Hey everyone First, another shout out to you all for your tremendous support and words of encouragement! It really is amazing to know that people are listening and inspired and caring. The word from our team in Freetown is that they are headed to Ghana to return with the TRC report by the end of […]

Hey there – Many hours layover in Brussels but its given me the chance to hatch a scheme with a former TRC researcher also passing thru to get the final printed report to the President so he will issue the legislative recommendations to his cabinet and from there to Parliament. Step by step! We got […]

OK, here are some new shots of Angelina and I from the event yesterday before the press conference and then of Angie, Gavin and I from last night, working away to get the latest press release out after the meeting with the Pres….    

So we stayed up a little too late talking about the day’s amazing successes. You should have been there! The meeting with the President, frantically amending the press release in the car on the way to the screening at the British Council (since it went from anticipated bad news to good news!) and then an […]

So the night is young (again!) but I think the day was a real success.  Angelina Jolie joined me and our consultant Gavin Simpson and our 4 key allies from Sierra Leone in an intense and productive meeting with the President of Sierra Leone, his Attorney General and other key advisors. In that meeting, he […]

May 9, 2005 In the air over Africa — headed for Freetown, Thinking about the goals of this trip…I need to ground myself, and you, in what we are doing here. Top priority is to get the President of Sierra Leone to commit to a definitive time frame for issuing the promised White Paper on […]