TTN to Co-Sponsor an Evening in Honor of Nobel Peace Laureate and activist Leymah Gbowee
March 7, 2012
About Leymah Gbowee:2011 Nobel Peace Laureate Leymah Gbowee is a Liberian peace activist, trained socialworker and women’s rights advocate. Gbowee’s leadership of the Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace brought together Christian and Muslim women in a non-violent movement that played a pivotal role in ending Liberia’s civil war in 2003. She is Founder and President of the Gbowee Peace Foundation Africa, head of the Liberia Reconciliation Initiative and Co-Founder and Executive Director of Women Peace and Security Network Africa. She is also the Newsweek Daily Beast's Africa columnist and the mother of six.
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