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Sarah Douglas is a Policy Specialist in UN Women's Peace and Security section, specializing in gender-responsive security sector reform and peacebuilding. Prior to joining UN Women, Sarah spent four years in Sudan with the UN Mission in Sudan and the UN Development Programme. Her work focused on ensuring women's participation in a range of programs including disarmament, demobilization and reintegration, and community security and arms control. Sarah also worked in UNIFEM's Peace and Security section in New York from 2003 to 2006. She holds a Master of Science degree in Gender and Development from the London School of Economics and a Bachelor's degree in Women's Studies from the University of Michigan.
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1 In the early nineteenth century, American abolitionists began setting up colonies for freed slaves in Liberia. From independence in 1847 until 1980, Liberia was ruled by “Americo-Liberians,” who suppressed and marginalized the indigenous population. The United States government repeatedly sent naval assets to Liberia during these years to help the Americo-Liberians put down indigenous insurgencies. Tensions between Americo-Liberians and indigenous tribes were major causes of conflict during Liberia's bloody civil wars in the twentieth century.
2 Civil society allegations against Firestone of indentured servitude, exploitation of child labor, cooperation with warlords, not to mention pollution, have circulated for nearly a century, although the situation has improved greatly since the end of the war in 2003 (see International Labour Rights Forum Citationn.d.).
3 UN Women supports the Peace Huts in partnership with the Ministry of Gender and Development and Liberian NGOs, with the support of the UK Department for International Development, Australian Agency for Development and the Swedish International Development Agency.
4 The Mass Action for Peace was recognized in films such as Pray the Devil Back to Hell (Reticker and Disney Citation2008) and one of its main organizers, Leymah Gbowee, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011 for her efforts.