SPECIAL: Alain Werner, Director of Justice Activists Civitas Maxima, on Liberia's War and Economics Crimes Courts

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 transitional justice experts and stakeholders about how the courts could work.

In this interview I speak by zoom with Alain Werner, a prosecutor with the Special Court for Sierra Leone and head of Civitas Maxima, which has had a key role in the cases against accused warlords in Europe and the United States over the last decade.

Werner also represented victims in the historic trial of former Chadian president, Hissène Habré, who was prosecuted in an extraordinary chamber in Senegal set up by the African Union…..

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