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2. Taming the Militias: Building National Guards in Fractured Arab States
- Author:
- Frederic M. Wehrey and Ariel I. Ahram
- Publication Date:
- 05-2015
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Abstract:
- Since the eruption of the Arab Spring in 2011, centralized military power has broken down in North Africa, the Levant, and Yemen, and several weak Arab states have turned to local militias to help defend regimes. While these pro-government militias can play important security roles, they have limited military capacity and reliability. Transitioning militia fighters into national guard forces with formal ties to the national command structure can overcome some of these limitations, but the shift must be accompanied by a wider commitment to security sector reform and political power sharing.
- Topic:
- Government
- Political Geography:
- Yemen, Arabia, and North Africa
3. Ending Libya's Civil War: Reconciling Politics, Rebuilding Security
- Author:
- Frederic M. Wehrey
- Publication Date:
- 09-2014
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Abstract:
- More than three years after the fall of strongman Muammar Qaddafi, Libya is in the midst of a bitter civil war rooted in a balance of weakness between the country's political factions and armed groups. With a domestic landscape torn apart by competing claims to power and with interference from regional actors serving to entrench divides, restoring stability in Libya and building a unified security structure will be difficult if not impossible without broad-based political reconciliation.
- Topic:
- Security, Political Violence, and Governance
- Political Geography:
- Libya, Arabia, and North Africa