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  title info:
    title: Liberia
    sub title: a Fragile Peace
  name:
    name part: Ross, Steven
    role:
      role term: film director.
  name:
    name part: Kanopy (Firm)
  type of resource: moving image
  genre: videorecording
  genre: Internet videos.
  genre: Nonfiction films.
  genre: Documentary films.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 60 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
  abstract: A chronicle of the period from the departure of Charles Taylor to the election of Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, the first African woman head of state, that presents the difficulties of rehabilitating a nation destroyed by war. Liberia: A Fragile Peace is a perfect follow-up to Liberia: An Uncivil War, picking up the Liberian saga in October 2003, with the departure of the despotic Charles Taylor, the arrival of interim President Gyude Bryant and the deployment of a U.N. peacekeeping force. More than a historical record, however, this film is an ideal case study in how difficult it is to rebuild a society once it has lapsed into anarchy, a condition afflicting more and more nations around the world. The success or failure of the Liberian experience could have long-lasting impact on peace-keeping missions in the future. Perhaps it was only when Liberians began to deposit their corpses around the gates of the U.S. embassy that Americans were finally shamed into working behind the scenes with ECOWAS and the UN to broker a peace initiative for the country they had founded in 1845. The accords had four major points. First, Taylor would leave Liberia. Second, the UN would deploy a 15,000 strong peace keeping force, the largest UN peace keeping force in the world. Third, this force would oversee the fragile peace and implement a demobilization program for the former combatants on all sides. The rubric for this program was: disarm, demobilize, rehabilitate, reintegrate. It is proving an immense task for the government to provide psychological services, vocational education and job placement for young 'soldiers' who know nothing but 14 years of civil war and have no skills but looting. The young former militiamen remain a volatile element, difficult to reintegrate into the new society. Finally the peace initiative called for the formation of a provisional government comprised of recent mortal enemies. This interim government has proven almost as kleptocratic as the former regimes; w…
  note: Title from title frames.
  note: Originally produced by California Newsreel in 2006.
  note: Mode of access: World Wide Web.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-fr---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Johnson-Sirleaf, Ellen
      name part: 1938-
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Taylor, Charles Ghankay
  subject:
    topic: Civil war
    topic: History
    temporal: 1999-2003
    geographic: Africa
    geographic: Liberia
  subject:
    topic: Political science
    topic: History
    temporal: 1980-
    geographic: Africa
    geographic: Liberia
  identifier: 1139695 Kanopy
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: UtOrBLW
    record creation date: 150409
    record change date: 20260324165330.1
    record identifier: in00003586354
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng