- Amos Sawyer
Dr. Amos Claudius Sawyer (born
1945 ) is anAmerico-Liberian who was the President of the Interim Government of National Unity inLiberia (November 22 ,1990 –March 7 ,1994 ). Sawyer was born to Abel Sawyer and Sarah Sawyer in 1945, his siblings include,Joe Sawyer; the Sawyers were a prominentAmerico-Liberian family. He was a member of theLiberian People's Party . In the period after the abduction (and eventual murder) of presidentSamuel Doe , from9 September 1990 until22 November 1990 , principal mutineerPrince Johnson , and coconspirator Charles Taylor both made claims on the presidency. In late August in an emergency conference inThe Gambia , Sawyer was voted interim president and BishopRoland Diggs was voted vice-president by a delegation of 35 Liberians representing seven political parties and eleven interest groups gathered for that purpose. His one-year appointment was extended for four years during the civil war fought against rebels led largely by Taylor, Johnson, andDavid Nimley . In 1994, he was forced to step down as a part of the peace process, and the role of official leader of Liberia was held, not by the president, but by the Chairmen of the Council of State. Fighting sparked again in1996 , and continued during Taylor's presidency from1997 -2003 .He holds a Ph.D. in political science from
Northwestern University . He lately served as Associate Director and Research Scholar, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis in the Department of Political Science at Indiana University inBloomington, Indiana , U.S., and is currently Chairman of the Governance Reform Commission in Liberia, which has recently become the Governance Commission. His book, "Beyond Plunder: Toward Democratic Governance in Liberia", was published in the spring of2005 . He supportedEllen Johnson-Sirleaf in the October 2005 elections.External links
*http://www.theperspective.org/lifeinmonrovia.html
* Indiana University: [http://newsinfo.iu.edu/sb/page/normal/1080.html Profile of Dr. Amos Sawyer]
*http://www.icnl.org/knowledge/ijnl/vol6iss4/art_1.htm
*http://unjobs.org/authors/amos-sawyer
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