Designing Memory for Peace: Experimental Evidence on Memorialization and Reconciliation in Liberia and Sierra Leone

• In Event: Conflict, Art, and Politics of Memory

Brief Overview

This study tests how different forms of memorialization—inclusive, exclusive, and virtual—affect intergroup trust and reconciliation in post-conflict Liberia and Sierra Leone using a randomized field experiment and complementary analyses.

Author

• Sekou Jabateh, University of California, Berkeley