"During the weekend of December 2nd we travelled to Robertsport, a Liberian town located right along the beach a few hours out from the capital. On Saturday morning, we scrambled to store our luggage and squeeze into our four-wheel drive, terrain-adaptive vehicles."
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With election tensions running high, Public Policy 85 students attended what is most likely one of the most important Supreme Court cases in Liberian history.
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The 2017 PBPL 85: Global Policy Leadership class is conducting two weeks of field research in Liberia during the off-campus portion of the course. Students visited the US Embassy in Monrovia as well as met Nick Jahr, an Election Observer for the Carter Center, and Leymah Gbowee, a Liberian activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner.
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PBPL 85 begins in the classroom during the fall term, where a select group of students study the history and context of a public policy challenge in a particular country or region and then travels there during Dartmouth’s winter interim to conduct field research.
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"ISW provided me an indispensable education on war and conflict, regional sectarian and ethnic dynamics, and exposed me to career options in the national security and policymaking communities that I hope to continue to explore after Dartmouth."
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