Challenges Facing Civil Society in Libya

Abstract

This paper tried to address the challenges facing the work of civil society in Libya, and civil society is "a network of voluntary organizations that fill the public sphere between the family and the state, and work to achieve the material and moral interests of its members and others, and defend these interests, within the framework of commitment to the values and standards of respect, compromise, political tolerance, and the peaceful management of differences and conflicts." The paper stressed that there are a number of difficulties and challenges that stand in the way of activating the activity of civil society in the Arab world, including, of course, the State of Libya, and this is due to several among them,Restrictions in laws and regulations  Lack of financial funding and its complexities  Lack of transparency and democratic practice within civil society institutions themselves  The absence of institutional building mechanisms and reliance on random and individual work