Aaron Weah
National Program Assistant, International Center for Transitional Justice
Focus: Accountable Policing
Topics: Integration and Amalgamation
Keywords: vetting, recruitment, media relations, information sources, training curriculum, external accountability, integration and amalgamation, corruption, ethnic representation, non-state security groups, private security, vigilantism, donor relations
Interviewer(s): Arthur Boutellis
Country of Reform: Liberia
Location: Monrovia, Liberia
Date: Mon May 12 2008
Abstract
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At the time of this interview, Aaron Weah was national program assistant at the International Center for Transitional Justice in Liberia. Before that, he worked for the Center for Democratic Empowerment. Initially, he was a research assistant and later, he became the program associate. He served as the focal person on the Security Sector Working Group, which was a coalition of leading civil-society organizations in Liberia that were committed to research and advocacy with the aim of guiding public policy processes on the reform of security agencies. As part of the working group, he visited Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and South Africa to try to identify best practices in police reform.
