With the finalisation of the end conferences in Tripoli and Leiden, and the final research report, the Access to Justice in Libya (A2JiL) project has come to an end. A message from the project leader:
The final research report on the Access to Justice in Libya project is available on the website, together with three policy briefs expanding on key aspects of the research.
Based on experience gathered under the Access to Justice in Libya project (2021-2026), this Research Guide provides practical guidance on doing socio-legal research on access to justice in the Arab world.
The report presenting the results of the Access to Justice in Libya survey is available on the website.
As the 'Access to Justice in Libya' (A2JiL) research project (2021-2026) enters its final two months, the project team in Libya and the Netherlands is finalising the last project outputs, and organising dissemination of the research results.
In the 1970s, the revolutionary regime of Muammar Gaddafi expropriated and redistributed land. In the aftermath of his fall, former owners started to claim their land back - putting them at loggerheads with current occupants. Dr Suliman Ibrahim analysed one particularly revealing land dispute in the eastern Libyan city of Tobruk which seemed impossible to resolve until its very unexpected end.
What are the experiences of people looking for justice in contemporary Libya? For Phase 1 of the Access to Justice-project, Supreme Court Judge Ali Abu Raas analysed the justice journeys of three family members of the victims of the Abu Salim-prison massacre of 1996, during which an estimated 1270 prisoners were killed.
South Libya’s capital Sabha has seen an increase in abductions since the fall of Gaddafi in 2011. Dr Mabrouka el-Farawi investigated the justice journeys of four families in Sabha whose children were abducted for ransom. Where police proved unable or unwilling to help, people turned to armed groups and tribal authorities who could often do more.
During Libya's 2011-12 revolution and armed conflict, people were murdered on all sides. Attaher Elhaj shows how in Bani Walid, the ensuing justice journeys of surviving relatives have been profoundly shaped by the alleged political allegiances of their murdered relatives and those who murdered them.
