摘要：RECONSTRUCTION IN NORTHERN L IBERIA presented
daunting challenges when the International Rescue
Committee launched a community-driven reconstruction
(CDR) program there in 2006. The area had been racked by
civil war since 1989, when Charles Taylor¡¯s rebel group, the
NPFL, launched its attack fromCote d¡¯Ivoire. The conflict was
devastating, with 85 percent of the local population displaced
at some point during the fighting and over four percent killed
directly from war-related violence. The conflict was finally
brought to an end with Taylor¡¯s exile, a transition government,
a UN peacekeeping mission and elections in 2005.
