liberia. they said they had enough. christian and muslim women alike joined together to make it clear to the men who were negotiating the peace agreement, which they had tried to negotiate i think seven or eight times before, they were not going home. in fact they barred the doors and boarded the windows so the men could not escape until they could reach an agreement. one of my favorite daumtryes, "pray the devil back to hell. women stood up and said we're the ones who are most at risk. it is our children who are being savagely abused or killed. we cannot stand for this any longer. so as the institute at georgetown does its work, the national defense university integrates into the curriculum what it means to stand up for women in peace and security, we will learn these lessons and be able to work with our friends and colleagues in afghanistan and to make the case over and over again that peace agreements don't last if they don't represent the entire community. you can't do that without having

we never would have ended the horrible conflict in liberia if not for the women of liberia. they said they'd had enough. christian and muslim women alike joined together to make it clear to the men who were negotiating the peace agreement which they tried to negotiate seven or eight times before, they were not going home. they barred the doors and guarded the windows so the men could not escape until they reached a peace agreement. if you want to see that in action, one of my favorite documentaries is "pray the devil back to hell" is what happened in liberia. women stood up and said we're the ones who are most at risk. it is our children who are being savagely abused or killed. and the national defense university integrates into the curriculum what it means to stand up for women and peace and security, we will learn these lessons and be able to work with our friends and colleagues in afghanistan and to make the case over and over again that these agreements don't last if they don't represent the entire community. and you can't do that without having women's voices and partic

liberia is emerging from years of devastating civil war. the volunteers from howard county traveled there last year to get a handle on the sort of help they need. >> this year we're following up on a promise. last year we told them we'd be back. we're going to come back with a lot of others to help and we'll bring some equipment. >> like it when you're a man of your word. the photos of the trip, here are a few from last year. this time the howard county group will provide the liberian firefighters with a used fire engine and ambulance, a lot of used but still useful gear. they're working in conjunction with other fire departments from across the country. >>> we are on top of some breaking news tonight as los angeles international airport still closed right now after a shooting this afternoon. >> one tsa agent dead, six people at least including the gunman hurt. our bruce leshan is monitoring the situation and joins us now live with the latest. >> police say it now looks like 23-year-old paul ciancia was going through the terminal targeting

it was a panama flagged ship from liberia and correct safety procedures had not been followed, but he did not say where the liability lay beyond that. those who arguing were noting the ship aware of the shortcomings of the state of repair. obviously going to continue. people here are angry, especially the environmentalist who are curious about the fact that this is not being resolved, and it may will on -- may well go on to another court. >> here is a look at some other world news stories. a potentially fatal blow for ukraine's trade deal with the eu . a special session of the ukrainian parliament on the future of the jailed former prime minister ended without a vote. whether toebating let him leave for medical care. her release is a key requirement to sign ae to be able trade agreement with the european union later this month. up to 300 are feared dead after a cyclone in somalia. now in of emergency is place after days of flooding in the northeast. some of the areas most hit are the infamous pirate hotspots. egypt -- the egyptian deposed president mohamed morsi says that he will sue

what happened in liberia is a bunch of muslin and presbyterian women got together created an alliance between themselves to put economic pressure on the government to shut down the conflict, and they went overseas with help from nigeria group of lawyers to put pressure on the rebel side of the conflict and force people to stop fighting, and that's one of the few examples of successful kind of bottom-up peace building we've seen, but, again, it's enabled by connectivity, and i think we'll see more examples of this going forward. sorry, i think, you know, peace building, bottom up is really important, but, you know, they need an international peace keeping force by the states to come in and police the peace agreement in place; right? that does not let us off the hook. we have to be ready to get into the environments, but, ultimate,ly, the solution comes from within the society or doesn't come at all; right? you can't impose peace from people outside, and you certainly can't impose legitimacy on a political system from outside. you can't assemble a state from other states, and then bring

those were waging war on the continent starting for instance when charles taylor in liberia at a time when it was rather the aim is to go and confront those kinds of people. yet it seems that connected six would have beat me to bed though because that thing gets out how to be at the level of the doubt that the doubts and doubt you'd need to sit down with it man down as africans this is in doubt. i'm a dog does lead me to sit so the problem of self we don't eat out and am instead. so that's why we we in now. it meant to say then we'd make the stout tailoring we continue to meet to discuss with you to please him because of time in mumbai remember that taylor was attacking a country like india and he knew was he out did you know that it did the wind was seated at the fiji is that these days and so many. i'm in that region that is stable and tyler was just about attacking india and to believe enough. add tomato the vicinity the india kenya went to the peninsula taylor and i think that we will enable it to the end it happened in other places because you can dump it. she loved them. a doozy

india,l down liberia, then i read a fat sheaf of briefings on the visitors. also try to go over the guest list a good many times before hopefully you can say something more than just how do you do to our guests who come from all over the united states to meet the visiting head of state. and then it is a high moment when the color guard enters. the president escorts the wife of the visiting chief and i, in turn, with our guest. for a year, the handsome marine captain who led the group was chuck robb. he's terribly military and impressive. many months it passed before i realized i might be looking at our future son-in-law. we've had so many wonderful personal happy times in this room. here, lyndon and i celebrated just last year our 33rd wedding anniversary. the cake that linda planned hailed our time together one third of a century. -- was our grandson's first birthday. was a cake for it is when provided us with a household crisis. in the end, the furniture didn't suffer one bit, but my nerves did. and then there was the christmas of 67. my husband was plunged

