Documenting the resilience of Liberians in the face of threats to peace and the 2014 Ebola Crisis

The Platform for Dialogue and Peace (P4DP), in partnership with Interpeace, has produced an extensive report which documents the ways in which individuals, families, communities, institutions as well as the government, are coping with, adapting to, or in some instances even transforming the challenges to peace into creative and innovative opportunities. In order to do [...]

FAR Country Note Liberia

Type: PDF Size: 4Mb Published: November 17, 2015

This study reviews the most pressing challenges to peace in Liberia today and documents the ways in which individuals, families, communities, institutions as well as the government, are coping with, adapting to, or in some instances even transforming these challenges into creative and innovative opportunities.

Recognizing the resilience of Liberians

-The Platform for Dialogue and Peace (P4DP) held a Validation Forum to discuss how the existing strengths in Liberian society can contribute to peacebuilding programmes and policies- “When you have a society that has the conditions to create the vision, then you can move forward in the face of the threats.” Recently, the Platform for [...]

Liberians demonstrate resilience in the face of threats to peace

On 29 April, the Platform for Dialogue and Peace (P4DP), our partner in Liberia, will convene a one day validation workshop to present the findings of its nationwide research. This research has explored the capacities and strategies for resilience that Liberians possess to overcome and prevent conflict. The work in Liberia is part of the [...]

Liberia

Interpeace started working in Liberia in 2008 in a programme jointly implemented with the United Nations. Following an initial pilot project in Nimba County, the programme was rolled out across the entire country. Interpeace’s local project team, the Platform for Dialogue and Peace (P4DP), conducted nationwide consultations in which communities identified obstacles to peace. Overall, [...]

Challenges to the consolidation of peace in the eyes of the communities

Type: PDF Size: 3Mb Published: October 4, 2010

This report presents the findings of the consultation phase conducted by the Platform for Dialogue and Peace (P4DP) in Liberia. The report integrates the results of the consultations and provides a thorough presentation of the sources of conflict as they were identified by the local population. The consultations were carried out by research teams that [...]

Interpeace’s Platform 4 Dialogue and Peace goes national in Liberia

Joint Programme Unit for UN/ Interpeace Initiatives (JPU) expands across Liberia while Nimba County programme continues. After the success of the pilot reconciliation project in Nimba County last year, the Liberian Ministry of Internal Affairs was eager to see the same Interpeace approach applied on a wider scale. The national roll out of the programme [...]

2008 Interpeace Partners Forum: Peacebuilding and statebuilding

Type: PDF Size: 184Kb Published: November 12, 2008

The purpose of the 2008 Interpeace Partners Forum was to provide a space for reflection on the questions and challenges related to the nexus between peacebuilding and statebuilding. About 35 people from different sectors, including governments, UN, EU and NGOs came together at the Partners Forum. This document summarises the discussion that was stimulated by [...]

Evaluation of the Interpeace project in Nimba County

Type: PDF Size: 160Kb Published: September 30, 2008 Author: Gwendolyn Taylor

This document presents the results of an external evaluation of the Interpeace project in Nimba County, Liberia. The evaluation was conducted between 4 September and 20 September 2008 and consolidates the perspectives of 44 informed individuals.

Liberians want continuation of peacebuilding project in Nimba County

During the County Conference on 21 August 2008, in which the results of Interpeace’s project on inter-ethnic reconciliation in Nimba County were presented to the national authorities, the citizens of Nimba County in Liberia expressed their great satisfaction with Interpeace’s work. The citizens of Nimba County in Liberia have expressed their great satisfaction with Interpeace’s [...]

Liberia: Launch of ethnic reconciliation in Nimba County to support government of Liberia and the UN

From 1989 to 2003, Liberia experienced recurring violent civil conflict on a grand scale. Nimba County, located in the North Eastern region of the country, served throughout this period as a locus for the collaboration and mobilization of rebel groups. Today, tensions in Nimba County between three of the ethnic groups most embroiled in Liberia’s [...]