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From joblessness to lack of education and professional skills to sexual and gender-based violence, women face a multi-faceted oppression.

Only 8 percent of peace talks have included women at any level.

Stronger women build stronger nations.

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

I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.

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.