Leymah Roberta Gbowee (born 1 February 1972) is a Liberian peace activist responsible for leading a women's non-violent peace movement, Women of Liberia...
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Organized by social worker Leymah Gbowee, the movement started with praying and singing in a fish market. Leymah Gbowee organized the Christian and Muslim...
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Liberian Civil War. Organized by Crystal Roh Gawding and social workers Leymah Gbowee and Comfort Freeman, the movement began despite Liberia having extremely...
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peace and reconciliation initiative," led by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Leymah Gbowee, to address the country's divisions and begin "a national dialogue that...
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Obama. Also in 2011, Beast Books published Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah Gbowee's memoir, Mighty Be Our Powers. In February 2010, Jack Shafer of Slate...
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offering to pay prostitutes for lost earnings if they joined in. In 2003 Leymah Gbowee and the Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace organized nonviolence...
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Devil Back to Hell brought to light the work of Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee by telling the story about the critical role women played in bringing...
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two Nobel Peace Laureates (Mairead Maguire of Northern Ireland and Leymah Gbowee of Liberia), Abigail Disney, and other prominent women peace activists...
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Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Leymah Gbowee, Barbra Streisand, Nancy Pelosi, Gloria Steinem, Zainab Salbi, Christiane...
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residents, to strike a deal with the community to provide needed services. Leymah Gbowee threatened to strip naked to prevent being arrested as she and other...
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Court February 1 Tego Calderón, Puerto Rican hip hop musician and actor Leymah Gbowee, Liberian peace activist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate February 2 Klára...
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about Leymah Gbowee, who led a peace movement to stop the Second Liberian Civil War and threatened a sex strike. Inspired by Worthy and Gbowee, Lysistrata...
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Manifesto for World Peace, along with Jody Williams, Mohamed El Baradei, Leymah Gbowee, Denis Mukwege, and philosopher Anthony Grayling. Sundeep Waslekar spent...
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nonviolent Revolutions of 1989. Most recently the nonviolent campaigns of Leymah Gbowee and the women of Liberia were able to achieve peace after a 14-year...
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successfully in mass protests against the petroleum industry in Nigeria, by Leymah Gbowee and Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace during the Second Liberian...
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presented by Awards Council members Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. and Leymah Gbowee at a ceremony in New York City. Mavis Staples (1969) Only for the Lonely...
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terms of the agreement. Karman, along with Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Leymah Gbowee, were the co-recipients of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize "for their non-violent...
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Sirleaf as National Independence Day. In October 2011, peace activist Leymah Gbowee received the Nobel Peace Prize in her work of leading a women's peace...
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with Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Liberian activist Leymah Gbowee. Karman was the first Yemeni citizen and first Arab woman to win a Nobel...
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in post-conflict countries such as Liberia with the peace activist Leymah Gbowee. Thelma Ekiyor received her MBA in Entrepreneurship and Innovation from...
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actor and producer 1971 – Tommy Salo, Swedish ice hockey player 1972 – Leymah Gbowee, Liberian peace activist 1972 – Christian Ziege, German footballer 1973...
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Prize laureate Elie Wiesel, as well as Óscar Arias, Shirin Ebadi and Leymah Gbowee, former president of Ireland Mary Robinson, human rights activist Hina...
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Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (b. 1938), Liberian activist Leymah Gbowee (b. 1972) and Yemeni politician Tawakkul Karman (b. 1979) "for their...
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Minister Netanyahu's formal residence. Among the speakers at the rally was Leymah Gbowee, a Liberian peace activist and 2011 Nobel Peace Prize laureate known...
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Health Organization; former prime minister of Norway Leymah Gbowee, founder and president of the Gbowee Peace Foundation Africa Hawley Hilton McAuliffe, board...
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doctorate from the university, the other being Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah Gbowee. On May 7, 2023, Stevenson delivered the Commencement address for the...
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antiwar.com Martin Gauger (1905–1941) – German jurist and pacifist Leymah Gbowee (born 1972) – Liberian peace activist, organizer of women's peace movement...
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threatened Liberia's fragile peace. A group of Liberian women headed by Leymah Gbowee formed an organization called "Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace"...
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and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work." Leymah Gbowee (born 1972) Tawakkul Karman (born 1979) Yemen 2012 European Union (founded...
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tired of seeing their country torn apart. Organized by social worker Leymah Gbowee, women started gathering and praying in a fish market to protest the...
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