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Africa Humanitarian – Liberia: Local initiatives for Liberian communities as well as news about the recovery of the country’s social fabric. Amnesty International Liberia: Reports outlining investigation of war crimes and abuses. BBC Country Profile – Liberia: An insightful overview of the political, social and economical landscape. Also noteworthy is the extensive timeline feature. Daily [...]
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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 [...]
The Committee for Peace and Development Advocacy (COPDA)
The Committee for Peace and Development Advocacy (COPDA) is an independent local non-governmental organization established in 1997, right after the elections which ushered into power former Liberian president Charles Taylor. COPDA was formed by a group of Liberians who saw the need to advocate for the protection, respect and promotion of the rights of citizens [...]
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 [...]
Conflict Timeline
1820: Freed slaves are repatriated from the United States and settle in Liberia. 1847: Liberia becomes a Republic. 1951: The right to vote is extended to women and some property-owning indigenous people. 1971: President William Tubman dies and is succeeded by vice president William Tolbert. 1980: Sergeant Samuel K. Doe, a member of the indigenous Krahn group, [...]
Conflict Profile
Founded by free-born and former black slaves from America and the Caribbean, Liberia was the first ex-colony in Africa to gain independence, becoming a republic based on the US model in 1847. For much of it’s early history, Liberia was dominated by Amerio-Liberians – descendents of the original colonists – despite comprising of only around 5% [...]
Liberia
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 [...]
