SPECIAL: Tennen Tehoungue, Liberian Transitional Justice Expert, on the War and Economics Crimes Court

Liberia: Democracy in Focus

Welcome to this special edition of Democracy in Focus, a collaboration between New Narratives and Front Page Africa. I’m Anthony Stephens.

As plans for Liberia’s war and economic crimes courts get underway, we are running a series of special interviews with Liberian and international justice experts and stakeholders about how the courts could work.

In this interview I speak by zoom with Liberian transitional justice expert Tenneh Dalieh Tehoungue. She’s is undertaking a PHD in transitional justice, peacebuilding, and reconciliation at Dublin City University in Ireland.

Tehoungue has some novel ideas for a court. One idea is for the Boakai administration to forgo international funding for the courts and ask the country’s diplomatic partners to, instead, return funds frozen from alleged Liberian criminals to support the court….

Funding for this podcast comes from the Swedish and US embassies in Liberia and the American Jewish World Service. See more of our collaborations with media in West Africa at www.newnarratives.org