The symposium will take place on April 13, 2016 from 10 am - 6 pm in the VCU Commons Theater. It has been 5 years since the start of the February 17, 2011 revolution in Libya that overthrew the 42 year brutal dictatorship headed by Muammar Gadhafi. However, the promises of freedom, democracy, and prosperity that Libyans united and fought for have not materialized. Few had predicted Libya's demise into the failed statehood and chaos that we see today. With the increasing presence of terrorist groups, another international military intervention is looming. The VCU Global Education Office, Golden Key International Honor Society, and Arabic Club, along with the Tufts University Institute for Global Leadership and the Fares Center at Tufts, are sponsoring a symposium to assess the current challenges facing the country. Libyan practitioners and scholars will analyze key dimensions, including human rights, education, health, state-society relations, and local governance. Against this backdrop, and together with the participants, we will discuss these topics in order to shed light on the way forward in Libya.
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