Aaron Weah is a Liberian transitional justice activist and researcher. He has worked across sectors; in civil society, government, and international non-governmental organisations for more than fifteen years. As a programme associate for the International Centre for Transitional Justice (ICTJ), he provided technical assistance to Liberia Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). In the same portfolio, he worked with grassroots communities, and together, they explored solutions to the vexing questions of post-conflict memorialisation. He was a policy analyst at the Liberia Governance Commission (2012-2014). He collaborated with relevant ministries, agencies and commissions in that role and drafted the Strategic Road Map for Peacebuilding, Reconciliation and National Healing. The Strategic Road Map for Reconciliation is conceived as an outgrowth of the TRC Final Report, a post-TRC instrument dedicated to implementing restorative justice measures. He also worked as Country Director for the Washington, DC-based Search for Common Ground, supporting Liberia’s peacebuilding agenda. Beyond Liberia, he continues to be engaged in Africa (specifically, in countries such as The Gambia, Ghana, and Sierra Leone), serving in a strategic technical capacity on peace and conflict, human rights, and transitional justice matters. Between Africa and Latin America, he is a member of the CLASP LAB Leadership Team, a coalition supported by Corporate Accountability (CAL) to hold companies accountable for abuses perpetrated in the line of their work. He has written and published on peacebuilding, memorialisation, and transitional justice and some of his works have appeared. in the Journal of the International Peace Institute (IPI), International Review of the Red Cross and the International Journal of Transitional Justice, (Oxford University Press).

He is a PhD. Researcher based at the Transitional Justice Institute (TJI), Ulster University, United Kingdom, investigating grassroots memorialisation of political violence perpetrated through massacres.

BBA: Management, Stella Maria Polytechnic University

MA: International Relations, University of Liberia