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Post conflict land disputes in Liberia The Danish Institute for International Studies posts a video and report on land disputes in Liberia. Now the conflict is over, refugees are returning to their homes, only to find ex-combatants have started to build in a new life on the land the refugees fled. How Liberia deals with [...]
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West Africa Network for Peacebuilding – Liberia (WANEP-Liberia)
The West Africa Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP) began in 1998 as a response to the decade long civil war in Liberia. WANEP works with grassroots organisations doing peacebuilding work. As an umbrella organisation, WANEP exists to empower local people working on human rights and peacebuilding projects by creating links between community organisations around Liberia and [...]
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. Peacebuilding in Liberia came to wide public attention with [...]
Peacebuilding Organisations
Below are listed peacebuilding and conflict resolution organisations active in Liberia. Just click on a group’s name for further information on their work. This section of Insight on Conflict has launched recently (January 2010), and we are currently in the process of expanding the number of organisations we feature in Liberia – please check back [...]
Women of Liberia Peace Network (WOLPNET)
The Women of Liberia Peace Network (WOLPNET) was founded in June 2003 in Accra, Ghana, during peace talks on the conflict in Liberia. At that time Liberia faced a grim future as the various warring factions adopted belligerent positions that threatened further fighting. The Liberian refugee women in the Buduburam camp, near Accra, having suffering [...]
Key People and Parties
Samuel Doe: Former Dictator of Liberia. Doe came to power in 1980 after leading a military coup staged by members of the Krahn ethnic group. Thus becoming the first Liberian Head of State not descended from colonists. Successive coup attempts prompted violent reprisals against the rival Gio and Mano tribes, laying the ground from the [...]
