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From Revolt to Community-Driven Resistance: Beirut's Year of Hell [1]

IAI Papers [2]

From Revolt to Community-Driven Resistance: Beirut's Year of Hell

[3]
Authors:
Carmen Geha [4]
14/07/2021

In Lebanon a series of man-made disasters were committed by corrupt warlords that sustain their rule through a century-old sectarian power-sharing system. Within months activists, who had staged a nation-wide uprising, had to deal with financial collapse and the covid-19 pandemic, shortly before 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate exploded at Beirut’s port on 4 August 2020. The explosion epitomises Lebanon’s endemic problems and revealed a criminal level of corruption by its governing warlords. But activists and local institutions have since then been challenging the status quo by offering a model of inclusive service provision and advocacy. People who took to the streets are actively engaged in solving the nation’s problems and if the European Union wants to support a new and stable Lebanon, the only way it can do that is by cutting ties with the old and supporting the new.

iaip2130.pdf [3]

Details

  • Details

    Rome, IAI, July 2021, 21 p.
  • In:
    IAI Papers [2]
  • Issue

    21|30
  • ISBN/ISSN/DOI:
    978-88-9368-207-7

Table of contents

Introduction
1. Hell explained: Sectarian warlords and the politics of exclusion
2. From protests to revolution: Three major waves
3. The explosion and its aftermath: Community-driven resistance
Conclusion: A call to action
References

External links

Paper in CeSPI website [5]

Source URL:https://www.iai.it/en/pubblicazioni/c03/revolt-community-driven-resistance-beiruts-year-hell

Links
[1] https://www.iai.it/en/pubblicazioni/c03/revolt-community-driven-resistance-beiruts-year-hell [2] https://www.iai.it/en/pubblicazioni/lista/all/iai-papers [3] https://www.iai.it/sites/default/files/iaip2130.pdf [4] https://www.iai.it/en/persone/carmen-geha [5] https://www.cespi.it/en/node/1853