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Bookmark or Share- Leymah Gbowee - Nobel Women's InitiativeExplore the impactful role of Leymah Gbowee, honored with the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011 for her leadership in a transformative women’s peace movement that successfully halted the Second Liberian Civil War in 2003.
- Leymah Gbowee – Facts - NobelPrize.orgLeymah Gbowee was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her non-violent efforts to promote peace and her struggle for women’s rights. In 1990 civil war broke out in Liberia. Leymah Gbowee underwent training in trauma therapy in order to take care of traumatised child soldiers.
- Leymah Gbowee - Academy of AchievementAt age 24, Leymah Gbowee was a single mother of four, with no job and no prospects. A refugee from the First Liberian Civil War, she returned from exile to a country devastated by years of ruthless warfare, characterized by mass rape and the brutal killing of civilians.
- Leymah Gbowee | Biography, Nobel Prize, Foundation, Accomplishments ...Leymah Gbowee is a Liberian peace activist known for rallying women to pressure leaders into ending Liberia’s civil war. She was one of three recipients, along with Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Tawakkul Karman, of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, for their nonviolent efforts to further the safety and rights of women.
- Leymah Gbowee – Nobel Lecture - NobelPrize.orgEarly 2003, seven of us women gathered in a makeshift office / conference room to discuss the Liberian civil war and the fast approaching war on the capital Monrovia. Armed with nothing but our conviction and $10 United States dollars, the Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace Campaign was born.
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