The Gulf Cultural Club held an event entitled "Libya: Will Failure Lead to Partition?" with speakers including Libya-Analysis.com President Jason Pack, Dr. Guma El-Gamaty of Libya's Al-Taghyeer Party, and Libyan British Business Council Chairman Rt. Hon. Lord Trefgarne. The Tripoli Post published a summary of the event here.The speakers recognized the current difficulties that Libya faces, but none of the agreed with the question in the event title that failure would lead to partition.As reported from the event in the Tripoli Post:
Jason Pack the author of The 2011 Libyan uprisings and the struggle for the post Gaddafi future said that as a result of the uprisings, Libya has shifted from a decentralised dictatorship back to its more traditional power structure - a weak centre having difficulty making inroads with a rebellious and disunited periphery which does not recognise its claim to be the sole legitimate sovereign.