Hanover — Leymah Gbowee, a Nobel laureate known for her human rights activism in Liberia, will deliver the keynote address at Dartmouth College’s commencement in June.

Gbowee led an interfaith women’s movement against the violence of Liberia’s Second Civil War in the early 2000s, helping to bring combatants to the negotiating table.

She is scheduled to speak to graduating students on June 12 on the college green, administrators announced Wednesday.

Notably, Gbowee and hundreds of other activists in her Christian-Muslim group, Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace, forced the country’s president in 2003, Charles Taylor, to attend peace negotiations. The women formed a human chain, physically blocking Taylor — who has since been convicted of war crimes in international court — from leaving.

For her efforts, Gbowee shared the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize with Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and the Yemeni activist Tawakkol Karman.

Sirleaf, as Wednesday’s release notes, was the main speaker at the college’s 2008 commencement.

Gbowee will receive an honorary doctorate of humane letters on June 12.

George “Skip” Battle, a 1966 graduate and former CEO of Ask.com, will receive the same degree.

Last year, he made a $5 million challenge gift toward renovations to Dartmouth’s lodge on Mount Moosilauke.

Four others will receive honorary degrees at commencement, including Rye Barcott, a military veteran, NGO chief and green investor; Frank Venegas, a philanthropist and entrepreneur; Arati Prabhakar, director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency; and Daniel Yergin, a Pulitizer Prize-winning author.

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