Liberian social worker Leymah Gbowee is one of three Nobel Peace Prize winners.

According to this CNN article, Gbowee led a women’s movement that protested the use of rape and child soldiers in Liberia’s Civil War. She mobilized hundreds of women to pressure delegates to sign a peace treaty in 2003.

Gbowee shared the prize with Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who was elected after the civil war ended, and Yemeni activist and journalist Tawakkul Karman.

The three women accepted the prize Saturday during a ceremony in Oslo, Norway.

Gbowee, who earned an associate’s degree in social work from the Mother Patern College of Health Sciences in Monrovia and a master’s degree in conflict transformation from Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Va., said her work has just begun.

“There is no time to rest until our world achieves wholeness and balance, where all men and women are considered equal and free,” Gbowee said.

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