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home > fellows' stories > spring 2007 > liberia

Holding Out Hope in Liberia

more on Vanessa Gezari

by Vanessa Gezari, Spring 2006 IRP Fellow
Reprinted with permission of the St. Petersburg Times

August 5, 2007

Thousands of former child soldiers tread an uneasy middle ground in Liberia, a country torn between learning from its past or forgetting it in trying to build a future amid utter ruin.

Spring 2007 IRP Fellow Vanessa Gezari

Vanessa Gezari reports from Liberia.
Photo by Kathleen Flynn of the St. Petersburg Times.

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