women as stakeholders, the value of participation, particularly from the lens of post conflict and peacebuilding, or formal peace processes. so, i'd like to start introducing an organization from liberia, the women of liberia mass action for peace, which was a group of women both muslim and christian who were organized to end the violence in the second liberian civil war. a great documentary on them called "pray the devil back to hell," for those of you who have the time and access to track that down. they called for peace talks. in fact, they practically forced president charles taylor to sit down with rebel groups. and then led by lima gobowe, a delegation of these women sat in on -- or rather, staged a sit-in at the peace process in acura ghana, the process that would lead to the acra comprehensive peace agreement signed august 18th, 2003. now, the women were not part of any formal delegation. they did not take formal -- or did not formally participate in the peace process. their role in that moment was to enforce the process itself. in fact, at one point, the women lined up around the buildi