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Where has change ever been clean and nice? It has always been messy and painful.

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Zainab Salbi
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 24
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Bagdad
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Leadership is about encouraging women to break their silence and tell their stories to the world.
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Leadership is not about having the charisma or speaking inspirational words, but about leading with example.
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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.
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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 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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