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Zainab Salbi
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: September 24
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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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Women are not just victims they are survivors and leaders on the community-level backlines of peace and stability.
Zainab Salbi
Unfortunately, violence against women is not the only injustice women face globally it is one of the many inequalities that impede the full development of socially excluded women globally.
Zainab Salbi
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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I dont want to be someone in my sixties holding on to a group that I created when I was in my twenties.
Zainab Salbi
Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.
Zainab Salbi
Without women's full inclusion at the decision making table, we cannot have any healthy decision making that is good for men and women alike.
Zainab Salbi
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.
Zainab Salbi
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.
Zainab Salbi
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.
Zainab Salbi
Every woman must own her story otherwise we are all part of the silence.
Zainab Salbi
The single thing all women need in the world is inspiration, and inspiration comes from storytelling.
Zainab Salbi
Leadership is about encouraging women to break their silence and tell their stories to the world.
Zainab Salbi
Working with women survivors of war has taught me that we need to listen to women's perspectives on war in order to understand how to effectively rebuild a country, a community and a family.
Zainab Salbi
Only 1 in 13 participants in peace negotiations since 1992 has been a woman.
Zainab Salbi
The front[line] of wars is increasingly non-human eyes peering down on our perceived enemies from space, guiding missiles toward unseen targets.
Zainab Salbi
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.
Zainab Salbi
Leadership is not about having the charisma or speaking inspirational words, but about leading with example.
Zainab Salbi
If half the society isn't engaged on any number of sectors, success and potential will be limited. In that sense, I do definitely believe there is a growing movement and moment for women's issues.
Zainab Salbi
Women are part of peace keeping troops in countries like Liberia.
Zainab Salbi