About the Global Gateway for Students

  • The Global Gateway for Students is a place where students can interact directly with Pulitzer Center-funded reporters -- and with each other -- to discuss and debate critical international issues and the challenges and promises of international reporting. Click here to view Pulitzer Center's Global Gateway homepage.

Scars & Stripes: Liberian Youth After the War

  • A Pulitzer Center-sponsored reporting project

    After Liberia’s 14-year civil war a generation of youth were left knowing nothing but war. Some remained in Liberia, while others fled to places such as Staten Island. Reporter Ruthie Ackerman and photographer Andre Lambertson travel from Staten Island to Liberia to explore the challenges facing youth in post-war Liberia and see what happens when they arrive on American soil. Their reporting project, titled "Scars and Stripes: Liberian Youth After the War," is featured on Pulitzer Center's website. To view this reporting project, plus access links to additional resources on the broader topic of life after war in Liberia, click here.

Global Gateway: Liberia

Thanks for joining us as we explore the critical issue of former child soldiers in Liberia, and in the US.

Our first goal with the Global Gateway is to engage you, the students, on international issues that have been under-reported or mis-reported in the mainstream media, and ask you to think about how these international stories relate to your own lives. We also hope to inspire you to become critical thinkers about the way media is shaped in the United States: What's missing from the headlines? Why are there fewer foreign reporters out there today when our world is globalizing so rapidly? Is this a problem? And if so, what can we do about it?

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Featured Article

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    Click on the picture above to read Ruthie Ackerman's article "From One Battlefront To Another."

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