Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Addresses the Future of African Leadership
On February 18th, AC4 and the World Leaders Forum hosted Nobel laureate Leymah Gbowee for a talk. Check out the write-up in Columbia News:
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Addresses the Future of African Leadership
March 6, 2013
When Liberian activists held a sit-in, their whole nation stood up and noticed.
Activist Leymah Gbowee helped mobilize a large number of women to pray and protest for peace after years of Liberian civil war. In one notable action in 2003, she led a delegation of women to nearby Ghana, where women protesters attired in white t-shirts sat arm in arm in front of a hotel meeting room where peace negotiations were underway. The moral leverage of the sit-in did not by itself stop the war and end the regime of Liberian strongman Charles Taylor, who resigned months later, but as Gbowee writes in her autobiography, “what we did marked the beginning of the end.”
Gbowee appeared recently at a Columbia University World Leaders Forum, where her unwavering voice and compelling life story—from social worker to internationally renowned peace activist—captivated the audience. The event, filling the Low Library rotunda, was co-sponsored with the Earth Institute’s Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict and Complexity… [Read the full article]
I live in Port Elizabeth, South Africa..to live in this country and to witness and experience first hand the results, the effects of a Corrupt South African Leadership.. it’s like living in a constant state of shock! The degradation of the Education department, the closure of Public Hospitals, it is a Human Rights Issue! I notice that South Africa and possibly Africa as a whole (I stand corrected) does not experience ‘Natural’ weather Disaster like the rest of the world… our Governments are a Destructive Force that We are having to reckon with.