The Nobel Peace Prize 2011
Awarded on: 2011-10-07
"for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work"
Leymah Gbowee
Born: 1972-02-01 in Monrovia, Liberia
Gender: female
Field: Liberian peace activist (born 1972)
Biography
Leymah Roberta Gbowee 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. 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."