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Leymah Gbowee
Liberian peace activist (born 1972)
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.[1] 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."[2][3]
Early life
Leymah Gbowee was born in central Liberia on 1 February 1972.
At the age of 17, she was living with her parents and two of her three sisters in Monrovia while planning on continuing her education,[4] when the First Liberian Civil War erupted in 1989,
