A peace agreement was reached in 2003 and the UN Peacekeepers came in. A transitional government was established. Charles Taylor (who has now been tried by the International Criminal Court) fled to Nigeria. In January, 2006, Liberia became the first country in Africa to elect a woman as president. Her name is __.

Peace studies is an interdisciplinary academic field that draws on political science, sociology, history, anthropology, theology, psychology, philosophy, and other fields to:

understand the causes of armed conflict;
develop ways to prevent and resolve war, genocide, terrorism, gross violations of human rights; and
build peaceful and just systems and societies.