1. Leymah Gbowee
Yunji

2. Introduce Leymah Gbowee
Role/job: A Liberian peace activist.
Family: parents, 3 sisters, 3 children (Joshua, Arthur, Amber)
Born: 1 February 1972
Religion: Christian (Lutheranism)
Country: Liberia

3. Her life She helped to finish the second Liberian civil war in 2003.
She helped women to get power so that they can have equality in life with a man.
she became the first female president in Africa.
She was awarded the Nobel peace prize.

4. Background/Issue
The first Liberian civil war broke out in 1989 and lasted until Lots of men were dragged out in the war and 20 thousand people were killed.

5. The second Liberian civil war began in 1999 and ended in 2003
The second Liberian civil war began in 1999 and ended in Eventually, through this war, more than 250 thousand people died and nearly 1 million people became victims.

6. How she involve in the issue?
She trained about Trauma Healing and Reconciliation Program(THRP) that help for people who have trauma by a war. She felt other’s pain and sorrow, then she decided to change the world.

7. How she solve this problem?
Leymah Gbowee met the President in Liberia, Charles Taylor directly, and she forced him to try to make a peace.
Charles Taylor

8. she insisted that refuse sex with husband who was join in civil war, to make them abandon weapons.
She led a demonstration. Lots of women supposed it and wearing white T-shirts, every day.

9. These affects brought peace to people
When there was a civil war negotiation in Ghana, she led the Liberian women and pushed on attendee until they negotiated.

10. virtue
I impressed by Leymah Gbowee, because she is strong, chastity, and Love.
Because…

11. Physical or mentally powerful
In the beginning, she is strong, because, she fights at the risk of her whole life and she did not give up anytime.
Physical or mentally powerful

12. Being respectful and pure about your body and the others body
Next, she is chastity, because when the
Women was sexually assault, she insisted 'Sex strike’ to protect women’s own body.

13. to have a strong liking for something caring about others
Last her virtue, is love. She was caring about women, because they were distanced. so she protested to government for women’s rights.
to have a strong liking for something caring about others

14. Awards and recognition
2014 Oxfam America Right the Wrong Award
2013 The New York Women's Foundation Century Award
2013 Barnard College Medal of Distinction [
2013 handed a honorary doctorate by Rhodes University
2012 Olympic flag bearer in the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony
2012 Gbowee Peace Foundation Africa is established
2011 Nobel peace prize
2011 University of Massachusetts Lowell Greeley Scholar for Peace Studies
2011 Villanova Peace Award from Villanova University
2011 Alumna of the Year, Eastern Mennonite University
2010 Living Legends Award for Service to Humanity
2010 John Jay Medal for Justice from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice
2010 Joli Humanitarian Award from Riverdale Country School
2009 Gruber Prize for Women's Rights
2009 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award.
2009 "Honor Award for Courageous Commitment for Human Rights of Women" by the Film festival Women's Worlds, TERRE DES FEMMES, Germany.
2008 Women's News Leaders for the 21st Century Award
2007 Blue Ribbon for Peace from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University

15. (1:20~3:30) Nobel Prize 2011: Speech Excerpts By Leymah Gbowee, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Tawakkul Karman