Liberia.
6 Peacebuilding organisations
Inter-Religious Council of Liberia (IRCL)The IRCL is a joint effort of the Liberian Council of Churches and the Liberian Muslim Council to prevent, manage and resolve conflicts in Liberia. The IRCL was instrumental in formulating the framework for the ECOWAS Peace Plan. Pan African Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution (PAC)
PAC promote peace education, community development, capacity building, training programmes, trauma counselling, human rights issues and volunteering in Liberia. The Committee for Peace and Development Advocacy (COPDA)
The goal of COPDA is to promote peaceful co-existence in Liberia through mediation and the resolution of community conflict. West Africa Network for Peacebuilding - Liberia (WANEP-Liberia)
WANEP began in 1998 as a response to the decade-long civil war in Liberia. WANEP works with grassroots organisations doing peacebuilding work. Women of Liberia Peace Network (WOLPNET)
WOLPNET seeks peaceful co-existence, to increase women and children's economic, and political empowerment, and to promote women's rights in Liberia
6 Peacebuilding organisations
Liberia was Africa’s first Republic and is currently ruled by the continent’s first female president; sadly however it is now probably best known for a long-running and brutal conflict that ran for most of the period 1989-2003 (this is sometimes broken into two Civil Wars, 1989-96 and 1999-2003). The role of diamonds in fuelling the fighting brought the conflict to wider international attention.
Although the conflict officially ended in 2003, the recovery from a conflict that brought the state to verge of collapse will be long, even in a best-case scenario. Though a relatively small country (the population is below 4 million), the reach and resources of the government remain severely constrained and local civil society groups play a key role in rebuilding Liberia.
From the blog
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 >>>
