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...

Organized by social worker Leymah Gbowee, the movement started with praying and singing in a fish market. Leymah Gbowee organized the Christian and Muslim...

Liberian Civil War. Organized by Crystal Roh Gawding and social workers Leymah Gbowee and Comfort Freeman, the movement began despite Liberia having extremely...

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...

peace and reconciliation initiative," led by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Leymah Gbowee, to address the country's divisions and begin "a national dialogue that...

two Nobel Peace Laureates (Mairead Maguire of Northern Ireland and Leymah Gbowee of Liberia), Abigail Disney, and other prominent women peace activists...

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...

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...

Court February 1 Tego Calderón, Puerto Rican hip hop musician and actor Leymah Gbowee, Liberian peace activist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate February 2 Klára...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Leymah Gbowee, Barbra Streisand, Nancy Pelosi, Gloria Steinem, Zainab Salbi, Christiane...

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...

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...

in post-conflict countries such as Liberia with the peace activist Leymah Gbowee. Thelma Ekiyor received her MBA in Entrepreneurship and Innovation from...

actor and producer 1971 – Tommy Salo, Swedish ice hockey player 1972 – Leymah Gbowee, Liberian peace activist 1972 – Christian Ziege, German footballer 1973...

doctorate from the university, the other being Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah Gbowee. On May 7, 2023, Stevenson delivered the Commencement address for the...

Prize laureate Elie Wiesel, as well as Óscar Arias, Shirin Ebadi and Leymah Gbowee, former president of Ireland Mary Robinson, human rights activist Hina...

cross-cultural engagement." One of the three 2011 Nobel Peace Laureates, Leymah Gbowee of Liberia, earned a master's degree in conflict transformation from...

and Nobel Peace laureates, Mairead Maguire of Northern Ireland and Leymah Gbowee of Liberia, crossed the DMZ to bring attention to the need for peace...

antiwar.com Martin Gauger (1905–1941) – German jurist and pacifist Leymah Gbowee (born 1972) – Liberian peace activist, organizer of women's peace movement...

Health Organization; former prime minister of Norway Leymah Gbowee, founder and president of the Gbowee Peace Foundation Africa Hawley Hilton McAuliffe, board...

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...

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (b. 1938), Liberian activist Leymah Gbowee (b. 1972) and Yemeni politician Tawakkul Karman (b. 1979) "for their...

the fighting. Afterwards, many of them were left homeless. In 2002 Leymah Gbowee organized the Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace, a group consisting...

William Hague. 20 September 2020, virtual: Global Cooperation. Debaters: Leymah Gbowee, Ece Temelkuran, Yanis Varoufakis. 04 November 2021, virtual: Climate...

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...