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The Nobel Committee has awarded this year's Nobel Peace Prize to three women for working to promote democracy, security and women's rights. Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Liberian activist Leymah Gbowee and Yemeni opposition leader Tawakkul Karman will split the $1.5 million prize. Nobel Committee Chairman Thorbjoern Jagland praised the women for "their nonviolent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work."  Paula Daeppen, FAWCO UN Rep met Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Dr. Elizabeth Rehn early 2002 at a committee on the Status of Women meeting in Geneva.  Dr Rehn was invited to deliver a keynote speech about their work at the 2003 FAWCO conference in Stockholm, and FAWCO helped promote their then soon to be released book, Women, War, Peace: The Independent Experts’ Assessment on the Impact of Armed Conflict on Women and Women’s Role in Peace-Building.