Being a leader for me is about having the courage to speak the truth, and live the truth, despite attempts to silence our thoughts, feelings, and pas….

Without women's full inclusion at the decision making table, we cannot have any healthy decision making that is good for men and women alike..

The injustice is that women continue to be the main target of violence both during wartime and peacetime and yet there is still a lack of a public ou….

Every woman must own her story; otherwise we are all part of the silence..

It is the diversity of views that stems from different experiences and different backgrounds that lead to healthy decision-making and not the unified….

It seems to me that violence against women has been tolerated for so long that the world has become numb to it..

Changes don't happen in the world by playing it safe, taking risks is the way to change the world..

Stronger women build stronger nations..

Everything is give and take. The solutions are in the middle not in the extremity of the situation..

Historically speaking, religious and conservative groups always wanted the control over the private sphere that impacts women most, as reflected by f….

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

Everything can be taken from you in a second, but the human spirit is so strong. War can teach you so much about evil, and so much about good..

Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides..

Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land..

The single thing all women need in the world is inspiration, and inspiration comes from storytelling..

Women are not just victims; they are survivors and leaders on the community-level backlines of peace and stability..

I firmly believe today that the only way to stop violence against women is to speak out and refused to be silenced..

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..

War is not a computer-generated missile striking a digital map. War is the color of earth as it explodes in our faces, the sound of child pleading, t….

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 liv….

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 pla….