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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 Sir…
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Born 1 February 1972 · Q107037
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The [sex] strike lasted, on and off, for a few months. It had little or no practical effect, but it was extremely valuable in getting us media attention.
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“s help with each step. And that God sent her angels in the form of human beings who reached out a hand at just the moment when she was most desperate. As suggested by the interfaith character of the Liberian women”
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“The [sex] strike lasted, on and off, for a few months. It had little or no practical effect, but it was extremely valuable in getting us media attention.”
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Gbowee was a Bartels World Affairs Fellows at Cornell University, giving the annual Bartels World Affairs Lecture
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Awarded Bonn International Democracy Prize (2018).
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Gbowee did an interview with Harvard Divinity Schools, presenting a talk entitled "Women as Catalysts for Local and Global Spiritually-Engaged Movements for Sustainable Peace
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Gbowee spoke at a protest march organized by Women Wage Peace, a political grassroots group working to advance a peace agreement between Israel and Palestine
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And based in Monrovia, which provides educational and leadership opportunities to girls, women and the youth in Liberia
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– Olympic flag bearer in the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony
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“Women are the ones that bear the greatest burden. We are also the ones who nurture societies.”
“We are all responsible. We are all complicit. White T-shirts catch the light. What matters is what we then do with that light. (The peace activists wore white t-shirts during their protests.)”
“If any changes were to be made in society it had to be by the mothers.”
“The Liberian women peace movement demonstrated to the world that grassroots movements are essential to sustaining peace; that women in leadership positions are effective brokers for peace; and the importance of culturally relevant social justice movements. Liberia's experience is a good example to the world that women—especially African women—can be drivers of peace”
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Peace — for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work.
Awarded Nobel Peace Prize (2011).
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Did multiple interviews specifying the importance of her inclusion and determination in using religion as the stepping stone for achieving peace in Liberia
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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.”
Overlapping by one year with Sam Gbaydee Doe's eldest daughter, Samfee Doe, then a senior
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Awarded Profile in Courage Award (2009).
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Awarded Gruber Prize for Women's Rights (2009).
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While applying her training in trauma healing and reconciliation to try to rehabilitate some of the ex-child soldiers of Charles Taylor's army
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Increasing the already existing problem of rape and systematic brutality in Liberia, Gbowee felt the need for an inter-religious call for action
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In an effort to gain admission to an associate of arts degree program in social work at Mother Patern College of Health Sciences, Gbowee became a volunteer within a program of the Lutheran Church in Liberia operating out
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Lutheran pastors, lay leaders, teachers and health workers joined with the Christian Health Association of Liberia to try to repair the psychic and social damage left by the war
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Throwing the country into chaos until 1996
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Born 1972-02-01.
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