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Nov 27, 2021
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Media: arches oil paper
Size: 8x8 in
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President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s 2011 Nobel Peace Lecture invites me to consider what it takes to lead a country that has recently suffered two decades of civil war causing a devastating loss of infrastructure leaving Liberia with an enormous debt and losing nearly 250,000 human lives. After listening to several interviews and her Nobel Lecture, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf delivers clear well thought out ideas and answers to questions. Her education is in Public Administration but it is her diplomacy and communication skills that impress me the most. I very much enjoy her measured modulation while speaking that demonstrates experience, earned authority and the ability to clearly deliver ideas. She sends a graceful message with a “we” when speaking of the rebuilding of Liberia, showing respect and honoring the many persons who work with her. Her leadership style is humbling and powerful. Liberia means land of freedom. It was originally founded by a small group of freed slaves from the United States bringing with them a signed constitution drafted similar to the U.S. Constitution. I point this out only to share a disappointment. While seeking freedom from racism, from subjugation based on skin color or some man-made hierarchy of who is more worthy of opportunity to a full life, Liberia eventually developed a caste system whereby the lightest skinned persons were valued the most and the indigenous Africans were no more than slaves. Eventually, these divides created civil wars. Sirleaf reminds us that a new order can fall back. Sirleaf reminds us that the people must not be dependent on any one leader or any particular political party but rather build space and respect for oppositional voices which is essential to governmental accountability. Sirleaf’s final words; “We can talk about civil rights and justice as well as the lack there of, but I think of them as an ever evolving ideal as there is a reckoning again and again to define them and defend them in legal terms and laws. I see them as the continuous work towards the goal of bringing each individual peace and dignity.” President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s 2011 Nobel Peace Lecture invites me to consider what it takes to lead a country that has recently suffered two decades of civil war causing a devastating loss of infrastructure leaving Liberia with an enormous debt and losing nearly 250,000 human lives. After listening to several interviews and her Nobel Lecture, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf delivers clear well thought out ideas and answers to questions. Her education is in Public Administration but it is her diplomacy and communication skills that impress me the most. I very much enjoy her measured modulation while speaking that demonstrates experience, earned authority and the ability to clearly deliver ideas. She sends a graceful message with a “we” when speaking of the rebuilding of Liberia, showing respect and honoring the many persons who work with her. Her leadership style is humbling and powerful. Liberia means land of freedom. It was originally founded by a small group of freed slaves from the United States bringing with them a signed constitution drafted similar to the U.S. Constitution. I point this out only to share a disappointment. While seeking freedom from racism, from subjugation based on skin color or some man-made hierarchy of who is more worthy of opportunity to a full life, Liberia eventually developed a caste system whereby the lightest skinned persons were valued the most and the indigenous Africans were no more than slaves. Eventually, these divides created civil wars. Sirleaf reminds us that a new order can fall back. Sirleaf reminds us that the people must not be dependent on any one leader or any particular political party but rather build space and respect for oppositional voices which is essential to governmental accountability. Sirleaf’s final words; “We can talk about civil rights and justice as well as the lack there of, but I think of them as an ever evolving ideal as there is a reckoning again and again to define them and defend them in legal terms and laws. I see them as the continuous work towards the goal of bringing each individual peace and dignity.” |
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