Leymah Gbowee

Leymah Gbowee is a Nobel Peace Laureate and women's rights and peace activist from Liberia. She is the founder of Women in Peacebuilding Program/ West African Network for Peacebuilding (<a href="http:

Leymah Gbowee: five words for the men of Libya

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Leymah Gbowee was recently invited to Tripoli to deliver a speech on the role of women in transforming conflict and leading reconciliation in Libya. When she saw who was in the audience, she changed her prepared speech...

By Leymah Gbowee

/ 10 Jun 2013

Child soldiers, child wives: wounded for life

Working with ex-child soldiers of Charles Taylor's army, and the girls they have taken as wives, has convinced Nobel Peace laureate Leymah Gbowee that the abuse women suffer during conflict is a reflection of the interaction between men and women, boys and girls, during peace time.

By Leymah Gbowee

/ 26 Nov 2012