While women may look different, as some wear suits and others wear saris, or some cover their hair while others wear their hair loose, women need to stand together because they all face the central point of discrimination, although the extremity of which may be different from Kigali to Kabul.

Living in war is a co- existence with death.

Where has change ever been clean and nice? It has always been messy and painful.

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

Women still need higher political representation and to be included at decision making tables in all issues in order for solutions that relates from peace to food, to health, to basic stability in the world. We cannot continue to marginalize half of the population in the world in finding sustainable solutions that are good for all.

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

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.