SMALL BOOK ABOUT A GREAT WOMAN Bertha von Suttner was a leader of the 19th century peace through law movement, and the first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. She is credited with inspiring Nobel to create the prize. Exactly 100 years after the opening of the Peace Palace in 1913, a bronze statue of Bertha von Suttner was unveiled in the entrance hall. The first woman in the gallery of honor was welcomed with tremendous applause. Leymah Gbowee, the most recent female recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2013, warmly addressed the first woman who has been awarded the Prize. To her, Bertha was the mother of the peace movement, a woman striving for peace, nonviolence, and women’s rights, just like herself, out of personal commitment. She has been honored and besmirched, and sometimes even slightly forgotten during the last century, even though the perspective of women on war and peace has proven to be so valuable in terminating conflicts and in reconciliation.