Women’s History Month Part 12: Leymah Gbowee: The Liberian Activist Who Helped Lead a Women’s Movement for Peace – Footnotes

Britannica. Leymah Gbowee. Retrieved March 13, 2026 from https://www.britannica.com/biography/Leymah-Gbowee
Gbowee, Leymah. Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War. New York: Beast Books, 2011.
Nobel Prize. Leymah Gbowee – Nobel Peace Prize 2011. Retrieved March 13, 2026 from https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2011/gbowee/facts/
United Nations Women. Women, Peace, and Security. Retrieved March 13, 2026 from https://www.unwomen.org/en/what-we-do/peace-and-security
PBS. Pray the Devil Back to Hell: Women’s Peace Movement in Liberia. Retrieved March 13, 2026 from https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/documentaries/pray-the-devil-back-to-hell/
Council on Foreign Relations. Liberia’s Civil War. Retrieved March 13, 2026 from https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/liberia-civil-war
BBC News. Leymah Gbowee: The Woman Who Helped End Liberia’s War. Retrieved March 13, 2026 from https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-15330442
African Development Bank. Women and Peacebuilding in Africa. Retrieved March 13, 2026 from https://www.afdb.org/en/documents/women-peacebuilding-africa

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