Libya: When Cities Contribute to Building the Foundations for Stability and Growth, in Partnership with European Local and Regional Authorities

Filippo Terruso

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Libya: When Cities Contribute to Building the Foundations for Stability and Growth, in Partnership with European Local and Regional Authorities

Filippo Terruso

Published in Advances in Sciences and Humanities (Volume 3, Issue 4)

Received: 5 July 2017 Accepted: 14 July 2017 Published: 9 August 2017

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Local and regional authorities (LRAs) work to strengthen cross-border cooperation or relations with counterparts of third countries with a view to open up to new opportunities for economic, social or political development. Stability in a given geographical area affected by political turmoil can push LRAs to intervene in order to offer to classical diplomacy new and complementary channels for communication. This implies capacity actions buildings where rule of law, democracy, human rights, transparency, fight corruption are tackled. In addition, capacity building is instrumental to service delivery, led by LRAs in order to provide better conditions and future perspective to citizens. Elected mayors can promote better governance at the local level and insofar strengthening the concept of local democracy, which is also connected with the consolidation of institutions in post-conflict areas. The exchange of good practices and excellences in different fields of intervention for LRAs is one of the instruments of city-diplomacy. The case of the cooperation set up by EU's and Libyan local authorities is a good example for understanding the potential help coming from sub-national level in particular when the formal diplomacy hampers national or international cooperation to properly act. Through the networking with Libyan mayors set up by the EU's Committee of the Regions - the institution representing regional actors and mayors within the EU – Libyan mayors cooperate internally and with new partners in Europe.

Published in	Advances in Sciences and Humanities (Volume 3, Issue 4)
DOI	10.11648/j.ash.20170304.11
Page(s)	31-34
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Local and Regional Authorities, City Diplomacy, Libya, Territorial Cooperation

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[3]	UNDP, Rapid diagnostic of the situation of local governance and local development in Libya, November 2015.
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[6]	CoR opinion (Coter VI/023 - 2017) on "People-to-people and small scaled projects in cross-border cooperation programs".
[7]	CoR opinion (Relex IV-016 – 2009) on "City Diplomacy".

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Filippo Terruso. (2017). Libya: When Cities Contribute to Building the Foundations for Stability and Growth, in Partnership with European Local and Regional Authorities. Advances in Sciences and Humanities, 3(4), 31-34. https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ash.20170304.11

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Filippo Terruso. Libya: When Cities Contribute to Building the Foundations for Stability and Growth, in Partnership with European Local and Regional Authorities. Adv. Sci. Humanit. 2017, 3(4), 31-34. doi: 10.11648/j.ash.20170304.11

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Filippo Terruso. Libya: When Cities Contribute to Building the Foundations for Stability and Growth, in Partnership with European Local and Regional Authorities. Adv Sci Humanit. 2017;3(4):31-34. doi: 10.11648/j.ash.20170304.11

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