Voting for peace
Subtitle: postconflict elections in Liberia
By: Terrence Lyons.
Series: Brookings studies in foreign policy ;; 3
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 104
Subjects: Elections -- Liberia; Presidents -- Liberia -- Election -- 1997; Liberia -- History -- Civil War, 1989-  -- Peace; Liberia -- Politics and government -- 1980-
Description: Elections have been used as a mechanism to institutionalize a new political order following internal conflict in Cambodia, El Salvador, Angola, Mozambique, Bosnia, and now Liberia. This book analyzes the Liberian transition and the July 1997 elections in order to better understand the relationship between war termination and transition to democracy and the role postconflict elections play in promoting both of these goals.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 77-96) and index.