Leymah Gbowee, 2011 Nobel Peace Prize winner and activist, will give the annual Bartels World Affairs Lecture on Tuesday, May 3. She led an interfaith women’s peace movement that played a pivotal role in bringing warlords to the peace table and ultim
Nobel Laureate Leymah Gbowee s inspirational quotes on peace, leadership, and women’s rights
These quotes by Leymah Gbowee, who led a peaceful women’s movement during the civil war in Liberia that ended in 2003, will inspire you.
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Many women have emerged as peacebuilding heroes from the civil wars in Liberia.
Activist and social worker Leymah Gbowee is one of them who led a non-violent movement by uniting the Muslim and Christian women to challenge a 14-year-old civil war in 2003.
A founding member and Liberia Coordinator of the Women in Peacebuilding Network (WIPNET) of the West Africa Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP), Leymah received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011.