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News - 09. December 2011
PRIO hosts Nobel Peace Prize laureate Leymah Gbowee at film screening in Oslo
At Vika Kino in Oslo, PRIO screens the film "Pray the Devil Back to Hell" about Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah Gbowee's mobilization of Liberian women to end the country's civil war. Leymah Gbowee herself will be present, and so will Michelle Bachelet, Executive Director of UN Women; Jonas Gahr Støre, Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs; and the two film makers Abigail Disney and Gini Reticker.
The laureate will appear before the film, at 15:00.
Programme:
Welcome - Kristian Berg Harpviken, Director, PRIO.
Statements by Leymah Gbowee, Jonas Gahr Støre and Michelle Bachelet.
Screening of the film.
Conversation with Gini Reticker and Abigail E. Disney, director and producer of the film, moderated by Helga Hernes, PRIO.
There are still a few seats left - if you would like to attend, please register at http://www.prio.no/Events/Event/?oid=2373235. Admission is free of charge, but you need to register.
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