Monday, 22 December 2008

Back from the Bush to the Bush

some highlights from Liberia west africa where I was involved in organising a peace festival in the capital Monrovia before spending a week in the bush gathering personal testimonies from conflict survivors, women and peacebuilders

More detail on my experiences here

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6 comments:

  1. [...] I first heard about this killing I had just returned from Liberia, West Africa, because of my job. I go to conflict and post-conflist zones like that in Africa a lot. These are [...]

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  4. [...] before this murder I came back from Liberia in west Africa, which is a country that for the last few decades has endured one of the [...]

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