Pray the Devil Back to Hell

Preparing for the Liberia trip, watched this remarkable movie. The women of Liberia brought about peace through non-violence.

This war raged while Americans focused on the debate over whether to war in Iraq.

Meanwhile, women of Liberia, market women, Christian women joining with Muslim women, organized to push for peace after years of fighting that ravaged the population. Leymah Gbowee says she found her calling to leadership in a dream.
The women brought about the peace through their non-violent action on the streets of Monrovia, pushing the peace talks into formation in Ghana, finally forcing the delegates at the peace talks to come to an agreement.
Leymah Gbowee has said that these women, mothers, grandmothers, aunts, sister's, many of them refugees from their own villages, believed they could succeed in bringing about the peace by not accepting a victim's role.
Leymah Gbowee has stayed involved, working for women's rights from Ghana. Among many international awards, she and the women of Liberia received the Profiles in Courage award. The women of Liberia have stayed involved as well, electing a president, Africa's first woman president. Ms. Gbowee wants to see the women maintaining their power in government beyond President Johnson-Sirleaf's terms.

The film has won awards at film festivals around the world. Abigail Disney has shown the film to women's groups in conflict situations around the world, where she says audiences see parallels to their situations, identify with Leymah Gwobee and end up with position statements that may lead to more changes.