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

Working with women survivors of war has taught me that we need to listen to women's perspectives on war in order to understand how to effectively rebuild a country, a community and a family.

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

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

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

Believe in your passions and act on them.

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.