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Nobel Laureate Leymah Gbowee Outlines Rewards and Struggles of Promoting Peace in Ubben Lecture

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"Dedicating your life to peace is one of the most beautiful things, but it's one of the most difficult things," 2011 Nobel Peace Prize recipient Leymah Gbowee told an audience at DePauw University tonight.  Gbowee, who was honored for her activism to promote women's rights and peace in her native Liberia, described her "journey to empowerment" in a Timothy and Sharon Ubben Lecture.  A standing room only crowd of more than 450 people filled Meharry Hall in historic East College for her speech, "Dedicating...

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