Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War
Autor Leymah Gbowee Cu Carol Mithersen Limba Engleză Paperback – 25 mar 2013 – vârsta de la 10 ani
As a young woman, Leymah Gbowee was broken by the Liberian civil war, a brutal conflict that destroyed her country and claimed the lives of countless relatives and friends. Propelled by her realization that it is women and girls who suffer most during conflicts, she found the courage to turn her bitterness into action.
She helped organize and then lead the Liberian Mass Action for Peace, which brought together Christian and Muslim women in a nonviolent movement that engaged in public protest, confronted Liberia's ruthless president and rebel warlords, and even held a sex strike.
With an army of women, Gbowee helped lead her nation to peace-and became an international leader who changed history, won the Nobel Peace Prize for her work, and fiercely advocates for girls' empowerment and leadership.Mighty Be Our Powersis the gripping chronicle of a journey from hopelessness to liberation that will touch all who dream of a better world.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780984295197
ISBN-10: 0984295194
Pagini: 272
Ilustrații: colour illustrations
Dimensiuni: 157 x 233 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Ediția:First Trade Paper Edition.
Editura: PublicAffairs
Colecția Beast Books
ISBN-10: 0984295194
Pagini: 272
Ilustrații: colour illustrations
Dimensiuni: 157 x 233 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Ediția:First Trade Paper Edition.
Editura: PublicAffairs
Colecția Beast Books
Notă biografică
2011
Nobel
Peace
LaureateLeymah
Gboweeis
a
Liberian
peace
activist,
trained
social
worker
and
women's
rights
advocate.
She
currently
serves
as
Executive
Director
of
the
Women,
Peace
and
Security
Program
at
the
Earth
Institute
at
Columbia
University
and
is
the
founder
and
current
President
of
the
Gbowee
Peace
Foundation
Africa,
the
founding
head
of
the
Liberia
Reconciliation
Initiative,
as
well
as
co-founder
and
former
Executive
Director
of
Women
Peace
and
Security
Network
Africa
(WIPSEN-A).
She
is
also
a
founding
member
and
former
Liberian
Coordinator
of
Women
in
Peacebuilding
Network/West
Africa
Network
for
Peacebuilding
(WIPNET/WANEP).
She
travels
internationally
to
advocate
for
human
rights
and
peace
&
security.
Ms. Gbowee's leadership of the Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace - which brought together Christian and Muslim women in a nonviolent movement that played a pivotal role in ending Liberia's civil war in 2003 - is chronicled in her memoir, Mighty Be Our Powers, and in the award-winning documentary, Pray the Devil Back to Hell. Ms. Gbowee holds an M.A. in Conflict Transformation from Eastern Mennonite University (Harrisonburg, VA), and a Doctor of Laws (LLD) honoris causa from Rhodes University in South Africa and the University of Alberta in Canada.
Ms. Gbowee advises numerous organizations working for peace, women's rights, youth, and sustainable development, and has held distinguished fellowships at Barnard College and Union Theological Seminary. In 2016, Ms. Gbowee was awarded the Lifetime Africa Achievement Prize (LAAP) for Peace in Africa by the Millennium Excellence Foundation. Ms. Gbowee serves as a Sustainable Development Goals Advocate for the United Nations and as a Member of the World Refugee Council. In 2017, Ms. Gbowee was selected by the United Nations Secretary General to serve as a Member of United Nations Secretary-General's High Level Advisory Board on Mediation. In 2018, she was appointed to the Gender Equality Advisory Council Secretariat for Canada's G7 Presidency.
Leymah is the proud mother of eight children.
Ms. Gbowee's leadership of the Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace - which brought together Christian and Muslim women in a nonviolent movement that played a pivotal role in ending Liberia's civil war in 2003 - is chronicled in her memoir, Mighty Be Our Powers, and in the award-winning documentary, Pray the Devil Back to Hell. Ms. Gbowee holds an M.A. in Conflict Transformation from Eastern Mennonite University (Harrisonburg, VA), and a Doctor of Laws (LLD) honoris causa from Rhodes University in South Africa and the University of Alberta in Canada.
Ms. Gbowee advises numerous organizations working for peace, women's rights, youth, and sustainable development, and has held distinguished fellowships at Barnard College and Union Theological Seminary. In 2016, Ms. Gbowee was awarded the Lifetime Africa Achievement Prize (LAAP) for Peace in Africa by the Millennium Excellence Foundation. Ms. Gbowee serves as a Sustainable Development Goals Advocate for the United Nations and as a Member of the World Refugee Council. In 2017, Ms. Gbowee was selected by the United Nations Secretary General to serve as a Member of United Nations Secretary-General's High Level Advisory Board on Mediation. In 2018, she was appointed to the Gender Equality Advisory Council Secretariat for Canada's G7 Presidency.
Leymah is the proud mother of eight children.