Liberia  Liberia, meaning “Land of the Free,” was founded by a small group of American slaves in 1847. Since 1980, the country has suffered at the hands of corrupt leaders and brutal regimes. Since the signing of a peace agreement in 2003, Liberians have been working to heal the wounds of 14 years of civil war, which displaced nearly half of the country's three million people, left up to 250,000 dead, and destroyed their country's economy and infrastructure. Elected in 2005 as the country's and continent's first female president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has pledged to transform adversity into opportunity, and to renew the promises upon which Liberia was founded: freedom, equality, unity, and individual progress.
Learn more about Waging member President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and other Liberian members of the Women Waging Peace Network.
Click here to learn about Inclusive Security's December 2006 Liberia Consultation and the February 2007 Liberia Gender Symposium.
Inclusive Security Recommendations
Below are recommendations that participants developed as a result of the February 2007 Liberia Gender Symposium:
Priorities for Reconstruction: Input to the Liberian Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy (IPRS)
Below are recommendations that workshop participants developed as a result of the December 2006 Liberia Consultations:
Women Civil Society Leaders' Recommendations for the Government of Liberia and the International Community
Conflict Background
International Crisis Group
United States Institute of Peace
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