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In an interview with Accord, Ambassador Prince Zeid of Jordan, Chair of the Liberia Configuration of the UN Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) highlights UN priorities for Liberia: security sector reform, rule of law and national reconciliation.

Richard Reeve and Jackson Speare draw on local people's perspectives to review the current state of Liberia's security sector. Despite formal efforts, rural areas are still poorly policed, women are wary of security structures, and tensions remain between formal efforts and customary security arrangements.

Ibrahim Bangura and Irma Specht use interviews with young Liberian and Sierra Leonean men and women to describe how weak demobilisation processes and poor educational and employment prospects fail to address their aspirations and allow them to return to violence.