How Women Can End War

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Four years ago, when producers Abigail Disney, Pamela Hogan, and Gini Reticker hatched the idea for Women, War, and Peace, the five-part documentary series currently airing on PBS, they couldn’t possibly have predicted quite how perfect their timing would be. Just three days before the first episode premiered, one of their real-life heroines, Leymah Gbowee, was among three women to win the Nobel Peace Prize for her work shepherding peace into a war-ravaged region of sub-Saharan Africa.

Fittingly, it was Gbowee who inspired the series itself. Disney was in the midst of making Pray the Devil Back to Hell, her award-winning documentary—and second episode of the PBS series—about the group of Liberian women, led by Gbowee, whose peaceful protests helped bring about the end of a 15-year civil war, ushered the brutal dictator Charles Taylor out of power, and paved the way for Ellen Johnson Sirleaf—one of the other recipients of this year’s Nobel—to take the helm as Africa’s first female head of state...cont'd

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/10/18/leymah-gbowee-among-heroines-of-new-pbs-series-on-women-as-war-s-equal-opportunists.html



PBS - Women, War and Peace
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/women-war-and-peace/


Pray The Devil Back To Hell (DVD)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002R0HT3M/ref=pd_1ctyhuc__bxgy_01_01
Can also be viewed free online:
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/women-war-and-peace/features/pray-the-devil-back-to-hell/


Mighty Be Our Powers (book)
http://www.amazon.com/Mighty-Be-Our-Powers-Sisterhood/dp/0984295151/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1319057707&sr=1-1