Partnering for sustainable peace in Liberia

Despite making significant strides, Liberia still has urgent peacebuilding priorities that need to be addressed.

Liberia is going through an important period in its transition, with elections in October 2017 and the final drawdown of the United Nations (UN) peacekeeping mission in March 2018. Despite having made significant strides towards sustainable peace, the country still has a number of urgent peacebuilding priorities that need to be addressed. This policy brief is based on field research carried out in November 2016. It makes targeted, practical recommendations to the UN Peacebuilding Commission on enhancing its support to Liberia, drawing on a wide range of partnerships with other internal and external peacebuilding actors.

About the authors

Amanda Lucey is a senior researcher in the Peace Operations and Peacebuilding Division of the ISS. With nine years of experience in the field, her areas of focus include peacebuilding, South–South cooperation and South African foreign policy. She worked with MONUSCO as a political affairs officer in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and with the UNDP in South Sudan as a rule of law officer. She holds an MPhil in Justice and Transformation from the University of Cape Town.

Liezelle Kumalo is a researcher in the ISS’ Peace Operations and Peacebuilding Division in Pretoria. She has an MA in International Relations from the University of the Witwatersrand.