Executive Order No. 131, signed by President Joseph Nyuma Boakai, Sr. of the Republic of Liberia on May 2, 2024, is the official Executive Order that formally established the Office of the War and Economic Crimes Court for Liberia, created with the purpose of designing and prescribing the methodology, mechanisms, and processes needed for the eventual establishment of both a Special War Crimes Court and a National Anti-Corruption Court for Liberia. Rooted in the country's fourteen-year civil war during which warring factions and individuals committed widespread atrocities including murder, genocide, rape, destruction of properties, and looting of national resources, the order draws its justification from the 2003 Comprehensive Accra Peace Agreement, the 2005 Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), and the TRC's 2010 Final Comprehensive Report, which cataloged war and economic crimes, identified responsible organizations and individuals, and recommended the creation of an Extraordinary Criminal Court to prosecute those responsible, a recommendation that, as the order itself candidly acknowledges, successive Legislatures and Executive administrations had failed to act upon, leaving what it described as a painful void in the nation and amongst its people that hampered the quest for national unity. The order also draws authority from Resolution No. 001/2024 passed by the 55th Legislature on April 8, 2024, calling on the Executive Branch to establish both a Special War Crimes Court, to prosecute war crimes and crimes against humanity committed between 1979 and 2003, and a National Anti-Corruption Court to adjudicate corruption from 1979 to the present, and while acknowledging that the Liberian Penal Law does not explicitly define or provide for war crimes prosecution, it establishes that Liberia's ratification of international treaties and conventions on war crimes incorporates those instruments into domestic law, providing the necessary legal foundation for prosecution. The Office is to be headed by an Executive Director who must be a highly qualified and reputable lawyer, knowledgeable in both Liberian constitutional and criminal law and experienced in working with the international community, supported by a secretariat and a core team of professional legal minds, with responsibilities that include researching and selecting an appropriate international tribunal model in consultation with international partners, liaising with those partners to source funding for the Special War Crimes Court, drafting legislation for the Anti-Corruption Court with a jurisdictional configuration separate and distinct from existing criminal courts, and recommending the scope, duration, and any other means by which the Special War Crimes Court can be expeditiously established. The Office is to operate as a semi-independent body, reporting to the Minister of Justice and Attorney General, divorced from any and all political influence and guided strictly by legal considerations, and its mandate shall automatically cease upon the full establishment and coming into operation of both the Special War Crimes Court and the Anti-Corruption Court, with the order expressly stating that nothing within it shall interfere with or diminish the rights of any Liberian citizen, taking immediate effect upon signing.