Second Liberian Civil War

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

Leymah Gbowee, a speaker at TED2012, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011 for her pivotal role with Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace, the women’s peace movement that, in 2003, helped end the four-year-long Second Liberian Civil War. She shared the award with Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the first female president of Liberia. In […]

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Monrovia Protest Turns Deadly Ahead of Liberia’s Presidential Run-off

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