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.
With an army of women, won the nobel peace prize for her work, Gbowee helped lead her nation to peace-and became an international leader who changed history, and fiercely advocates for girls' empowerment and leadership. She helped organize and then lead the liberian mass action for Peace, confronted Liberia's ruthless president and rebel warlords, which brought together Christian and Muslim women in a nonviolent movement that engaged in public protest, and even held a sex strike.
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This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa's First Woman President
Washington post from liberian president ellen johnson sirleaf—Africa’s first elected female president—comes an inspirational memoir about her improbable rise to international prominence, her fight for political freedom, and her unwavering determination to rebuild Liberia in the wake of civil war.
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The Radical King King Legacy Book 11
The response of the radical king to our catastrophic moment can be put in one word: revolution—a revolution in our priorities, a reinvigoration of our public life, a reevaluation of our values, and a fundamental transformation of our way of thinking and living that promotes a transfer of power from oligarchs and plutocrats to everyday people and ordinary citizens.
Arranged thematically in four parts, The Radical King includes twenty-three selections, curated and introduced by Dr. King as being every bit as radical as malcolm X“The radical King was a democratic socialist who sided with poor and working people in the class struggle taking place in capitalist societies.
As west writes, “although much of america did not know the radical King—and too few know today—the FBI and US government did.
The Moral Imagination: The Art and Soul of Building Peace
As founding director of the conflict transformation program and institute of Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University, the Basque Country, he has provided consultation and direct mediation in a range of situations from the Miskito/Sandinista conflict in Nicaragua to Somalia, Northern Ireland, and the Philippines.
This new book represents his thinking and learning over the past several years. Conflict professionals must envision their work as a creative act - an exercise of what Lederach terms the "moral imagination. ". His influential 1997 book Building Peace has become a classic in the discipline.
Madame President: The Extraordinary Journey of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Sirleaf’s personality shines throughout this riveting biography. The highs and lows of sirleaf’s life are filled with indelible images; from imprisonment in a jail cell for standing up to Liberia’s military government to addressing the United States Congress, from reeling under the onslaught of the Ebola pandemic to signing a deal with Hillary Clinton when she was still Secretary of State that enshrined American support for Liberia’s future.
Best books of 2017 selection by * the washington post * new york post * the harrowing, leader of the liberian women’s movement, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, but triumphant story of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, and the first democratically elected female president in African history. When ellen johnson sirleaf won the 2005 liberian presidential election, she demolished a barrier few thought possible, obliterating centuries of patriarchal rule to become the first female elected head of state in Africa’s history.
. Madame president is the inspiring, from a victim of domestic violence to a political icon, often heartbreaking story of Sirleaf’s evolution from an ordinary Liberian mother of four boys to international banking executive, from a post-war president to a Nobel Peace Prize winner.
The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood
Helene grew up at Sugar Beach, a twenty-two-room mansion by the sea. She reported from every part of the globe—except Africa—as Liberia descended into war-torn, third-world hell. In 2003, a near-death experience in Iraq convinced Helene that Liberia—and Eunice—could wait no longer. Eunice, a bassa girl, suddenly became known as “Mrs.
The coopers and the entire Congo class were now the hunted, shot, being imprisoned, tortured, and raped. At the university of north carolina at chapel Hill she found her passion in journalism, eventually becoming a reporter for the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. They left Eunice behind. A world away, Helene tried to assimilate as an American teenager.
It was also an african childhood, filled with knock foot games and hot pepper soup, heartmen and neegee. Her childhood was filled with servants, flashy cars, a villa in Spain, and a farmhouse up-country.
What Do We Know about Civil Wars?
R. Hartzell, cullen hendrix, Jacob Kathman, Christopher Linebarger, T. Since world war ii, civil wars have replaced interstate wars as the most frequent and deadly form of armed conflict globally. Diehl, andrew enterline, scott gates, Nils Petter Gleditsch, Kristian Skrede Gleditsch, Erika Forsberg, Caroline A.
Prorok, idean Salehyan, Lee J. Seymour, benjamin smith, Megan Shannon, David Sobek, Clayton L. Thyne, henrik Urdal, Joseph K. David mason, erik melander, Sara McLaughlin Mitchell, Alyssa K. Demeritt, Karl DeRouen Jr. Paul F.
Fethullah Gulen: A Life of Hizmet
Unbowed: A Memoir
. When maathai founded the green belt movement in 1977, focused on the empowerment of women, she began a vital poor people’s environmental movement, that soon spread across Africa. Persevering through run-ins with the kenyan government and personal losses, and jailed and beaten on numerous occasions, Maathai continued to fight tirelessly to save Kenya’s forests and to restore democracy to her beloved country.
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Keeping Hope Alive: One Woman--90,000 Lives Changed
In 2010, Dr. Together, they have saved tens of thousands of lives in her hospital, while providing an education to hundreds of displaced children. Abdi was kidnapped by radical insurgents, who also destroyed much of her hospital, simply because she was a woman. She inspired her daughters, Deqo and Amina, to become doctors.
. The moving memoir of one brave woman who, healthy, along with her daughters, 000 of her fellow citizens safe, has kept 90, and educated for over 20 years in Somalia. Since 1991, and aid groups fled, famine struck, when the Somali government collapsed, she has dedicated herself to providing help for people whose lives have been shattered by violence and poverty.
Abdi's story of incomprehensible bravery and perseverance will inspire readers everywhere.
How Mass Atrocities End: Studies from Guatemala, Burundi, Indonesia, the Sudans, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Iraq
. Given the brutality of mass atrocities, do to prevent such violence and hasten endings? But this question skips a more fundamental question for understanding the trajectory of violence: how do mass atrocities actually end? This volume presents an analysis of the processes, it is no wonder that one question dominates research and policy: what can we, decisions, who are not at risk, and factors that help bring about the end of mass atrocities.
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