Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace is a peace movement started in 2003 by women in Monrovia, Liberia, Africa, that worked to end the Second Liberian Civil War. [1] Organized by Crystal Roh Gawding and social workers Leymah Gbowee and Comfort Freeman, the movement began despite Liberia having extremely limited civil rights.

2024年2月4日 · WLAMP began organizing a protest, spreading the word through radio, their message encouraging the women of Liberia to stand up for peace. Over 2,500 women gathered every day at a fish market, strategically located where Taylor would encounter them. They prayed, danced, chanted and sang, holding signs that read “The women of Liberia want peace now.”

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.

2021年3月22日 · Aged 28, with little experience of women-led campaigning, Gbowee approached a group of established female activists with the idea of starting a Liberian branch of the regional Women in...

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. This historic achievement paved the way for the election of Africa’s first female head of state, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.

2025年1月1日 · Leymah Gbowee is a Liberian peace activist known for rallying women to pressure leaders into ending Liberia’s civil war. She was one of three recipients, along with Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Tawakkul Karman, of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, for their nonviolent efforts to further the safety and rights of women.

2023年3月1日 · In this chapter, we explore the dual effect of Liberian women’s political activism in both dismantling and reinforcing a system of oppression, and examine the challenges women faced during and after the conflict. Before establishing a conceptual platform, we briefly retrace the historical background of the conflict.

2024年2月16日 · Georgetown honored Leymah Gbowee, a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and women’s rights advocate who played a major role in ending the Second Liberian Civil War, with an honorary degree.

2021年8月28日 · Women-led advancements in Liberia are ascending to greater levels in society and gradually changing the infrastructure of Liberia. Subject to wife burning, dowry-related violence and rape, these women have begun to pave a new way forward.

Liberian women’s political activism continued in the aftermath of the Accra peace accord through the period leading to 2005 elections, which brought Ellen Johnson Sirleaf to the presidency....