In 1971, the Baháʼís of Liberia hosted one of the Continental Conferences called for by the Universal House of Justice. The Baháʼí Faith was a recognized part of the intellectual milieu at the University of Liberia in the early 1970s. The community hosted a West African Baháʼí Women's Conference held at the University of Liberia in December 1978. However, between the First and Second Liberian Civil War stretching from 1989 to 2003, some 200 Liberian Baháʼí refugees fled to Côte d'Ivoire in 1990 and there re-elected Local Assemblies, established regular Baháʼí meetings, invested the equivalent of $20 in order to buy tools for gardens and fish ponds and by ??? about 1,000 Baháʼís and 25 Local Assemblies in the area. The use of folk art was mentioned as one reason for growth in the community - Liberian Baháʼís had established a Light of Unity Project for promoting the arts. and Baháʼí radio stations of which Liberia has one.