Liberia: Ellen Discusses Liberian Women's Involvement in Peacemaking

1 October 2012

"Women continue to play a major role in the efforts for peace. Women continue to be those peace builders; continue to promote the environment that enables all citizens to search for peace, maintain peace and use the security that peace brings to be able to join in the processes of development that will touch the lives and change the condition of humankind," President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has said.

According to an Executive Mansion Dispatch from New York, President Sirleaf made the observation when she delivered a keynote address at the International Peace Institute's African Leaders Series, Consolidating a Future in Peace.

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