Global Peaceheroes

2011 Nobel Peace Prize Winner Leymah Gbowee, Nobel Peace Prize laureate 2011 by Li Grebäck is licensed under CC BY NC ND 2.0. Leymah Gbowee was born February 1, 1972, in Monrovia, Liberia. Her life turned upside down in 1989 at age 17. Liberia’s civil war had begun. She has said the war turned her “

1982 Nobel Peace Prize Winner Alfonso Garcia Robles is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 NL. Alfonso García Robles (pronounced ROBE-lays) was born March 20, 1911, in Zamora, Mexico. As a young person, Robles thought about becoming a priest. He later changed his mind and studied law. He earned his law

Image credit: Martin Ennals Foundation Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera was born April 12, 1980, in Kampala, Uganda. Her father was a prince. He and Kasha’s mother both worked for the Bank of Uganda. As a child, Kasha did not act like other girls. She wore pants to school instead of the expected skirt.

1991 Nobel Peace Prize Winner “Aung San Suu Kyi” by Claude Truong-Ngoc is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. Note: Controversy currently surrounds Aung San Suu Kyi’s failure to publicly condemn the military’s campaign of ethnic cleansing against Rohingya Muslims. As Myanmar’s civilian leader, Suu Kyi