Most significant positive evidence
Participation in peace agreements and eventual relinquishment of office receive limited credit.
Person
Charles Taylor
The assessment covers Judicially established assistance to murder, rape, mutilation, enslavement, child recruitment and terror against civilians overwhelmingly dominates the record.
This is a contemporary assessment current to 26 June 2026. It must be revised as later conduct and evidence become available.
Ethical assessment categories
Current published result
Overall ethical score
-95.50
Reasoned summary
Participation in peace agreements and eventual relinquishment of office receive limited credit. However, Judicially established assistance to murder, rape, mutilation, enslavement, child recruitment and terror against civilians overwhelmingly dominates the record.
This assessment presents six separate ethical dimensions rather than one overall moral score. Each result must be read with its evidence, plausible range, confidence, disputes, exclusions, severe-harm findings and sources.
Most significant negative evidence
Judicially established assistance to murder, rape, mutilation, enslavement, child recruitment and terror against civilians overwhelmingly dominates the record.
Read the full Charles Taylor ethical assessment, evidence and sources
Six-dimensional ethical profile
The overall figure is the equal-weight average of the applicable dimensions. It does not replace the separate scores, evidence or uncertainty.
- Personal moral conduct
- -95.00
- Rights and dignity
- -95.00
- Nonviolence and harm
- -95.00
- Stewardship of power
- -98.00
- Wisdom and truthfulness
- -93.50
- Consequential legacy
- -96.50
- Severe-harm record
- No separate finding recorded
Assessment history
Ethical assessment: Charles Taylor (1989–2003)
1989–2003 · Published assessment · reviewed June 26, 2026
Result: Six-dimensional ethical profile