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Changes don't happen in the world by playing it safe, taking risks is the way to change the world.

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Zainab Salbi
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 24
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It is the diversity of views that stems from different experiences and different backgrounds that lead to healthy decision-making and not the unified experiences and unified views.
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Historically speaking, religious and conservative groups always wanted the control over the private sphere that impacts women most, as reflected by family law and women's access to resources and mobility. And often secular groups traded this for economic incentives and trade.
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I don't have a child, so Women for Women is like my child. But I always said I would step down after 20 years. I didn't want to be a 60-year-old woman holding on to something I created when I was 23.
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One year of the world’s military spending equals 700 years of the U.N. budget and equals 2,928 years of the U.N. budget allocated for women.
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Since war often enters homes through the kitchen door, we need to understand women's attempts to keep life going in the face of shortage of food, closing of schools and reduced freedoms.
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I believe that a lot of progress has been achieved to address gender inequality: We have moved from a time where women in the US could not apply for credit card without their husband's signature to a time where women are the owners of their businesses.
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Women are part of peace keeping troops in countries like Liberia.
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I learned that victims come in all image - some raped, some witnessing an act of violence, some losing loved ones. I learned that the solutions come by both listening to the people impacted by the crisis and by learning from historical experiences in other places.
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Everything can be taken from you in a second, but the human spirit is so strong. War can teach you so much about evil, and so much about good.
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Leadership is about encouraging women to break their silence and tell their stories to the world.
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I dont want to be someone in my sixties holding on to a group that I created when I was in my twenties.
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Only 1 in 13 participants in peace negotiations since 1992 has been a woman.
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Women are not just victims they are survivors and leaders on the community-level backlines of peace and stability.
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I believe that leadership acts should be manifested by engaging in external work that can be observed and shared with everyone else.
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Women have never been a chief negotiator in any UN-sponsored talks.
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Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.
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It appears easier to talk about protecting women than it is to fully include women at all decision-making levels in peace talks and post-conflict planning.
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I firmly believe today that the only way to stop violence against women is to speak out and refused to be silenced.
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I by no means intend to simplify the challenges women face in any culture. Women are marginalized in all cultures in my opinion, some in more extreme ways than others.
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Living in war is a co- existence with death.
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