Journal Eight
Nobel Peace Laureate Leymah Gbowee
2011 Nobel Peace Laureate Leymah Gbowee is a Liberian
peace activist, social worker and women's rights advocate. 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.
One of the things I found most
important as I researched Leymah was that she showed that women can be more
powerful than men. She describes officers trying to arrest her and she simply threatens
to disrobe which can cause a curse on men and her threat worked simply showing
that she can have power over men in the little things they do. That is also
showing that words actions speak louder than words can be turned around to say
words speak louder than actions. She simply used nonviolent tactics to lean the
situation her way. Another thing that I found important was that she used her
nonviolent tactics to join women of Christian and Muslim faith to together put
an end to the long civil war in Liberia. Another effect of the ending of the war was a
win for the female gender as Africa's first female head of state was elected.
She can be known as the Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. This also
marked a new wave of women emerging worldwide as essential and uniquely
effective participants in brokering lasting peace.
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| "Leadership is standing with your people. People say you have to live to fight another day, but sometimes you have to show you are a true leader." - Leymah Gbowee |
I chose to use the web link below
because I believe it is the most creditable source because it come directly for
the website that is ran by the Nobel Peace prize organization.
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