JUSTICE MAGAZINE
(To be launched in November 2004)

FINJF will circulate a quarterly printed magazine that will consist of articles addressing corruption, famine and injustice in developing states. The need for institutional reforms in Africa, the transfer of technology to developing states, the construction of orphanages, the need for well funded health care deliver system, the demands for war crimes tribunal for Africa’s victims of wars, the status and standard of contemporary African education and the protection of African journalists, especially during times of war will be emphasized by Justice Magazine.

Current Articles
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• Re-engaging Africa --- The West 's new Frontier
  In eastern Africa , terrorist attacks on two US Embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam in 1998 left scores of Africans dead. Meanwhile, West African states entered the new millennium embroiled in religious, ethnic and political strife that continued to threaten the peace and stability of the mineral abundant region. Arguably, Africa was marginalized international in the 1990s and, subsequently, its people suffered tremendous losses that were largely due to western neglect and the burgeoning civil strife that occasioned the Cold War's end...
  
• And Where Are the Democrats of the 1990s?
  I am sick and disgusted with African politics, and the inconsistent policies that dominate the African political arena. In 1990, the Cold War ended, resulting in a new global policy initiative: democratization, the curtailment of regional conflicts, and economic reforms...
  
• Missing the Point — The West African Crises
  Again, the West African Republic of Liberia has collapsed into total chaos and hooliganism that are characterized by wanton killing, ethnic cleansing and the destruction of personal properties. As expected, the pundits are out with another round of analysis and predictions — pointing in the direction of peace, the formation of a national government of unity, the formation of a Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Committee and the disarmament of all combatants to the Liberian madness...
  
• Liberian Leadership Conference: Deception in Bethesda
  Again, the search for long-term peace and stability in Liberia has started in honest in the age-old “African Garden” of lies, cajolery, and deceit. And, as always, it seems like Liberian warlords and self-proclaimed politicians are determined to continue to vituperate the victims of the country’s seemingly endless civil war...
  
• Exploiting LURD’s Military Gains
  Once again, Liberia has imploded in another round of senseless civil war and thousands of Liberians are marching again into neighboring Ivory Coast, Ghana, Guinea and Sierra Leone where they will live in squalors and abject poverty until “Kingdom come”. In a May 2002 BBC interview, William Hanson, spokesman of the Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy [LURD] rebels pronounced a series of military success against the NPP Government of “Stone Age” Liberian dictator Charles Taylor. In that interview, the [LURD] spokesman noted that his group was after nobody else but President Taylor...