgerald, and independent researcher based in Marseille

Mattia Toaldo, Tim Eaton, Mary Fitzgerald, Wolfram Lacher, Jalel Harchaoui (l.t.r.)

H.E. Dr. Awad Ibrahim and H.E. Dr. Mahmoud Gebril during the panel discussions

Camelia Oaida of the Euromed and Middle East Unit of the Delegation for Relations with Maghreb Countries (DMAG) at the European Parliament

Annemie Cumps, International Aid/Cooperation Officer, Desk Libya, DG-NEAR, European Commission

Maj.-Gen. Josef Blotz, UNSMIL, during the working sessions

Zahra' Langhi during her presentation

H.E. Dr. Awad Ibrahim during his presentation

Tarek Megerisi, Policy Fellow with the European Council on Foreign Relations andAnna Jandrey, Desk Officer Maghreb at the MENA Department of KAS Berlin

H.E. Mohamed Dayri with Maj.-Gen. Josef Blotz

In order to ‘rethink’ the European strategy towards Libya, the KAS Regional Program South Mediterranean organized a policy workshop from 30. – 31. August 2018 in Tunis that brought together Libyan and international experts as well as representatives of European institutions.

During the course of the workshop, participants outlined key problems and expectations in four core fields of action and discussed possibilities for European engagement in Libya in the areas of political support, humanitarian and development efforts, security sector reform, and economic empowerment. In separate working group sessions, experts gathered the key arguments and drafted policy recommendations for the European Union in supporting the stabilization and political transformation of Libya through a unified strategic approach for a peaceful, prosperous, and democratic Libyan future.

The expert policy recommendations will be presented to relevant institutions in Brussels within the coming months.