GANTA, NIMBA COUNTY, LIBERIA-USAID has launched a new program to support post-conflict psychological trauma healing and resilience targeting Nimba, Grand Gedeh and Maryland Counties.

The program will be rolled out at both the individual and community levels in the three counties that saw some of the worst civil war violence.

According to a release, the five-year project is titled, “Hope for a Better Future: Building Collaboration Resilience for Youth in Liberia Project.”

The program is expected to impact over forty-thousand youth aged 15 to 35, engaging them in activities that promote conflict avoidance/resolution, impulse control, collaborative reasoning and problem solving.

The National Commission for Justice and Peace and the Kofi Annan Institute for Conflict transformation at the University of Liberia, are partnering with Ken State University to implement the project.

They will help design conflict resolution and trauma healing practices that accommodate local preferences, and can spread beyond the current program.

USAID Mission Director, Jim Wright, hailed the project’s use of local voices with unique insights on solving local challenges, during the launch of the program in Ganta on Wednesday, February 15, 2023.