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Only 1 in 13 participants in peace negotiations since 1992 has been a woman.

Zainab Salbi

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Zainab Salbi
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 24
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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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While women may look different, as some wear suits and others wear saris, or some cover their hair while others wear their hair loose, women need to stand together because they all face the central point of discrimination, although the extremity of which may be different from Kigali to Kabul.
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When war ends, women are the first to pick up the pieces. Where there is no market place, they go door to door. When homes are destroyed, mothers and daughters haul stones to rebuild or plow fields together.
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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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Where has change ever been clean and nice? It has always been messy and painful.
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Leadership is not about having the charisma or speaking inspirational words, but about leading with example.
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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.
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As women, we must speak out, speak up, say no to our inheritance of loss and yes to a future of women-led dialogue about women's rights and value.
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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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Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.
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Women have never been a chief negotiator in any UN-sponsored talks.
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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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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.
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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Since a very young age, my mother made sure to tell me about the plight of women... As she raised my awareness about women's issues, she also made sure to ingrain in me the importance of being strong and independent and not to let anybody define me by their images of what women should be.
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It seems to me that violence against women has been tolerated for so long that the world has become numb to it.
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Only 8 percent of peace talks have included women at any level.
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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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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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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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