in liberia muslim am presbytery and women got together to create an alliance to put economic pressure on the government to shut down the conflict then they went overseas with help from nigerian lawyers to put pressure on the rebel side to force them to stop fighting one of the few examples of the bottom-up peace building enabled by conductivity and we will see more examples going forward. third piece building bottom-up is important but they still have the international peacekeeping force to keep that agreement but ultimately the solution comes from within the society or it does not, and all. you certainly cannot impose legitimacy on the political system you cannot assemble a state to bring in the spark battle of body parts of a slap you can animate that that will walk and talk then it will go dead. and that spark of legitimacy hast to come from within said with a couple places of nigeria that happen to be resilient, libya and it comes from an urban population that will be dominant of the next generation. >> host: david thank you very much. this concludes our portion. [applause] the wa

going to love level the taxes necessary and enslaved people overwhelmingly did not want to go to liberia. because it was a pretty grim situation, particularly for disease, and this became pretty well-known and so in this includes colonization and it's a nonstarter for many reasons. and that is what this episode was about. >> we also have a question here. >> how many successful escapes to trinidad were you able to find? >> many have escaped with the british, the men would become organized as colonial marines and women and children would come along and be in the refugee camp and later some of them would be part of this with women and children and after the war the british would reallocate them to trinidad. so there's kind of a division. and those will go to trinidad, overwhelmingly those associated with it. and they are settled in particular communities known as company towns and given their own and this includes the noncommissioned officers of the colonial marines are then became the local magistrate of these communities and the local leaders. the missing includes justice. it's one big es

in 1822, the liberia colony is established. >> the country in africa. >> where free black people areo be transported to. they are also overrepresented in the debates about indian removal in the south. overrepresented, as i point out in the boat, the process of establishing missions to convert jews living in the united states or fund their removal from the united states. when you put it together you have this extraordinary vision of the united dates as a white, christian society, racially cleansed and purified, but what that actually means is that race becomes the common ground between north and south. northern academics begin to articulate a vision for the future of the united states as a racially purified society where slavery could continue to exist as long as it was contained and as long as it served the interests of the white south. but the role and future of the nation would be a white, christian society. thene image you have in book is from 1826, a flyer, washington college, now washington and lee, advertising negroes for higher. 20 likely negroes belonging to washington colleg

a woman in liberia says to me, we have these rice wars, i knew the price of a bag of rice. none of the men did. a woman in darfur gets into the peace talks. they're stymied and she comes in at the seventh round, they are arguing about where the river should be. who gets the river, the different warring factions and she listens and finally she says, that river dried up years ago. [laughter] i will never forget i will never forget when blanche lincoln from arkansas said, when congress reconvened after the summer, they were talking about minimum wage and she said, i went to target and i bought shoes for my twins to go back to school. i bought the notebooks and i bought the pens. you could not buy those on minimum wage. i know the price. that to me is critical. >> so, practicality. >> women are introducing more laws and work hard to get them past. they care deeply about content. it springs from that reason that they got into the government in the first place. they are committed to projects and have a passion for policy work. that is something that women uniquely bring to govern

last year, while working at the world bank on some of the poorest nations in africa, liberia, sierrane, and any -- guniinea, there is the power supply situation which is catastrophic. the government does not function. businesses cannot grow. children cannot learn. doctors cannot save lives. nobody would invest. so multilateral donors have committed to a transmission line across national boundaries, a regional electricity market, and the right regional infrastructure. the first giant step towards attracting private sector investment laying the foundation for future growth. those countries now share a common economic and political interests, a stake in making that powerline work, and raising their standards of governance so it works for them all, sharing information, building capacity, learning from one another developing regional cohesion, all in a region where mistrust was dominant. truly, in those countries, it is energy that is transforming lives. the lives of children communities. government to function, and long-term value is created. for those countries and value for the city of

there are other good examples of effected united nations actions liberia among others.then recently we hear about this intervention of the eastern kondo which is a force that that is more than a peacekeeping mandate but peace enforcing. and always with the court -- bush 43 of ministration there is condescension to the capability in utility of the u.n. although i noted that mr. rumsfeld as he thought how do we get out of this heavy stuff may be capacitate un peacekeeping forces may not be a bad thing. that cost a fraction of what it cost to deploy a u.s. force we pay $0.26 on the dollar not to mention the differential between the cost of fielding the un force and the american force it is in order of magnitude at least if not more. my question would be how much time do we or should we spend to try to factor in and institutions like the united nations into our defense posture? or how much do we think about outsourcing? >> the last question. >> it seems if we discuss the future of american defense we would give thought to the future of the american relationship with china.

