Media release: Nobel Peace Prize winners
Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory congratulates winners
7 October 2011
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
From all of us at the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory we would like to congratulate the three winners of the Nobel Peace Prize, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee and Yemeni Activist Tawakkul Karman.
Of course President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has a special affinity with the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, as in 2008 she gave the 6th Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture at which she raised critical social issues which required the attention of the African continent and the world at large. As our Founder said at the 6thAnnual Lecture: “And if a ninety-year-old may offer some unsolicited advice on this occasion, it would be that you, irrespective of your age, should place human solidarity, the concern for the other, at the centre of the values by which you live. There is still too much hatred, division, conflict and violence in our world here at the beginning of the twenty-first century.”
We greatly value the contributions of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman in striving for a conflict-free world.
Sello Hatang, Spokesperson, Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory
