Leymah Gbowee Wins Nobel Peace Prize (Photos)

Leymah Gbowee attends at the The White House Project's 2008 Epic Awards on April 17, 2008 in New York City.

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Producer Abigail Disney hugs activist Leymah Gbowee at the after party for the documentary "Pray The Devil Back To Hell" during the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival.

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Caroline Kennedy, president of the Kennedy Library Foundation stands with Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee after Gbowee was awarded the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award at the Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston.

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Leymah Gbowee on a panel moderated by Christiane Amanpour at The Daily Beast's 2010 Women in the World Summit in New York.

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Leymah Gbowee on a panel moderated by Christiane Amanpour at The Daily Beast's 2010 Women in the World Summit in New York.

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President of John Jay College of Criminal Justice Jeremy Travis presents an award to Leymah Gbowee during the 2010 Justice Awards.

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Meryl Streep, Tina Brown, and Leymah Gbowee celebrate the launch of Women in the World Foundation.

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