Other resources

Liberian news sources

All about Liberia http://www.allaboutliberia.com/news.htm

Liberia Orbit http://www.liberiaorbit.org/

New Democrat http://www.newdemocrat.org/

The Perspective http://www.theperspective.org/

Liberia Post http://www.liberianews.com/

allAfrica.com News http://allafrica.com/liberia/

Relief Web http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/vLCE/West+Africa?OpenDocument&StartKey=West+Africa&ExpandView

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Links to other Liberia Websites

http://www.theperspective.org/websites.html

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Liberian organisations

Liberians United For Reconciliation And Democracy (LURD) http://www.copla.org/aboutlurd.htm

Republic of Liberia Contemporees United Patriotic & Strong http://www.republicofliberia.com/

Measuagoon http://www.measuagoon.freeserve.co.uk/

Liberian Immigrant Community Leadership Initiative http://www.lsmnj.org/ProgServ/ComOutrServ/ImmigRef/RefGiftGiv/Liberiancomm/body_liberiancomm.html

Friends of Liberia http://www.fol.org/

Embassy of the Republic of Liberia, Washington DC http://www.liberiaemb.org/

Ministry of Information, Republic of Liberia http://www.micat.gov.lr/

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Other documents on the Web

Annotated Guide to Internet Resources on Liberia http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/liberia.html

INCORE guide to internet sources on conflict in Liberia http://www.incore.ulst.ac.uk/cds/countries/liberia.html

Law Library of Congress Country Studies http://www.loc.gov/law/guide/liberia.html

Constitution of the Commonwealth of Liberia, 1839 http://www.toptags.com/aama/docs/libcon.htm

UNHCR Country of Origin Legal Information http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/rsd

Kamara, T. (2003) 'Liberia: Civil War and Regional Conflict' WRITENET Country Paper No. 17 http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/rsd?search=coi&source=WRITENET

Carver, R. (1994) 'Liberia: What Hope for Peace?' WRITENET Country Papers http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/rsd?search=coi&source=WRITENET

Kamara, T. (1999) 'Liberia: Can Peace Be Consolidated?' WRITENET Paper No.13 http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/rsd?search=coi&source=WRITENET

Crisp, J. (2001) 'The WHALE: Wisdom We Have Acquired from the Liberia Experience' EPAU Evaluation Report, UNHCR http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/home/opendoc.pdf?tbl=RESEARCH&id=3b30a9ee4&page=research

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Non-electronic resources and bibliography

• Aning, E. (1999) 'Eliciting Compliance from Warlords: The ECOWAS Experience in Liberia, 1990-1997', Review of African Political Economy, 81:335-348.

• Aning, E. (1996) 'Ghana, ECOWAS and the Liberian Crisis: An Analysis of Ghana's Role in Liberia', Liberian Studies Journal, 21(2):259-299.

• Berkeley, B. (2001) 'The Rebel' and 'The Assistant Secretary' in The Graves Are Not Yet Full: Race, Tribe and Power in the Heart of Africa, New York: Basic Books.

• Boley, G. (1983) Liberia: The Rise and Fall of the First Republic, MacMillan, USA.

• Clapham, C. (1982) 'The Politics of Failure: Clientelism, Political Instability and National Integration in Liberian and Sierra Leone', in Clapham, C. (ed.) Private Patronage and Public Power: Political Clientelism in the Modern State, London, Frances Printer.

• Dick, S. and Boer, W. (2001) 'The Spirits are Angry: Liberia's Secret Cults in the Service of Civil War', Books and Culture, 7(1):26-27.

• Ellis, S. (1995) 'Liberia 1989-1994, A Study of Ethnic and Spiritual Violence', African Affairs, 94:165-197.

• Ellis, S. (1999) The Mask of Anarchy: The Destruction of Liberia and the Religious Dimension of an African Civil War, London, Hurst and Company.

• Gifford, P. (1993) Christianity and Politics in Doe's Liberia, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

• Harris, D. (1999) 'From "Warlord" to "Democratic" President: How Charles Taylor Won the 1997 Liberian Elections' The Journal of Modern African Studies, 37(3):431-455.

• Horton, S. (1994) Liberia's Underdevelopment In Spite of the Struggle: A Personal Analysis of the Underlying Reasons for Liberia's Underdevelopment, London, University Press of America.

• Huband, M. (1998) The Liberian Civil War, London, Frank Class.

• Kaplan, R. (1994) 'The Coming Anarchy', The Atlantic Monthly.

• Liebenow, J. G. (1969) Liberia: The Evolution of Privilege, New York, Cornell University Press.

• Outram, Q. (1997) ' "It's Terminal Either Way": An Analysis of Armed Conflict in Liberia, 1989-1996', Review of African Political Economy, 73:355-371.

• Reno, W. (1996) 'The Business of War in Liberia', Current History, 95:211-215.

• Reno, W. (1995) 'Reinvention of African Patrimonial State: Charles Taylor's Liberia', Third World Quarterly, 16(1):109-120.

• Richards, P. (1996) Fighting for the Rain Forest: War, Youth and Resources in Sierra Leone, London, Villiers Publishing.

• Sanneh, L. (1999) 'American Colonisation and the Founding of Liberia', Abolitionists Abroad: American Blacks and the Making of Modern West Africa, Harvard, Harvard University Press.

• Sawyer, A. (1992) The Emergence of Autocracy in Liberia: Tragedy and Challenge, California, Institute of Contemporary Studies Press.

• Scott, C. (1998) 'Liberia: A Nation Displaced,' in Cohen, R. and Deng, F. (eds) The Forsaken People: Case Studies of the Internally Displaced, Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution.

• Sesay, M. (1996a) 'Civil War and Collective Intervention in Liberia', Review of African Political Economy, 67:35-52.

• Sesay, M. (1996b) 'Politics and Society in Post-War Liberia', The Journal of Modern African Studies, 34(3):395-420.

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