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Women are part of peace keeping troops in countries like Liberia.

Zainab Salbi

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Zainab Salbi
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 24
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Liberia
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Everything is give and take. The solutions are in the middle not in the extremity of the situation.
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Stronger women build stronger nations.
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Believe in your passions and act on them.
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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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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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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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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.
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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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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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Leadership is about encouraging women to break their silence and tell their stories to the world.
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Passionately enjoy life!
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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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I have come to understand that in order to effectively advance women's rights, we need to galvanize a global women's movement.
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My message to the world is that until we recognize that peace is not just the absence of war but the revival of life on the backlines, where women are keeping kids in school, caring for the sick and injured, and daily negotiating space for the continuation of critical life processes of this nature, we're going to continue to miss the point.
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I don't have a child, so Women for Women is like my child. But I always said I would step down after 20 years. I didn't want to be a 60-year-old woman holding on to something I created when I was 23.
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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.
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