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Leadership is about encouraging women to break their silence and tell their stories to the world.

Zainab Salbi

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Zainab Salbi
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 24
Activist
Author
Writer
Bagdad
Encouraging
Leadership
Silence
Break
Tell
Stories
Women
World

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I find it amazing that the only group of people who are not fighting and not killing and not pillaging and not burning and not raping, and the group of people who are mostly — though not exclusively — who are keeping life going in the midst of war, are not included in the negotiating table.
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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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Women still need higher political representation and to be included at decision making tables in all issues in order for solutions that relates from peace to food, to health, to basic stability in the world. We cannot continue to marginalize half of the population in the world in finding sustainable solutions that are good for all.
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Growing up under Saddam's rule, I witnessed many injustices occurring everyday in my country and yet I could not do anything to prevent them.
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Do you know that people fall in love in war and go to school and go to factories and hospitals and get divorced and go dancing and go playing and live life?
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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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Women are part of peace keeping troops in countries like Liberia.
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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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Changes don't happen in the world by playing it safe, taking risks is the way to change the world.
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War is nothing but a microcosm of peace... it shows you life in a more intense way and that's how I continue to live it... for good or bad reasons.
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I believe that there is an urgent need to restructure the discussion of war to include the impact it has on women.
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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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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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Leadership is not about having the charisma or speaking inspirational words, but about leading with example.
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Long-term trauma for women who have survived armed conflict is a haunting reminder that health issues and depression can follow decades after the end of war, but women who hope for healing can and do move forward.
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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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