My Dear comrade, I congratulate you on this day which many of you will soon discover to be one of the greatest moments in your professional lives. I know from experience, that many of you are nervous at this particularly moment with some of you still asking yourselves: WHERE AM I? WHAT HAS JUST HAPPENED [...]
As I return home to embark upon my peace initiative in Liberia, I would like to extend my deepest gratitude to my iLEAP family for their continued support and collaboration. I am thanking them because three years ago, I found myself in a serious situation where I needed a group to help me overcome a [...]
Few days ago, I accompanied three of iLEAP’s 2010 international fellows to do a presentation about food security at the University of Washington. One key question that the moderator asked me was how is food security related to the peace and reconciliation works that I do at the Population Caring Organization? I think this question [...]
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I am honored to be a part of this year’s fellowship program as a faculty-in-residence. The new fellows are great and I believe that together we’re going to have wonderful time together. Please keep this site opened!!!
The first inter tribal peace and reconciliation forum of the Monrovia Pre-summit project was held on Saturday June 19, 2010 in Monrovia. The one day eight hour forum which is a pilot phase activity of the Liberia Peacebuilder Initiative, brought together one hundred and twenty five (125) tribal people including tribal governors, chiefs, traditional and [...]
We are pleased to welcome Sweet Afrika to the PCO family! Sweet Afrika, a corn husk artist, has announced his decision to join the PCO refugee mothers’ vocational skills training center in the Buduburam Refugee Camp, in Ghana. Sweet Afrika, a 64-year old Liberian refugee, is the only person that I know in Ghana and [...]
Words are in adequate to express how grateful I am to iLEAP for my participation in the international fellowship program. Indeed, if I will forget any lesson I’ve ever learned, it will not be iLEAP reflective practice that Dr. Britt Yamamoto taught us. The use of Reflective Practice techniques has made me a critical thinker [...]
According to THE ANALYST NEWS jUNE 25, 2009 (http://allafrica.com/stories/200906260826.html) Two tribes in Grand Kru County, for the past weeks, have been locked up in an intense battle over the control of a disputed land. Reports from the conflict zone speak of injuries on both sides.The people of NIfa or Po-River and Patey are both claiming a [...]
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For almost 14 years, the people of Liberia suffered a bloody civil war which destroyed more than 250,000 precious lives, mostly innocent and helpless civilians. The entire social and economic fabrics of the country were destroyed. The war also targeted and destroyed relationships, cultural and social norms that rooted the Liberian peace, and thousands of [...]
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I am honored and blessed to have met Ambassador John W. McDonald, one of America finest diplomats. Ambassador McDonald is a former US ambassador to the United Nations. He was one of the key personalities who mediated the Liberian peace deal with the various warlords in Liberia during the country’s bloody civil crisis. The [...]
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