Leymah Roberta Gbowee (born 1 February 1972) is a Liberian peace activist responsible for leading a women's nonviolent peace movement, Women of Liberia... 67 KB (8,212 words) - 07:46, 9 April 2024 |
Organized by social worker Leymah Gbowee, the movement started with praying and singing in a fish market. Leymah Gbowee organized the Christian and Muslim... 12 KB (1,182 words) - 15:38, 4 July 2023 |
Liberian Civil War. Organized by Crystal Roh Gawding and social workers Leymah Gbowee and Comfort Freeman, the movement began despite Liberia having extremely... 17 KB (1,887 words) - 01:42, 10 December 2023 |
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... 65 KB (6,013 words) - 16:31, 28 April 2024 |
two Nobel Peace Laureates (Mairead Maguire of Northern Ireland and Leymah Gbowee of Liberia), Abigail Disney, and other prominent women peace activists... 122 KB (11,403 words) - 11:24, 8 April 2024 |
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... 25 KB (1,973 words) - 16:40, 1 December 2023 |
observed 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... 146 KB (13,507 words) - 00:26, 1 May 2024 |
in post-conflict countries such as Liberia with the peace activist Leymah Gbowee. Thelma Ekiyor received her MBA in Entrepreneurship and Innovation from... 16 KB (1,853 words) - 13:42, 26 March 2023 |
Prize laureate Elie Wiesel, as well as Óscar Arias, Shirin Ebadi and Leymah Gbowee, former president of Ireland Mary Robinson, human rights activist Hina... 25 KB (2,246 words) - 09:34, 26 April 2024 |
bodies were found, including a number of West Africans. On 8 March, Leymah Gbowee issued a statement of support for the peaceful protests of the Christian... 67 KB (5,914 words) - 15:55, 8 March 2024 |
against the petroleum industry, women displayed themselves in anasyrma. Leymah Gbowee used anasyrma when trying to bring peace during the Second Liberian... 12 KB (1,237 words) - 19:28, 18 April 2024 |
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (b. 1938), Liberian activist Leymah Gbowee (b. 1972) and Yemeni politician Tawakkul Karman (b. 1979) "for their... 4 KB (291 words) - 13:29, 10 August 2023 |
antiwar.com Martin Gauger (1905–1941) – German jurist and pacifist Leymah Gbowee (born 1972) – Liberian peace activist, organizer of women's peace movement... 87 KB (10,005 words) - 10:18, 27 April 2024 |
Nobel Peace Prize which she received in 2004. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Leymah Gbowee shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Tawakkol Karman in 2011. In the United... 54 KB (5,912 words) - 05:53, 30 April 2024 |
actor and producer 1971 – Tommy Salo, Swedish ice hockey player 1972 – Leymah Gbowee, Liberian peace activist 1972 – Christian Ziege, German footballer 1973... 62 KB (5,945 words) - 18:37, 10 April 2024 |
and Sierra Leone. Regional leaders of nonviolent resistance include Leymah Gbowee, Comfort Freeman, and Aya Virginie Toure. Pray the Devil Back to Hell... 98 KB (11,795 words) - 16:07, 4 April 2024 |
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... 85 KB (10,084 words) - 17:48, 23 April 2024 |
Revolution that toppled Ferdinand Marcos. In 2003, African peace activists Leymah Gbowee and Comfort Freeman organized Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace... 21 KB (2,205 words) - 16:58, 28 February 2023 |