{"id":2546,"date":"2011-09-09T16:12:51","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T16:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/?p=2546"},"modified":"2024-04-22T14:39:13","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T18:39:13","slug":"leymah-gbowee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/2011\/09\/09\/leymah-gbowee\/","title":{"rendered":"Van from Swarthmore to see Leymah Gbowee at Villanova"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, September 15, <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/wiki\/Leymah_Gbowee\">Leymah Gbowee<\/a> is being honored with the <a href=\"http:\/\/campusevents.villanova.edu\/vuevents\/EventList.aspx?view=EventDetails&amp;eventidn=6660&amp;information_id=20058&amp;type=&amp;rss=rss\">2011 Peace Award at Villanova<\/a>, and the Peace and Conflict Studies Program and Lang Center are arranging a van to take Swarthmore folk. Please email Prof. George Lakey at glakey1 to reserve a seat (first-come first-served basis).\u00a0 We will meet the van at the McCabe Library turnaround at 7:00. Be prompt!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">**********<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/09\/Gbowee.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2547\" title=\"Gbowee\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/09\/Gbowee.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"341\" \/><\/a>The Center for Peace and Justice Education presents:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>THE ADELA DWYER\u2013ST. THOMAS OF VILLANOVA <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>2011 PEACE AWARD <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">to<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>LEYMAH GBOWEE (<em>Peace Activist)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Ms. Gbowee organized Christian and Muslim women of Liberia to carry out peaceful protests which ultimately helped to bring about the end of the Liberian Civil War.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cMighty Be Our Powers:\u00a0 Women Making Peace in Africa\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lecture and Presentation of Award<\/p>\n<p>THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2011<\/p>\n<p>DRISCOLL AUDITORIUM ~ Room 132 at 7:30 PM<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>CO-SPONSORED BY THEOLOGY &amp; RELIGIOUS STUDIES, ETHICS, AFRICANA STUDIES,INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES, SOCIOLOGY, POLITICAL SCIENCE and GENDER &amp; WOMEN\u2019S STUDIES<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"475\" height=\"271\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bi3nvH_Po5E\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whyy.org\/cms\/radiotimes\/2011\/09\/15\/leymah-gbowee-liberian-peace-hero\/\">Leymah Gbowee appeared on WHYY&#8217;s program, Radio Times<\/a>, on September 15, 2011. Listen here:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, September 15, Leymah Gbowee is being honored with the 2011 Peace Award at Villanova, and the Peace and Conflict Studies Program and Lang Center are arranging a van to take Swarthmore folk. Please email Prof. George Lakey at glakey1 to reserve a seat (first-come first-served basis).\u00a0 We will meet the van at the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/2011\/09\/09\/leymah-gbowee\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Van from Swarthmore to see Leymah Gbowee at Villanova<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2546"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175425010,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2546\/revisions\/175425010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}