The challenge today is not only to rebuild but also to establish accountability for the disaster and ensure better governance in the future.
- Miriam Aitken
- ICG
The glass carpeting the streets of central Beirut on 4 August 2020 was not the only thing the port blast shattered.
It decimated livelihoods, tore the city’s social fabric and broke whatever tenuous trust people still had in the political elite.
One year later, the broken glass has been swept off Beirut’s streets, but little else has been fixed.
The country faces an…