Leymah Roberta Gbowee is a Liberian peace activist responsible for leading a women's nonviolent 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. She, along with Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and 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." Wikipedia
Gruber Foundation, Women's Rights Prize (2009)
“Women are the ones that bear the greatest burden. We are also the ones who nurture societies.”
Interview for Women's E News, 21 Leaders for the 21st Century (2008)
“If any changes were to be made in society it had to be by the mothers.”
Gruber Foundation, Women's Rights Prize (2009)
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