Project by Vasudha Goel
B i o g r a p h y
Leymah Gbowee
-peace activist in Liberia who led a women's movement that became vital to ending the Second Liberian Civil War in 2003
-fleeing with the family
-pursues her dreams and goals
-nonviolent resistance
-"But the Liberian civil war was unthinkable: Boys in fourth grade were conscripted, drugged, and turned against their own people; women were abused and humiliated; rape became a tool of war. Many of the 200,000 people who perished during 14 years of hostilities were not simply shot—some were maimed and hacked to death."
-prayer to protest
-thousands of women staged pray-ins and nonviolent protests demanding reconciliation and the resuscitation of high-level peace talks
-Charles Taylor into exile; election of Africa’s first female head of state, Leymah's fellow 2011 Nobel Peace laureate Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
“The Gbowee Peace Foundation USA supports, builds awareness of, and promotes and facilitates engagement with the vision and work of Leymah Gbowee and organizations working in Liberia, West Africa and globally in the areas of:
- -Peace, Security, and Reconciliation
- -Girls' and Women's Rights and Leadership"
