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The affair of the LSE Libya Links refers to the various connections that existed between the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and the Libyan government and its leader Muammar Gaddafi and his son Saif al-Islam Gaddafi. The NGO Gaddafi Foundation pledged to donate £1.5 million over five years to a research centre, LSE Global Governance, of which £300k were paid. In addition, LSE Enterprise established a contract worth £2.2 million to train Libyan officials. In 2008, the LSE granted a PhD degree〔(LSE.ac.uk )〕 to Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of the Libyan leader, for a dissertation. Currently, allegations circulate that Gaddafi's thesis was ghost-written and/or plagiarised. In December 2010, Muammar Gaddafi addressed members of the School in a video link-up where he was addressed as "Brother Leader" and received an LSE cap previously given to Nelson Mandela. In connection with the civil uprising in Libya in February and March 2011, the links between LSE and the Gaddafi regime, and the conduct of individual members of LSE's staff, came increasingly to be questioned.〔See, for example, ; ''Wall Street Journal,'' "(Institutions Scramble to Check on Libya Ties )," 6 March 2011.〕 As a result of the revelations, the LSE's Director, Sir Howard Davies, resigned on 3 March 2011, citing "errors of judgement". In a ''New York Times'' op-ed piece on 7 March 2011, Roger Cohen wrote, in reference to events that had transpired at the School, "It may be possible to sink to greater depths but right now I can't think how. ...The Arab Spring is also a Western Winter. ...How did we back, use and encourage the brutality of Arab dictators over so many years? To what degree did that cynical encouragement of despots foster the very jihadist rage Western societies sought to curb?"〔(Libyan Closure )," ''New York Times'', 7 March 2011.〕 ==LSE and the Monitor Group== (詳細はMonitor Group, a Boston-based, Harvard-linked, consultancy firm founded by Harvard Business School professor Mark Fuller, as advisors on matters of public relations.〔Michael Richardson, "Monitor Group Touted for Muammar Khadafy over Torture of Bulgarian Nurses," 11 March 2011.〕 According to leaked documents, Monitor Group received £2 million "in order to enhance international understanding and appreciation of Libya and the contribution it has made and may continue to make to its region and to the world." In addition, "the goal is to introduce Muammar Gaddafi as a thinker and intellectual, independent of his more widely known and very public persona as the Leader of the Revolution in Libya."〔Mother Jones〕 A number of Harvard University academics were active within Monitor. One way to achieve this aim was to recruit prominent journalists and intellectuals who were prepared to travel to Libya and write in positive terms about the country.〔 One prime target was academics associated with the LSE, such as professor Anthony Giddens (Giddens is a Fellow of King's College Cambridge and is an Emeritus professor at LSE ). In 2006 and 2007 the company organized two trips to Libya for Giddens, when the former LSE Director met with Muammar Gaddafi. Giddens has declined to comment on the financial compensation he received on these occasions. Giddens' first visit to Libya resulted in articles in the ''New Statesman'', ''El País'' and ''La Repubblica'', where he argued that Libya had been transformed. In the ''New Statesman'' he wrote: "Gaddafi's 'conversion' may have been driven partly by the wish to escape sanctions, but I get the strong sense it is authentic and there is a lot of motive power behind it. Saif Gaddafi is a driving force behind the rehabilitation and potential modernisation of Libya. Gaddafi Sr, however, is authorising these processes."〔Anthony Giddens, "(The Colonel and His Third Way )," ''New Statesman'', August 28, 2006.〕 During the second visit, Monitor Group organized a panel of "three thinkers" — Giddens, Gaddafi, and Benjamin Barber, Emeritus professor of Rutgers University, author of the book ''Jihad vs. McWorld'' — chaired by the veteran journalist Sir David Frost.〔Mother;s Jones〕 Returning from Libya, Giddens wrote about his "chat with the colonel," in the ''Guardian'', concluding that "If Gadafy is sincere about reform, as I think he is, Libya could end up as the Norway of North Africa."〔Anthony Giddens, "(My Chat with the Colonel )," ''The Guardian'', 9 March 2007.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「London School of Economics Gaddafi links」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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