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This week on Babel,\xa0Jon Alterman talks\xa0with Stephanie Williams, formerly the acting special representative of the UN Secretary-General and the head of the UN Support Mission in Libya. They talk about why the conflict in Libya has lasted this long, the importance of facilitating a Libyan-Libyan resolution to the conflict, and her role as a mediator in the process.\xa0Then,\xa0Natasha Hall, Will Todman, and Jon discuss their own experiences with mediation elsewhere in the region.\n\nNYTimes Editorial Board, "Can Libya Put Itself Back Together Again?" NYTimes, March 8, 2021.\n\nStephanie Turco Williams and Jeffrey Feltman, "Can a political breakthrough mend a broken Libya?" Brookings, February 17, 2021.\n\nBrookings Event, "Nonstate armed actors and the US Global Fragility Strategy," Brookings, February 18, 2021.\n\nEpisode Transcript, "UN Mediation in Libya," CSIS, March 9, 2021.