John J. DeGioia President of Georgetown University requests the pleasure of your company for the conferral of an honorary degree upon Leymah Gbowee 2011 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Founder and President of the Gbowee Peace Foundation Africa, and Executive Director of the Institute on Gender, Law, and Transformative Peace As a special feature of […]
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.