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Leymah Roberta Gbowee
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Leymah Gbowee is a Liberian activist born in 1972 who worked to promote peace in her country. She matters because her activism played an important role in Liberian efforts toward peace and reconciliation.
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- Oh, Sister! — Herself2022
- Prophets of Change — Narrator2022
- Pray the Devil Back to Hell — Herself2008
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Peace Prize2011
“for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work”
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Liberia
- Place of birth
- Monrovia
- Child
- Joshua
- Occupation
- activist
- Educated at
- Eastern Mennonite University
- Employer
- Columbia University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- Lutheranism
- Notable work
- Pray the Devil Back to Hell
- Field of work
- dispute resolution
- Image
- Leymah Gbowee (cropped).jpg
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- Commons category
- Leymah Gbowee
- date of birth
- 1972-02-01
- member of
- Nobel Women's Initiative
- social media followers
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Encyclopedic overview
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 Mass Action for Peace that helped bring an end to the Second Liberian Civil War in 2003. Her efforts to end the war, along with her collaborator Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, helped usher in a period of peace and enabled a free election in 2005 that Sirleaf won. Gbowee and Sirleaf, along with Tawakkul Karman, were awarded the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize "for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work."
Early life
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