Leymah Gbowee

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Full Name	Leymah Gbowee
Occupation	Civil Rights Leader
Date Of Birth	Feb 1, 1972(1972-02-01)
Age	52
Country	Liberia
Horoscope	Aquarius

Leymah Gbowee Biography

Leymah Gbowee is one of the most popular and richest Civil Rights Leader who was born on February 1, 1972 in Liberia. Liberian activist who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her leadership of Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace. This organization helped to negotiate a peaceful settlement to the Second Liberian Civil War.

She worked with She collaborated in her peace efforts with Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberia’s first female president. to make peace, Liberia’s first woman president.

Leymah Roberta Gbowee (born 1 February 1972) 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.”

The THRP’s offices were new, but the program had a history. Liberia’s churches had been active in peace efforts ever since the civil war started, and in 1991, Lutheran pastors, lay leaders, teachers and health workers joined with the Christian Health Association of Liberia to try to repair the psychic and social damage left by the war. She studied and worked her way toward her associate of art degree, conferred in 2001, while applying her training in trauma healing and reconciliation to try to rehabilitate some of the ex-child soldiers of Charles Taylor’s army. Surrounded by the images of war, she realized that “if any changes were to be made in society it had to be by the mothers”. Gbowee gave birth to a second daughter Nicole “Pudu”, making her the mother of four, as she engaged in the next chapter of her life’s journey – rallying the women of Liberia to stop the violence that was destroying their children.

She fled domestic abuse as a young adult and fled to Ghana with her partner and children.

Leymah Gbowee Net Worth

Leymah Gbowee is one of the richest Civil Rights Leader from Liberia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Leymah Gbowee 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She received a degree as a social worker from Mother Patern College of Health Sciences. Later, she counseled ex-child soldiers.

Under her leadership, Liberian women participated in peaceful protests that included a well-publicized sex strike.

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, when the First Liberian Civil War erupted in 1989, throwing the country into chaos until 1996. “As the war subsided she learned about a program run by UNICEF,… training people to be social workers who would then counsel those traumatized by war,” wrote Gbowee in her 2011 memoir, Mighty Be Our Powers. She did a three-month training, which led her to be aware of her own abuse at the hands of the father of her two young children, son Joshua “Nuku” and daughter Amber. Searching for peace and sustenance for her family, Gbowee followed her partner, called Daniel in her memoir, to Ghana where she and her growing family (her second son, Arthur, was born) lived as virtually homeless refugees and almost starved. She fled with her three children, riding a bus on credit for over a week “because I didn’t have a cent,” back to the chaos of Liberia, where her parents and other family members still lived.

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Gbowee obtained an Associate of Arts degree in social work (2001) from Mother Patern College of Health Sciences in Monrovia, Liberia, and subsequently graduated with a Master of Arts in Conflict Transformation (2007) from Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. She also received a certificat in Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding Training from the United Nations Institute for Training, the Healing Victims of War Trauma Center in Cameroon, and Non-Violent Peace Education in Liberia

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Leymah Ranked on the list of most popular Civil Rights Leader. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Liberia. Leymah Gbowee celebrates birthday on February 1 of every year.

In the spring of 2002, Gbowee was spending her days employed in trauma-healing work and her evenings as the unpaid leader of WIPNET in Liberia. Her children, now including an adopted daughter named Lucia “Malou” (bringing the number of children to five), were living in Ghana under her sister’s care. Falling asleep in the WIPNET office one night, she awoke from a dream where she says God had told her, “Gather the women and pray for peace!” Some friends helped her to understand that the dream was not meant for others, as Gbowee thought; instead, she realized that it was a necessary for her to act upon it herself.

Top Facts about Leymah Gbowee

1. Leymah Gbowee is a Liberian peace activist born in 1972.
2. She led the Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace movement.
3. The movement helped end the Second Liberian Civil War.
4. Gbowee was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011.
5. She is also a trained social worker and trauma counselor.
6. Gbowee founded the Gbowee Peace Foundation Africa to promote peacebuilding.
7. She has written two books: “Mighty Be Our Powers” and “The Choice”.
8. Gbowee has been recognized with numerous awards and honors globally.
9. She advocates for women’s rights, education, and leadership development.
10. Gbowee continues to be an influential voice in global peacebuilding efforts.

What did Leymah Gbowee do?

She is Founder and President of the Gbowee Peace Foundation Africa , based in Monrovia. Leymah is best known for leading a nonviolent movement that brought together Christian and Muslim women to play a pivotal role in ending Liberia’s devastating, fourteen-year civil war in 2003.

What is Leymah Gbowee doing now?

She serves on the Board of Directors of the Nobel Women’s Initiative, Gbowee Peace Foundation and the PeaceJam Foundation , and she is a member of the African Women Leaders Network for Reproductive Health and Family Planning.

How did Leymah Gbowee create change?

She helped bring an end to a seemingly intractable civil war by mobilizing Christian and Muslim women in a collaborative resistance movement that was able, through sit-ins and other acts of resistance, to get President Charles Taylor to meet with rebel groups at the peace table in Ghana and eventually agree to peace …

Why did Leymah Gbowee win the Nobel Peace Prize?

In 2011, Gbowee won the Nobel Peace Prize for her commitment in leading a women’s peace movement that helped end the Second Liberian Civil War.

Who is the best President ever in Liberia history?

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf served as president of Liberia (2006–18), being the first woman elected head of state of an African country. As president, she secured millions of dollars of foreign investment and established a Truth and Reconciliation Committee to probe corruption and heal ethnic tensions.