AA degree in social work, Mother Patern College of Health Sciences, Monrovia, Liberia; MA in conflict transformation, Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, Virginia, USA
Occupation
Peace activist
Known for
Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace and Pray the Devil Back to Hell
Awards
Nobel Peace Prize (2011)
Leymah Roberta Gbowee (born 1 February 1972) is a Liberian peace activist responsible for leading a women's nonviolent 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.[1] 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."[2][3]
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^Conley, Kevin (2008). "The Rabble Rousers". O, the Oprah Magazine. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
Leymah Roberta Gbowee (born 1 February 1972) is a Liberian peace activist responsible for leading a women's nonviolent peace movement, Women of Liberia...
Organized by social worker LeymahGbowee, the movement started with praying and singing in a fish market. LeymahGbowee organized the Christian and Muslim...
Liberian Civil War. Organized by Crystal Roh Gawding and social workers LeymahGbowee and Comfort Freeman, the movement began despite Liberia having extremely...
Devil Back to Hell brought to light the work of Liberian peace activist LeymahGbowee by telling the story about the critical role women played in bringing...
Obama. Also in 2011, Beast Books published Nobel Peace Prize winner LeymahGbowee's memoir, Mighty Be Our Powers. In February 2010, Jack Shafer of Slate...
peace and reconciliation initiative," led by Nobel Peace Prize laureate LeymahGbowee, to address the country's divisions and begin "a national dialogue that...
two Nobel Peace Laureates (Mairead Maguire of Northern Ireland and LeymahGbowee of Liberia), Abigail Disney, and other prominent women peace activists...
successfully in mass protests against the petroleum industry in Nigeria, by LeymahGbowee and Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace during the Second Liberian...
Court February 1 Tego Calderón, Puerto Rican hip hop musician and actor LeymahGbowee, Liberian peace activist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate February 2 Klára...
presentation there were 15 women. Karman, along with Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and LeymahGbowee, were the co-recipients of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize "for their non-violent...
nonviolent Revolutions of 1989. Most recently the nonviolent campaigns of LeymahGbowee and the women of Liberia were able to achieve peace after a 14-year...
against the petroleum industry, women displayed themselves in anasyrma. LeymahGbowee used anasyrma when trying to bring peace during the Second Liberian...
Prize laureate Elie Wiesel, as well as Óscar Arias, Shirin Ebadi and LeymahGbowee, former president of Ireland Mary Robinson, human rights activist Hina...
observed as National Independence Day. In October 2011, peace activist LeymahGbowee received the Nobel Peace Prize in her work of leading a women's peace...
in post-conflict countries such as Liberia with the peace activist LeymahGbowee. Thelma Ekiyor received her MBA in Entrepreneurship and Innovation from...
doctorate from the university, the other being Nobel Peace Prize winner LeymahGbowee. On May 7, 2023, Stevenson delivered the Commencement address for The...
bodies were found, including a number of West Africans. On 8 March, LeymahGbowee issued a statement of support for the peaceful protests of the Christian...
with Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Liberian activist LeymahGbowee. Karman was the first Yemeni citizen and first Arab woman to win a Nobel...
cross-cultural engagement." One of the three 2011 Nobel Peace Laureates, LeymahGbowee of Liberia, earned a master's degree in conflict transformation from...
antiwar.com Martin Gauger (1905–1941) – German jurist and pacifist LeymahGbowee (born 1972) – Liberian peace activist, organizer of women's peace movement...
and Sierra Leone. Regional leaders of nonviolent resistance include LeymahGbowee, Comfort Freeman, and Aya Virginie Toure. Pray the Devil Back to Hell...
tired of seeing their country torn apart. Organized by social worker LeymahGbowee, women started gathering and praying in a fish market to protest the...
actor and producer 1971 – Tommy Salo, Swedish ice hockey player 1972 – LeymahGbowee, Liberian peace activist 1972 – Christian Ziege, German footballer 1973...
Nobel Peace Prize which she received in 2004. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and LeymahGbowee shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Tawakkol Karman in 2011. In the United...
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