I believe that there is an urgent need to restructure the discussion of war to include the impact it has on women.

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.

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

Since war often enters homes through the "kitchen door," we need to understand women's attempts to keep life going in the face of shortage of food, closing of schools and reduced freedoms.

Women have never been a chief negotiator in any UN-sponsored talks.

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

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 outrage.