Nobel Peace Prize Winners

• The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman this October.
• Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is the president of Liberia
• Leymah Gbowee is from Liberia, also, and organized the women across ethnic and religious dividing lines
• Tawakkul Karman is from Yemen and played a leading part in the struggle for women's rights
• They were all awarded the prize for non-violent struggle for the saftey of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-bulding work!

1. Why did they feel the urge to help women across the country?
2. Did all three of them meet before the prize?
3. How did they successfully acheive this goal?
4. Did they even acheive this goal?
5. How did Ellen Johnson Sirleaf become the president of Liberia?

• www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/07/johnson-sirleaf-gbowee-karman-nobel
• www.nytimes.com/2011/10/08/world/nobel-peace-prize-johnson-sirleaf-gbowee-karman.html?pagewanted=all
• www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/06/nobel-peace-prize-winner-_n_998563.html#quiz_1614
• www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace

What issue(s) caused this person to take action?

• Ellen contributed because her country had a civil war and she helped in making peace. She has made education compulsurary and free for primary-aged children.
• Leymah served in making peace in 2000 and then later ran a movement with women dressed in white to protest against rape and child soldiers. During the 2003 peace talks, she had a group of hundreds of women and refused to leave until the delagates signed the treaty. She is now the executive director of Women in Peace and Security Network which is an organization that takes place in Liberia, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone to promote peace, literacy, and political involvement.
• Tawakkul founded the Women Journalists Without Chains. "She has been a key figure in Yemen since they began occupying a square in central Sana's in February demanding the end of the Saleh regime."

Was the issue local or global? Explain.

• This situation is more national than local or global. This is because in the question above, Leymah started an organization in Liberia, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone.

How did the person take action?

• They started organizations

What media channels did he or she use to take action? How did he or she use each?

• Newspaper articles, television, and possibly ads.

Answers to your questions:

1. They felt that they needed to help women get rights and keep peace.
2. I do not know
3. By starting organizations
4. yes
5. By election