Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace is a peace movement started by women in Liberia, Africa, thatworked to end the Second Liberian Civil War. Organized by Crystal Roh Gawding and social workers Leymah Gbowee and Comfort M. Freeman, the movement began despite Liberia having extremely limited civil rights. It started with thousands of local women praying and singing in a fish market daily for months. Thousands of Muslim and Christian women from various classes mobilized their efforts, staged silent nonviolence protests that included a sex strike and the threat of a curse.