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Conflict Resolution Program- Stories From the Field

11 February 2008
Carter Center Partners with Traditional Leader of Liberian Women
Mama Tumeh, leader of the country-wide Traditional Women for Peace — a Carter Center partner—is regarded as the spiritual leader of women throughout Liberia.  Her work is bringing a message of hope and empowerment to women who are survivors of the country's 14-year civil war, many of whom lost their husbands and other family members.  In this Q&A, Mama Tumeh reflects on the "new Liberia."

11 February 2008
Q&A With Liberia's Minister of Justice Philip A.Z. Banks
In this Q&A, Liberia's Minister of Justice Banks talks about strengthening Liberia's rule of law.

11 February 2008
Q&A With Liberia's Solicitor General Taiwan S. Gongloe
In this Q&A, Solicitor General Gongloe talks about his hope for Liberia and its people.

11 February 2008
Q&A With Oscar Dolo, Director of the Modia Drama Club
The Modia Drama Club, based in Gbarnga, Liberia, is a Carter Center partner in the rule of law public education and awareness campaign. Members travel to Liberia's most remote villages by foot, motorcycle, and four-wheel drive, to educate entire communities—often gathered in open-air settings—through skits, music, and interactive dialogue on Liberia's new laws.

29 November 2007
Carter Center Helps Educate Liberians on Laws, Rights
This article was published in the Nov. 26, 2007 edition of the Emory Report.
Although the country's decades of violence are over, Liberia's women continue to face their own private wars: marital rape, domestic abuse, poverty. The Carter Center, at the invitation of Liberia's Ministry of Justice and in partnership with community-based organizations in the West African country, is helping close the violence gap through local education programs and governmental capacity building.

31 August 2007
Dramatic Learning: Acting Troupe Educates Liberians About Legal Rights
In rural Liberia, in a cinder-block schoolhouse packed with men, women, and children from nearby villages, a small group acts out a story. A woman returns home from market to find that her neighbor's daughter is uncharacteristically grumpy and rude. The woman learns that her husband has raped this young girl. She reacts by feeling shamed and asks the girl to keep the secret.