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Showing 1 to 20 of 103 for “"Liberia"”.
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Liberia: Postwar, Not Yet Postcolonial
"Liberia: Postwar, Not Yet Postcolonial" is a project discussing the ways in which, two Liberian presidential candidates (re)construct and perform their sociopolitical identities in order to build constituency in the postwar context. I am mainly concerned here with the ways in which Ellen Johnson …
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Exploring Earth-Building Technology for Liberia.
… of earth building as suitable techniques for Liberia consumption. In addition, the paper investigates the suitability of the Latosols soils of Liberia for earth building construction purposes using standardized earth building principles and requirements. A local Johnson City, Tennessee, earth …
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Post-war peacebuilding for development in Ganta City, Liberia
Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Public Administration – Peace Studies, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2023.
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"The Negro Experiment": Black Modernity and Liberia, 1883-1910
… of "black modernity" in the context of the Liberia at the turn of the twentieth century. Despite Liberia's recognition by the international community as a sovereign nation, Liberia fell subject to the imperial ploys of the European powers in the Scramble for Africa. Americo-Liberians, the …
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Geochemical and Microbial Controls of Groundwater Quality in Northwestern Liberia
… very little information on water resources in Liberia, West Africa. This research leverages major ion and trace element analysis, Escherichia coli (E. coli) field tests, and high-throughput sequencing of microbial 16S rRNA genes to address these gaps and develop a comprehensive snapshot of …
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Women and post-conflict development : a case study on Liberia
Liberia seems an ostensible 'poster child' in light of the call by women's rights advocates to insert women in all aspects of the political, social, and economic transition in post-conflict countries. Liberia has elected the first female African President and women head the strategic government …
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Potentially Traumatic Event Experiences and Health Care Service Use in Liberia
… data on adults from Nimba County, Liberia, I assessed the relation between lifetime PTE experience and formal and informal care service use. Lifetime PTE experience increased both formal and informal care use and most persons who experienced PTEs likely complemented their formal use …
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The role of women in national development in Liberia, 1800-1900
… the role of women in national development in Liberia, 1800-1900. It was during this period that the American Colonization Society(A.C.S.) and its auxiliaries established a colony on the West Coast of Africa for resettlement of African-Americans. About seven thousand women from this group went …
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An analysis of fertility differentials in Liberia and Ghana using multilevel models
… fertility, nuptiality and contraceptive use in Liberia and Ghana, using data from the recent Demographic and Health Surveys in these countries. Of particular interest is the effect of the community in which a woman lives on her current and past fertility, her marital status and her use of …
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Sustaining Peace? Environmental and Natural Resource Governance in Liberia and Sierra Leone
… efforts to shape the governance of forests in Liberia and diamonds and minerals in Sierra Leone. I find that international peacebuilding organizations frame the challenge in both cases as transforming conflict resources into peace resources for the purpose of reducing the propensity for …
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Indigenising post-war state reconstruction. The Case of Liberia and Sierra Leone.
… pejorative term attributed to rural Liberia and Sierra Leone. Both the Poro and Sande exercise spiritual, political, economic and social authority. In this thesis, I use critical realism and the case study approach to investigate: a) the extent to which the liberal peace practitioners …
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Multinational corporations in violent conflict: a case study of firestone in Liberia
The First Liberian Civil War began with an insurgency led by Charles Taylor on Christmas Eve in 1989. At the time, the company Firestone Liberia (one of many of the subsidiaries of the multinational, Bridgestone Corporation) had been operating the world’s largest rubber plantation in Liberia’s …
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Policing and the rule of law in weak states : evidence from Liberia
… through a series of three essays on policing in Liberia. The first reports results from a large-scale, randomized control trial evaluation of the Liberian National Police's "Confidence Patrols" community policing program in rural Liberia.
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A metallurgical study of West African iron monies from Cameroon and Liberia
… four groups in present day Cameroon and one in Liberia. The research corpus of material has dates ranging from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century. My metallurgical studies of West African iron monies are the first such investigations to have been carried out. The results will …
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Experiences of Nurses and Midwives during the Ebola Outbreak in Liberia, West Africa
… nurses and midwives during the Ebola outbreak in Liberia. A grounded theory method based on Corbin and Strauss (2015) and Charmaz (2014) was used, resulting in a conceptual model describing the process involved in the work decisions made by the study participants. A convenience sample of 30 …
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