• Elections and Voting
    Liberia’s Elections: Testing the Peace
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVfeMUapr-A& The Stanley Foundation has produced an excellent ten minute background video in the run up to Liberia’s national elections in October of this year. The vi…
  • Liberia
    A Conversation with Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
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    Please join us as President Johnson Sirleaf discusses Liberia's progress and continuing challenges ahead. With national elections approaching in 2011, she will share her views on Liberia's peace and development and outline her thoughts on Liberia's relationship with the United States.
  • Liberia
    Liberia's Sirleaf: Reform in Africa
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    Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf says her country and region continue to make democratic strides, but she appealed for greater foreign investment to build economic and political capacity.
  • Liberia
    A Conversation With President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
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    Fondly called the “Iron Lady” by her supporters, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has, throughout her 30-year career as a stateswoman, political prisoner, and Liberian national demonstrated her iron will and determination, which has culminated in her historic election to the presidency in December. In recognition of her election as the first female African head of state, this event has been designated the Council's 2005-06 David Rockefeller Lecture. Established to honor Mr. Rockefeller when he retired as Chairman of the Council's Board, the Rockefeller Lectureship is awarded annually to a distinguished African from either the governmental or non-governmental sector. 6:00-6:30 p.m. Dinner 6:30-7:30 p.m. Meeting
  • Elections and Voting
    Liberia’s Presidential Runoff
    This publication is now archived. Who are the candidates in Liberia’s presidential runoff?Liberia, the troubled West African nation founded by freed American slaves in 1820, holds a runoff election f…
  • Liberia
    LIBERIA: Child Soldiers
    This publication is now archived. What can be done to help child soldiers?Most experts agree that without focused intervention aimed at reintegrating them into society, child soldiers--who have witne…
  • Liberia
    LIBERIA: Status Report
    This publication is now archived. What is the current situation in Liberia?Gyude Bryant was sworn in October 14 as chairman of the new transitional government. Bryant replaced interim president Moses…
  • Liberia
    Crocker: ’’Everybody Except Us Understands that Liberia Is an American Responsibility’’
    Chester A. Crocker, a pre-eminent U.S. expert on Africa and a professor of strategic studies at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, says that the “debate raging within the a…
  • Liberia
    Lyman: Liberia Issue Dogged Bush’s Africa Trip
    Princeton N. Lyman, a former U.S. ambassador to Nigeria and to South Africa, says President Bush’s July 8-12 trip to Africa was overshadowed by the issue of Liberia and whether Washington would compl…