{"id":10128,"date":"2011-12-12T16:32:26","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T21:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=10128"},"modified":"2012-03-27T11:44:55","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T15:44:55","slug":"nobel-laureate-helps-spark-women%e2%80%99s-program-at-emu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2011\/nobel-laureate-helps-spark-women%e2%80%99s-program-at-emu\/","title":{"rendered":"Nobel Laureate Helps Spark Women\u2019s Program at EMU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/nobel_prizes\/peace\/laureates\/2011\/gbowee-lecture_en.html\">Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech<\/a> on Dec. 10, 2011, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/peacebuilding\/leymah-gbowee\/\">Leymah Gbowee<\/a> called on women around the world \u201cto unite in sisterhood to turn our tears into triumph, our despair into determination and our fear into fortitude.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gbowee, the leader of a women\u2019s movement that helped end 14 years of warfare in Liberia in 2003, earned a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/cjp\/grad\/\">master\u2019s degree in conflict transformation<\/a> from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/cjp\/\">Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University<\/a> (EMU) in 2007.<a href=\"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2011\/12\/nobel-laureate-helps-spark-women%e2%80%99s-program-at-emu\/oslo-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10130\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-10130\" src=\"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/is\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2011\/12\/Oslo-2-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2011\/12\/Oslo-2-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2011\/12\/Oslo-2.jpg 611w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn many societies where women used to be the silent victims and objects of men&#8217;s powers, women are throwing down the walls of repressive traditions with the invincible power of non-violence,\u201d Gbowee told listeners at the Nobel Peace award ceremony in Oslo, Norway, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/president\/\">EMU president Loren Swartzendruber<\/a> in row 27.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWomen are using their broken bodies from hunger, poverty, desperation and destitution to stare down the barrel of the gun. This prize has come at a time when ordinary mothers are no longer begging for peace, but demanding peace, justice, equality and inclusion in political decision-making.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Swartzendruber said he found Gbowee\u2019s speech to be \u201cinspiring and passionate.\u201d His host in Norway, international peace scholar Peter Wallensteen of Sweden, felt similarly, calling it \u201cpowerful.\u201d Gbowee asked for a moment of silence for women who have recently died while working for peace, including <a href=\"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/2011\/09\/dekha-ibrahim-abdi-peacebuilder-colleague-friend\/\">Dekha Abdi<\/a> of Kenya.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2011\/12\/nobel-laureate-helps-spark-women%e2%80%99s-program-at-emu\/oslo-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10131\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10131\" src=\"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/is\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2011\/12\/Oslo-3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2011\/12\/Oslo-3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2011\/12\/Oslo-3.jpg 625w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Gbowee and Abdi last met when they joined 18 other women peacebuilders from nine countries in June 2011 to discuss whether EMU should host an educational program tailored to women working for justice and peace around the world. As a Kenyan-Muslim woman of Somali ethnic origin, Abdi was known for her peace skills and interventions throughout East Africa. She was a former student and instructor at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/cjp\/pti\/spi\/\">EMU\u2019s Summer Peacebuilding Institute<\/a> under its Center for Justice and Peacebuilding (CJP).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn collaboration with CJP graduates and partners, we have determined that women peacebuilders will indeed benefit from a program focused on the distinctive needs, skills and strengths of women,\u201d said CJP executive director Lynn Roth. \u201cWe will be launching this program in our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/cjp\/pti\/spi\/\">2012 Summer Peacebuilding Institute<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Also attending the ceremony from EMU was Joshua Mensah, a sophomore, who is Gbowee&#8217;s first-born child.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In her Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech on Dec. 10, 2011, Leymah Gbowee called on women around the world \u201cto unite in sisterhood to turn our tears into triumph, our <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2011\/nobel-laureate-helps-spark-women%e2%80%99s-program-at-emu\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"more-link\">... read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">about Nobel Laureate Helps Spark Women\u2019s Program at EMU<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":10129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[266,5583,14184,12503,5623,12537,12499],"tags":[13805,10067,6069,10080,17234,8510,5727,17235],"feature":[],"class_list":["post-10128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-campus-community","category-campus-guests","category-cjp","category-special-programs","category-star","category-spi","tag-dekha-ibrahim-abdi","tag-leymah-gbowee","tag-loren-swartzendruber","tag-lynn-roth","tag-ma-in-conflict-transformation","tag-nobel-peace-prize","tag-office-of-the-president","tag-spi"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - 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