In July 2009, The Human Rights Data Analysis Group concluded a three-year project with the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission to help clarify Liberia’s violent history and hold perpetrators of human rights abuses accountable for their actions. In the course of this work, HRDAG analyzed more than 17,000 victim and witness statements collected by the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission and compiled the data into a report entitled “Descriptive Statistics From Statements to the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission.”

• Liberian TRC data and the accompanying data dictionary
• anonymized-statgivers.csv contains information about the individual statement-givers to the TRC
• anonymized-trc-main.csv contains information about the violations reported by the statement-givers to the TRC

If you use these data, please cite them with the following citation, as well as this note:

“These are convenience sample data, and as such they are not a statistically representative sample of events in this conflict.  These data do not support conclusions about patterns, trends, or other substantive comparisons (such as over time, space, ethnicity, age, etc.).”

Kristen Cibelli, Amelia Hoover, and Jule Krüger. (2009). Benetech/ Human Rights Data Analysis Group database of victim and witness statements collected by the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

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