Liberia: How a Nobel Laureate Turned Fear into Fortitude
PRESS RELEASE Boston — Before Leymah Gbowee was able to make significant social change in Liberia, lead the women’s movement there in the early 2000s, and earn the designation of Nobel laureate, she had to break down walls. Not literal walls made of brick and mortar, but walls constructed using fear and vitriol. Walls that led those in her home country to see one another as things, rather than people. “When we are persistently told that someone from this group is evil and you act on it, you build a…
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