Liberia

Commentary Women, War and Peace

With three women winning this year’s Nobel Peace prize, now is an apt time for PBS’s new series, Women, War and Peace initiative, especially as the central character of one of the films is Leymah Gbowee, one of the Nobel Prize winners. Read more >>>

From the field New Strategies for Peace ahead of Elections in Liberia

The Catholic Justice and Peace Commission (JPC) say it has began the process of designing new strategies ahead of upcoming General and Presidential elections in Liberia, due to take place in October 2011. Although the elections are still more than a year away, the JPC believes in the need to start their planning well in advance. The strategies of the JPC include massive voter and civic education, monitoring of the electoral campaigns and ensuring that the elections are free and fair. Read more >>>

Liberia section added

We’ve today added Liberia to the regions covered on Insight on Conflict. Liberia is still recovering from a brutal Civil War that lasted over a decade, ending in 2003, and over the coming months we will be adding information on the many active peacebuilding organisations there. Read more >>>