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Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War

Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War Paperback - 2013

by Gbowee, Leymah

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From the winner of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize. In a time of death and terror, Gbowee brought Liberia's women together--and together they led a nation to peace. In the process, she emerged as an international leader who changed history.

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  • Title Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War
  • Author Gbowee, Leymah
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Trade Pape
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Beast Books, New York, New York
  • Date 2013-03-26
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GOR007535252
  • ISBN 9780984295197 / 0984295194
  • Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.7 x 5.7 x 0.9 in (22.10 x 14.48 x 2.29 cm)
  • Ages 16 to 11 years
  • Grade levels 11 - 6
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: African
    • Cultural Region: West Africa
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects History, Biography
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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About the author

2011 Nobel Peace Laureate Leymah Gbowee is 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.

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