The essence of security sector reform especially in the military according to Dun and Tar were to change institutional norms, support professionalism, advance resource utilisation and operational effectiveness (on the side of the military), better policy management (on the side of civil authorities), in consonant with accountability and respect for human rights and international law and involving inputs from a variety of stakeholders and actors (Dunn, and Tar, 2008: 23).
Effective post conflict military reforms needs to effectively address comprehensive nation-building responsibilities of a military force, therefore attaining such in liberia will require sustain international commitment to the peace accords, re establishment of trust …show more content…
The freed settlers became the colonisers of the native Liberians with a responsibility to who constitutes over 95 per cent of the population, thereby administratively controlling the political, security as well as the economy of the state. As a result, the future of a post-colonial African state of Liberia began with all the associated negative impact of political domination and nepotism, economic wrongdoing, and social discrimination. The settlers exploited the instrumentality of the Church, the Masonic Lodge, and the True Whig Party (TWP), for political domination as such the settlers deliberately surpressed the indigenous population who in this case are the majority while ensuring that the TWP won all elections in Liberia from 1877 to 1980 (Olonisakin and Fumi 2013). Hence setting the pace for Liberia becoming a one-party state for over a hundred years, with all the political and socio-economic challenges that the control of power by a one party state is associated
Effective post conflict military reforms needs to effectively address comprehensive nation-building responsibilities of a military force, therefore attaining such in liberia will require sustain international commitment to the peace accords, re establishment of trust …show more content…
The freed settlers became the colonisers of the native Liberians with a responsibility to who constitutes over 95 per cent of the population, thereby administratively controlling the political, security as well as the economy of the state. As a result, the future of a post-colonial African state of Liberia began with all the associated negative impact of political domination and nepotism, economic wrongdoing, and social discrimination. The settlers exploited the instrumentality of the Church, the Masonic Lodge, and the True Whig Party (TWP), for political domination as such the settlers deliberately surpressed the indigenous population who in this case are the majority while ensuring that the TWP won all elections in Liberia from 1877 to 1980 (Olonisakin and Fumi 2013). Hence setting the pace for Liberia becoming a one-party state for over a hundred years, with all the political and socio-economic challenges that the control of power by a one party state is associated