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Liberia

Fafo's research on Liberia focuses on living conditions, land rights, the background for the civil war and the situation of young people who participated in it, and effects of international intervention.

Projects

Peacekeeping, Poverty, and Development: Towards an Understanding of the Gendered Peacekeeping Economies in the DRC, Sudan, and Liberia

Poverty and marginalization in West and Central Africa: Autochthony and land rights

Working Conditions in Rubberplantations in Liberia

Articles

Morten Bøås with Karianne Stig (2010) "Security Sector Reform in Liberia: An Uneven Partnership without Local Ownership" in Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, Vol 4, issue 3

Morten Bøås (2009) "Making plans for Liberia – a trusteeship approach or good governance?" i Third World Quarterly, 2009, 30 (7): 1329-1341

Morten Bøås (2009) "New" Nationalism and Autochthony – Tales of Origin as Political Cleavage. Africa Spectrum 1/2009: 19-38

Morten Bøås (2008) Funérailles pour un ami: des luttes de citoyenneté dans la guerre civile libérienne. Politique africaine No 112 decembre 2008

Bøås M and Hatløy (2008) . ‘Getting in, getting out’: militia membership and prospects for reintegration in post-war Liberia. Journal of Modern African Studies, 46 (1): 33-55.

Reports

Morten Bøås and Ingunn Bjørkhaug (2010)
DDRed in Liberia:
Youth Remarginalisation or Reintegration?
MICROCON Research Working Paper 28

Kathleen M. Jennings (2008)
Seeing DDR from Below
Challenges and dilemmas raised by the experiences of ex-combatants in Liberia

Kathleen M. Jennings (2008)
Protecting whom?
Approaches to sexual exploitation and abuse in UN peacekeeping operations

Morten Bøås and Anne Hatløy (2006)
After the ‘Storm’
Economic activities among returning youths. The case of Voinjama

Fafo-report 456 (2004)
Policy or Process?
The Politics of International Peace Implementation

Researchers