A new constitution. The election of parliament. And a head of state. The peaceful transition of power. Now, Tunisia is focused on designing and rebuilding government at the state and local levels, and it is evaluating its progress and looking around the world for models of local democracy.

But threats to democracy remain. On March 18, Tunis was the site of a terrorist attack at the country’s national museum that killed more than 20 people. The Islamic State and other Islamist groups have issued threats against the country. And the economy and disparate regions of the country hold their own challenges.

In advance of a major global conference on participatory and direct democracy in Tunisia, we posed a question to Tunisians and scholars of the country: Besides security, what is the most important thing Tunisia must do to complete its transition to democracy successfully?

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