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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.

Zainab Salbi

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Zainab Salbi
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 24
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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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Women are not just victims they are survivors and leaders on the community-level backlines of peace and stability.
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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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No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.
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Stronger women build stronger nations.
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Every woman must own her story otherwise we are all part of the silence.
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From an economic perspective, women are treated unfairly: they perform 66 percent of the world's work and produce 50 percent of the food but they only earn 10 percent of the income and own 1 percent of the property.
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Only 1 in 13 participants in peace negotiations since 1992 has been a woman.
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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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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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