Liberia

An Incomplete Justice

Peter Pham — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 09:37:05 -0500

The verdict delivered Thursday against Charles G. Taylor for crimes against humanity ends a saga that began on Christmas Eve 1989, when Mr. Taylor and a group of Libyan-trained followers invaded Liberia, igniting a regional conflagration that eventually engulfed parts of Sierra Leone, Guinea and Ivory Coast.

J. Peter Pham Writes New York Times Op-Ed on War Crimes Verdict

Adrienne Chuck — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 09:14:20 -0500

In “An Incomplete Justice,” an op-ed published in today’s New York Times, J. Peter Pham, director of the Atlantic Council’s Michael S. Ansari Africa Center, discusses former Liberian president Charles Taylor’s war crimes conviction by a UN-created tribunal at The Hague.

More than Liberia's Fragile Democracy at Risk

Peter Pham — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 08:57:54 -0600

No country in Africa is linked as closely to the United States as Liberia, a state that traces its origins to a philanthropic enterprise initiated by a group of prominent Americans authorized by a Congressional charter to establish a “land of liberty” for manumitted African American slaves as well as victims of the banned transatlantic slave trade “recaptured” from vessels intercepted by the U.S. Navy.