ABSTRACT
The Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), signed in Accra, Ghana, in 2003, was the fifteenth peace agreement for Liberia since war began in 1989. 1 Most peace pacts held for only a few weeks. The 2003 agreement covered a broader range of issues and was more detailed than previous accords. Questions of justice were prominent in the negotiations, but left fundamentally unresolved in the final text. Investigation into the truth of the war’s crimes, and any threat of possible prosecutions, remained highly contentious for many years following the peace agreement. 2
