Nobel winner Leymah Gbowee wows SMU crowd
Nobel prize winner Leymah Gbowee recently spoke at SMU about anti-violence. Her presentation was hosted by SMU's Embrey Human Rights program and the World Affairs Council.
By Dianne Solis
Three standing ovations this Wednesday night for Nobel Prize winner, author and peacemaker Leymah Gbowee.
At SMU, she told a packed theater that children forced to become soldiers led her to lead Christian and Muslim women to demand an end to Liberia's civil war. "Creating a safe space for our children to achieve their dreams that we could not achieve" she told a young boy in the audience. "That was my motivation."
In anecdote after anecdote, Gbowee leveraged the power of story....