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The Interagency Conflict Assessment Framework (ICAF) application began in a full-day workshop which was held on January 8, 2010 in Arlington, Virginia. About 30 representatives from across the interagency with expertise in Liberia participated in the opening phase of the ICAF application for Liberia. Embassy Monrovia’s Political/Economic Counselor, Steven Koutsis, and Deputy USAID Mission Director, Carolyn Bryan, participated as did AFRICOM Desk Officer, Dorothy Perkins. Also participating were representatives from US Department of
State, Justice, Energy, Health and Human Services, Treasury, Commerce, Agriculture and USAID. A representative from the United Nations Development Program, Liberia Desk Officers from USAID, State and the Office of the Secretary of Defense and academics with Liberia expertise from the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University, George Washington University, and the Woodrow Wilson Center. At the conclusion of the workshop, the participants agreed on a list of issues that needed to be further investigated. These “what we don’t knows” formed the basis for the in-country ICAF.