i go to the third floor before the occasion, look at the great map case and pull down liberia, india, then i read chief briefing on the visitor and his country. i also try to go over the guest list a good many times before the state dinner because hopefully you can say something more than just "how do you do" to our guests who come from all over the united states to meet the visiting head of state, and then it is a high moment when the color guard enters. the president escorts the wife of the visiting chief, and i, in turn, by our guests. for a year, the handsome marine captains who led the group was terribly military and impressive. it was not until months passed that i realized that i might be looking at our future son-in-law. we have had so many wonderful, personal, happy times in this room. here, lyndon and i celebrated just last year, our 33rd wedding anniversary. the cake that linda planned held our time together one-third of a century. what a day was our grand son's first birthday. like all birthdays, the climax is the cake. this one provided us with a household crisis. those s

in liberia muslim am presbytery and women got together to create an alliance to put economic pressure on the government to shut down the conflict then they went overseas with help from nigerian lawyers to put pressure on the rebel side to force them to stop fighting one of the few examples of the bottom-up peace building enabled by conductivity and we will see more examples going forward. third piece building bottom-up is important but they still have the international peacekeeping force to keep that agreement but ultimately the solution comes from within the society or it does not, and all. you certainly cannot impose legitimacy on the political system you cannot assemble a state to bring in the spark battle of body parts of a slap you can animate that that will walk and talk then it will go dead. and that spark of legitimacy hast to come from within said with a couple places of nigeria that happen to be resilient, libya and it comes from an urban population that will be dominant of the next generation. >> host: david thank you very much. this concludes our portion. [applause] the wa

a woman in liberia says to me, we have these rice wars, i knew the price of a bag of rice.one of the men did. a woman in darfur gets into the peace talks. they're stymied, and she comes in at the seventh round, they are arguing about where the river should be. who gets the river, the different warring factions, and she listens and finally she says, that river dried up years ago. [laughter] i will never forget -- i will never forget when blanche lincoln from arkansas said, when congress reconvened after the summer, they were talking about minimum wage and she said, i went to target and i bought shoes for my twins to go back to school. i bought the notebooks and i bought the pens. you could not have bought those on minimum wage. i know the price. that to me is critical. >> so, practicality. >> women are introducing more laws and work hard to get them passed. they care deeply about content. it springs from that reason why they got into the government in the first place. they are committed to projects and have a passion for policy work. that is something that women bring to gov

i go to the third floor before the occasion and look at the great map case and pull down liberia, india, then i read the briefings on the visitor and his country. i go over the guest list a few state dinner because hopefully you can say something more than how do you do to our guests who come from all over the united states to meet the visiting head of states. and then, it is a high moment and the color guard enters. of the visiting chief. and i'll return with our guest. perhaps the marine captain who led the group was chuck rob. he's military and impressive. it wasn't until months had passed that i realized i might be looking at our future son-in-law. we had had so many wonderful personal happy times in this room. here, lyndon and i celebrated just last year our 33rd wedding anniversary. the cake that lynda planned painted our time together, one third of a century. what a day, also our grandson's first birthday. birthdays, the climax is the cake. hold crisis. those sticky little feet and the elegant room. in the end, the furniture didn't suffer one bit, but my nerves did. and then that

there were a couple other very good examples of the united nations action, liberia among others and nowrecently we have heard about this intervention force being sent into the eastern congo which is a force with more than a peacekeeping mandate, but a peace enforcing. my point would be coming and i've always encountered in the bush 43 administration a certain amount of compensation to words that capabilities into the utilities, the utility of the un although i noted that mr. rumsfeld as he started thinking about how do we get out of some of this heavy stuff that we've gotten

there were a couple other very good examples of the united nations action, liberia among others and now recently we have heard about this intervention force being sent into the eastern congo which is a force with more than a peacekeeping mandate, but a peace enforcing. my point would be coming and i've always encountered in the bush 43 administration a certain amount of compensation to words that capabilities into the utilities, the utility of the un although i noted that mr. rumsfeld as he started thinking about how do we get out of some of this heavy stuff that we've gotten ourselves into baby capacity in u.s. peacekeeping forces may not be a bad thing to think about. they cost a fraction of what it costs to deploy a force we pay 26 cents on the dollar for the forces not to mention the differential between the cost of fielding a un force and the cost of fielding an american force. it's an order of magnitude at least if not more. so my question would be hell much time do we or should we spend trying to factor in institutions like the united nations into our defense posture? i guess onc

i go to the third floor before the occasion and look at the great map case and pull down liberia, indiaen i a fairly of briefings on the visitor and his country. i also try to go over the guest list. a good many times before the state dinner. because hopefully you can say something more than just how do you do? to our guests who come from all over the united states to meet the visiting head of state. and then, it is a high moment when the color guard enters. the president escorts the wife of the visiting chief and i in turn bring our guest. for a year, perhaps the marine captain who led the group was chuck robb. he was terribly military and impressive. it was not until months had passed that i realized i might be looking at our future son-in-law. we have had so many wonderful personal, happy times in this room. here, lyndon and i celebrated just last year our 33rd wedding anniversary. the cake that linda planned held our time together one third of a century. what a day. it was our grandson's first birthday. like all birthdays the climax is the cake. this one provided us with a household