Leymah Gbowee

Liberia reacts to President’s Nobel Peace Prize

Two Liberian women shared this year’s Nobel Peace Prize with a woman from Yemen. The news provoked celebrations and pride in many parts of Liberia, though not everyone is happy.

2011 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to women activists

TED Talks: Nobel-Laureate Leymah Gbowee on Peace in Liberia, and the World

Reaction From Liberia on Nobel Prize

Global Politics
The World

Three women awarded Nobel Peace Prize

Arts, Culture & Media
The World

Sheryl WuDunn on this year’s Nobel Peace Prize winners

Arts, Culture & Media

Sheryl WuDunn and her husband, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, wrote “Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide,” which advocates improving the conditions of women in order to improve the world. We talk with WuDunn.

Rebuilding of Liberia After War

Global Politics

Gbowee discusses her new memoir “Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer and Sex changed a National at War.”