The Arab World: Between Violence and Consensus

... assumes that political decisions are adopted not as the result of the victory of one side over another, but through a process in which the sides search for an agreement together. The principle has been developed most successfully in Tunisia, where the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet was able to bring an end to the civil confrontation of the government and the opposition. The idea of Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for Libya Ghassan Salamé to hold an inclusive National Congress and his putting forward of the Libyan municipalities as the basis for the restoration of the country is another indication of movement in the same direction. The proposal once put forward by ...