While world leaders remain confused and divided and, most of all, usually indifferent over the future of Libya, its municipal leaders continue to point the way forward. Aided by nongovernmental organizations like the Humanitarian Dialogue, they are doing what outsider powers have so far failed to do in coming up with a realistic agenda for the country of six million, eight years after the overthrow of Muammar Qaddafi left it in chaos. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization had a major hand in that operation to depose the former strongman, while outside powers in Europe and the Middle East continue to do more harm than good today, since they support opposing actors within Libya, stoking more conflict and instability.
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