Nobel Prize Recipient/Women's Rights Activist to Speak at IUPUI: Live Stream Available

Leymah Gbowee

A Nobel Peace Prize recipient will discuss peace and women’s rights in West Africa during a guest lecture this week at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.

Leymah Gbowee, 2011 co-recipient of the Nobel Prize, will discuss “Women, Peace and Reconciliation in West Africa” from 2:30 to 4 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012, in the Wynne Courtroom of Inlow Hall, the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law building.

All public seats have been filled for this event. Live streaming will be available at:
http://www.indiana.edu/~video/stream/liveflash.html?filename=gbowee_presentation.
 

Gbowee, founder of the Liberian Mass Action for Peace, along with Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and Yemeni activist Tawakkol Karman, were the joint recipients of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize.

The documentary Pray the Devil Back to Hell chronicles Gbowee’s leading role in ending Liberia’s Second Civil War. The peace activist, who is based in Accra, Ghana, is the executive director of the NGO Women Peace and Security in Africa (WIPSEN-Africa), and heads the newly established reconciliation process in her native Liberia.

For additional information, go to: http://indylaw.indiana.edu/ .
 

Updated 2-14-2012.