Leymah Roberta Gbowee
✓ Source-basedrisingLiberian peace activiste (born 1972)
Leymah Roberta Gbowee is a Liberian peace activist responsible for leading a women's non-violent peace movement, Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace that helped bring an end to the Second Liberian Civil War in 2003.
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All across Africa, even in the midst of the deepest and darkest civil war, women are still proving that we can hold communities together.
Nobel Prize Laureate talks women’s peacebuilding roles at Distinguished Lecture in African Studies The diary pennsy (Oct. 24, 2024)
Women bring the human side of the conflict on the table.
Leymah speaking on why it is important that women are included in solving conflicts. Nobel Peace Prize 2011
Peace for me is not the absence of war.
Defining peace. Nobel Peace Prize 2011
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Leymah Roberta Gbowee is a Liberian peace activist responsible for leading a women's non-violent peace movement, Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace that helped bring an end to the Second Liberian Civil War in 2003. Her efforts to end the war, along with her collaborator Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, helped usher in a period of peace and enabled a free election in 2005 that Sirleaf won. Gbowee and Sirleaf, along with Tawakkul Karman, were awarded the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize "for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work."
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