Liberia

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Livestreaming

West Africa now

DIIS Auditorium

This seminar sheds light on the myriad challenges shaping West Africa and discusses the recent political upheavals, the growing influence of Russia, and the complex web of migration patterns intersecting the region and beyond
Photo/illustration by Cover photo by Chinedum “Maxzy” Iregbu

Webinar

Women on the move - new insights on women as migrants, refugees, and trafficked

Online via Zoom

In the past years we have seen images of West African women en route to Europe crossing the Mediterranean and currently newspapers and media are brimming with images of Ukrainian women.
Photo/illustration by Pexels. Jens Mahnke. copyright license

Book Chapter

2017

Idle youth and infrastructure reconstruction in post-conflict Liberia

Youth employment as trope of state recovery
DIIS Policy Brief

2016

Aligning the aims of reintegration and the best means to achieve them

Theories of change in demobilization and reintegration programs
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Book

2015

We need to rethink ‘disarmament, demobilization and reintegration’

The proliferation of armed groups challenges old concept
Journal Article

2012

Disarmament and Reintegration Programmes for Ex-combatants: Are they Fit for Purpose?

New article from Jairo Munive in Journal of Conflict, Security & Development
Book Chapter

2012

Statebuilding and State-Formation

New book on the political sociology of intervention
DIIS Working Paper

2010

Liberia: reintegration of ex-combatants and refugees endangers fragile peace

Video and analysis on land, conflict and security
DIIS Working Paper

2007

Democratic governance in post-conflict Liberia

- An interview with Dr. Amos Sawyer

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Book Chapter

2017

Roads as Imaginary for Employing Idle Youth in the Post-Conflict Liberian State

Jairo Munive

Politics and Policies in Upper Guinea Coast Societies. US: Palgrave Macmillan

Read publication (external link)
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Book

2015

Rethinking DDR and Violence Reduction Interventions

Special Collection in online journal Stability

Jairo Munive & Finn Stepputat

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Journal Article

2014

The ex-combatant ID card

peacebuilding and bureaucratic identity in Liberia

Jairo Munive

Peacebuilding, 2

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Journal Article

2012

Revisiting DDR in Liberia

exploring the power, agency and interests of local and international actors in the 'making' and 'unmaking' of combatants

Jairo Munive & Stine Finne Jakobsen

Conflict, Security and Development , 12

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Book Chapter

2012

Statebuilding as tacit trusteeship

the case of Liberia

Louise Riis Andersen

Statebuilding and State-Formatio. Abingdon: Routledge
Journal Article

2011

A political economic history of the Liberian State, forced labour and armed mobilization

Jairo Munive

Journal of Agrarian Change, 11

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DIIS Working Paper

2010

Ex-combatants, returnees, land and conflict in Liberia

Jairo Munive

Download (pdf, 1.4 MB)
Journal Article

2010

Outsiders inside the state

Post-conflict Liberia between trusteeship and partnership

Louise Riis Andersen

Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 4

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Book Chapter

2009

Liberia

Louise Riis Andersen

Annual review of global peace operations 2009. Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers

Download (pdf, 13.9 MB)
Journal Article

2007

Post-conflict security sector reform and the challenge of ownership

the case of Liberia

Louise Riis Andersen

The Liberian Studies Journal, 32

Download (pdf, 6.6 MB)
DIIS Working Paper

2007

Democratic governance in post-conflict Liberia

an interview with Dr. Amos Sawyer

Louise Riis Andersen

Download (pdf, 266.6 KB)

DIIS Policy Brief

2016

Rethinking Theories of Change in DDR Programs

Unpopular capital interventions deserve a chance

Jairo Munive

Download (pdf, 1.6 MB)
DIIS Policy Brief

2006

Post-conflict security sector reform and the challenge of ownership

the case of Liberia

Louise Riis Andersen

Download (pdf, 80.3 KB)

Photo/illustration by Joerg Boethling / Alamy Stock Photo

Livestreaming

West Africa now

DIIS Auditorium

This seminar sheds light on the myriad challenges shaping West Africa and discusses the recent political upheavals, the growing influence of Russia, and the complex web of migration patterns intersecting the region and beyond
Photo/illustration by Cover photo by Chinedum “Maxzy” Iregbu

Webinar

Women on the move - new insights on women as migrants, refugees, and trafficked

Online via Zoom

In the past years we have seen images of West African women en route to Europe crossing the Mediterranean and currently newspapers and media are brimming with images of Ukrainian women.

Liberia

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