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Liberia: Traditional Leaders Support Carter Center
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The Analyst (Monrovia)
23 April 2008
Posted to the web 23 April 2008
The National Traditional Council of Liberia has committed itself to a peaceful working collaboration, mainly in the arrears of peace conflict resolution and the rule of law with the International America Group, Carter Center.
The commitment was reached at the end of the three-day regional traditional consultative meeting of nearly one hundred and fifty representatives from the five western regions of Liberia. They are Gbarpolu, Margibi, Montserrado, Cape Mount, and host Bomi Counties.
The event was organized by the Ministry of Internal Affairs in collaboration with Carter Center Rule of Law Project for Liberia
The traditional leaders which include Chief Jallah Lone and the National Traditional Council boss, Chief Zanzan Karwah said their commitment with Carter Center was based on the work of the American group is doing in the country.
They described the work as very great and important job through out the country, spreading and teaching the rule of law by educating people in rural parts of the country to know their rights and responsibilities.
The Traditionalists from Western Liberia at the end of the program were responding to a charge by the Carter Center to serve as Ambassador of Peace, Leadership, and the Rule of Law in Liberia. The charge was placed on them on behalf of the Carter Center by its Officer-In- Charge, Pewe Flomoku.
But key in recommendations, the traditional leaders said to effectively function; they must first be empowered by central government by providing them with vehicles and called for their offices to be completely separated from the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
The leaders also said they were not challenging the constitution or the government but wants a revisit of the law that put to halt trial by ordeal or sassay wood as this was the best way they could judge many of their traditional cases.
Mr, Flomoku, who charged the leaders also provided Carter Center symbols of peace to them and said the organization was only serving as messenger between the government and the traditional leaders to make their voice and position known to national government for possible consideration.
He also said after learning leadership training, a vehicle to drive local development, rule of law and justice system in Liberia, customary marriage rights dowry inheritance and the gender based violence and rape.
His organization was pleased to charge them as peace, rule of law and advocates ambassadors in Liberia.
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Deputy Internal Affairs Minister, Walter Wisner said the traditional consultative leadership meeting was the first phase of regional meetings planned by the government to decentralize development policies and get inputs of the leaders who he described as a major force to achieve national development, peace the rule of law and reconciliation for all Liberians
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