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245 00 Liberia :|ba Fragile Peace.|h[Kanopy electronic resource] 
264  1 [San Francisco, California, USA] :|bKanopy Streaming,
       |c2015. 
300    1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 60 min.) :
       |bdigital, .flv file, sound 
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500    Title from title frames. 
518    Originally produced by California Newsreel in 2006. 
520    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; when you ask for a document to be 
       signed in Liberia you may still be told that, 'My pen is 
       out of ink,' meaning that a bribe will be needed. Although
       {dollar}500 million of international aid has been promised,
       not much of it has been expended because of this 
       corruption. On a more positive note, a democratic election,
       the first in the nation's history, was held in October 
       2005. In the November runoff between a charismatic young 
       soccer star and Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, a female Harvard 
       trained economist, Johnson-Sirleaf emerged as the first 
       woman to be elected head of an African state. The question
       remains: where in the Liberian political class will 
       administrators be found who will be dedicated to 
       government accountability and transparency? An effort to 
       rebuild this war weary nation is being made. 
       Systematically, with UN involvement, security has been 
       achieved. Hundreds of thousands of refugees are returning 
       to homes without electricity or running water. 85% of the 
       people are unemployed; 70% survive on under 70 cents a 
       day. Liberia demonstrates to the international community 
       that reestablishing an economy and civil society requires 
       a long-term commitment. But for a people who have known 
       only death and devastation for too long, two things exist 
       on the ground today which have not been there for many 
       years: peace and hope. "The documentary powerfully 
       captures the crisis mode of Liberia as it struggles to 
       transition from a long and brutal civil war toward a 
       sustainable peace. The real task of reconstruction and 
       reform now begins." - Elwood Dunn, Sewanee: the University
       of the South "This is just the right film at exactly the 
       right time, as Liberia finally begins to turn the corner 
       on a quarter century of violence and tragedy." - Nancee 
       Oku Bright, Producer/Director Liberia: America's 
       Stepchild. 
538    Mode of access: World Wide Web. 
600 10 Johnson-Sirleaf, Ellen,|d1938-. 
600 10 Taylor, Charles Ghankay, 
650  0 Civil War|vHistory|y1999-2003|zAfrica|zLiberia. 
650  0 Politics and government|vHistory|y1980-|zAfrica|zLiberia. 
655  7 Documentary films.|2lcgft 
700 1  Ross, Steven|efilm director. 
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