Political scientist with a longstanding interest in violent conflict, Libya and the Sahel. Author, Libya's Fragmentation; co-editor, Violence and Social Transformation in Libya. Views my own.
https://www.swp-berlin.org/en/researcher/wolfram-lacher
Wolfram Lacher
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"A glaring blind spot in Europe’s approach to information security...Germany illustrates the problem particularly clearly."
UN blames online disinformation for protests outside Libya offices reut.rs/3QqXFRU
An entire industry specializing in mediation, peacekeeping, disarmament, and transitional justice has become largely obsolete. What, then, was conflict studies for?
10 activists from 8 different countries remain detained in Sirte, eastern Libya, after participating in Al-Sumud humanitarian convoy heading to Gaza.
Read the full monthly report for an overview of the key human rights developments documented during the month.
🔗Report: lcw.ngo/en/p/126qs
Libya Crimes Watch (LCW) is monitoring with grave concern the escalation of serious violations, hate speech, and incitement to violence targeting migrants, refugees, asylum seekers, and foreign workers in Libya.
📄🔗 Read the Complete Statement on our website: lcw.ngo/en/p/126qn
Wolfram Lacher
Reuters
Re-upping my paper from last year for context on the political instrumentalisation of Libya's version of the grand replacement theory, in a situation where key actors have no interest in actual solutions.
Good coverage of Massad Boulos' misadventures in Libya, where his plans for a deal between the two ruling families have stoked intra-familial rivalries among the Haftars and Dabeibas. As I tell Il Foglio, he's mediating in African conflicts like someone going around a used car lot kicking tyres.
Following a week or so of what seems like a coordinated social media campaign stoking fears of a grand conspiracy to settle migrants in Libya, things are now predictably getting out of hand.
Very similar playbook to what happened a little over a year ago.
Good coverage of Massad Boulos' misadventures in Libya, where his plans for a deal between the two ruling families have stoked intra-familial rivalries among the Haftars and Dabeibas. As I tell Il Foglio, he's mediating in African conflicts like someone going around a used car lot kicking tyres.
dissentmagazine.org
An entire industry specializing in mediation, peacekeeping, disarmament, and transitional justice has become largely obsolete.
Guter Beitrag von Benjamin Schütze und @janwilkens.bsky.social zu dem inzwischen vollkommen rabiaten Projekt der KAS, die postkolonialen Studien als Feind zu markieren und damit genau die „Werte“ zu verraten, die sie zu verteidigen behaupten:
Wolfram Lacher
Wolfram Lacher
Wolfram Lacher
Consolidating the Detention System, Empowering Warlords and Provoking Backlash from the Libyan Public
The United Nations said on Friday it is deeply concerned by violent protests outside its offices in Libya this week and blamed social media for fueling disinformation about the world body's work in the country.
The Americans thought they had figured out how to reconcile the two clans that divide Libya between the west and the east. Instead, they ended up fueling further violence. A story of long-standing gru...
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Robert Heinze
Angriff auf die Wissenschaftsfreiheit: Wer stört, soll büßen
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