Liberian women demonstrate at the American Embassy in Monrovia during the height of the civil war in July 2003. (Pewee Flomoku) (via Forcing an end to war in Liberia - The Boston Globe)
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Along with Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (the first woman president in Africa), and journalist Tawakkul Karman, she is this year’s winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. I met her in a luncheon reception just before her address which you can see in this link.
Leymah Roberta Gbowee UMass Lowell Greeley Scholar for Peace Studies “Days Without Violence” featured speaker
Gbowee helped bring an end to Liberia’s bloody civil war. I wrote about her last year.
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