PEACEJAM LIBERIA (PJLIB)
The PeaceJam Foundation (PJF/ PJHQ) is a US-based global youth organization led by Nobel Peace Laureates. It was founded in 1993 by Ivan Suvanjieff and his wife, Dawn Engle. The organization serves as an educational outreach program for Nobel Peace Laureates to youth worldwide.
PeaceJam is hosted in over Fifty (50) Countries worldwide. It started operations in Liberia in 2012 through the 2011 Nobel Peace Laureate Madam Leymah Roberta Gbowee’s foundation, the Gbowee Peace Foundation Africa (GPFA). PeaceJam Liberia (PJLIB) is one of the numerous projects under the Transformative Leadership Initiatives (TLI) Program/ Core Priority Investment Area (CPIA) of the GPFA. The PJLIB hosted this event as the PJLIB Annual Youth Leadership Conference (YLC) to create a generation of young leaders committed to positive change in themselves, their communities, and the world through the inspiration of fourteen (14) Nobel Peace Laureates who passed on the spirit, skills, and wisdom they embody.
Our 7th Annual Youth Leadership Conference
This year’s YLC was held under the theme: “Peace in Action Towards an Inclusive Society” at the Liberia Baptist Women Missionary Union (LBWMU); Baptist Youth Camp Falconer (BYCF) on the Robertsfield Highway.
Madam Leymah R. Gbowee,
2011 Nobel Peace Laureate, GPFA Founder & President
2011 Nobel Peace Laureate Leymah Roberta Gbowee is a Liberian Peace Activist, trained Social Worker, and Women’s Rights Advocate, a Humanitarian, a fierce Advocate for Justice; who speaks Truth to Power Without Fear or Favor, an outspoken Supporter, an Advisor for numerous organizations, a highly sought-after Speaker Internationally with her Speeches to advance Women’s Rights, and Women, Peace & Security (WPS). Madam Gbowee serves as a Guest Lecturer at many prestigious universities around the world. She is the current Executive Director of the Gender, Law, and Transformative Peace Initiative now Institute at the City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law and former Executive Director of the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) Program at the Columbia University’s Earth Institute. She is the Founder and current President of the Gbowee Peace Foundation Africa (GPFA) and Gbowee Peace Foundation Africa-USA (GPFA-USA). She also founded the National Peace & Reconciliation Initiative and is the Co-Founder and former Executive Director of Women, Peace, and Security Network–Africa (WIPSEN-A). Won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011 for her leadership of the Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace (WoLMAP); bringing together Christian and Muslim women in a nonviolent movement that played a pivotal role in ending Liberia’s civil war in 2003 – chronicled in the memoir; “Mighty Be Our Powers”, and in the award-winning documentary, “Pray the Devil back to Hell”.
