Most significant positive evidence
Improvements in literacy, health, infrastructure and some redistribution of oil wealth receive credit.
Person
Muammar Gaddafi
The assessment covers Four decades of personal dictatorship, political repression, external violence and alleged crimes against humanity during the 2011 uprising dominate the record.
This is a contemporary assessment current to 26 June 2026. It must be revised as later conduct and evidence become available.
Ethical assessment categories
Current published result
Overall ethical score
-84.58
Reasoned summary
Improvements in literacy, health, infrastructure and some redistribution of oil wealth receive credit. However, Four decades of personal dictatorship, political repression, external violence and alleged crimes against humanity during the 2011 uprising dominate the record.
This assessment presents six separate ethical dimensions rather than one overall moral score. Each result must be read with its evidence, plausible range, confidence, disputes, exclusions, severe-harm findings and sources.
Most significant negative evidence
Four decades of personal dictatorship, political repression, external violence and alleged crimes against humanity during the 2011 uprising dominate the record.
Read the full Muammar Gaddafi ethical assessment, evidence and sources
Six-dimensional ethical profile
The overall figure is the equal-weight average of the applicable dimensions. It does not replace the separate scores, evidence or uncertainty.
- Personal moral conduct
- -82.00
- Rights and dignity
- -86.50
- Nonviolence and harm
- -90.00
- Stewardship of power
- -88.00
- Wisdom and truthfulness
- -82.00
- Consequential legacy
- -79.00
- Severe-harm record
- No separate finding recorded
Assessment history
Ethical assessment: Muammar Gaddafi (1969–2011)
1969–2011 · Published assessment · reviewed June 26, 2026
Result: Six-dimensional ethical profile