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

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

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

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

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, the smell of smoke and fear. Women survivors of war are not the single image portrayed on the television screen, but the glue that holds families and countries together. Perhaps by understanding women, and the other side of war ... we will have more humility in our discussions of wars... perhaps it is time to listen to womens side of history.

I believe that a lot of progress has been achieved to address gender inequality: We have moved from a time where women in the US could not apply for credit card without their husband's signature to a time where women are the owners of their businesses.

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.