Lessons Learned from 25 Years of Resistance and Remembrance
Civic Spaces are Neccessary Spaces
Keeping Memory on the Map in Liberia: Sustaining Survivors After the Spotlight Fades Between 1989 and 2003, the civil war in Liberia resulted in an estimated 150,000-250,000 deaths, or roughly ten percent of the population, and the displacement of over half the country’s citizens. The 2003 Comprehensive Peace Agreement called for the creation of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) to examine the root causes of the war, assess the human rights violations that occurred and make recommendations to support and rehabilitate victims. Over the course of three years, the TRC collected close to 20,000 victim and witness statements, identified nearly 200 mass graves and issued a final report in 2009 that called for the establishment of an Extraordinary Criminal Court for Liberia with the power to prosecute alleged perpetrators.
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Marcus P. Quoigoah, a massacre survivor, shares his experience during the St. Peter’s Lutheran Church Massacre, at an ICSC needs assessment in July 2024.
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