Women in the Arab world have a rich history in their active participation in political change from the Algeria revolution against the French occupation to the most recent revolution in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya among other countries. The question is not their participation. Their question is the incorporation of women's voices fully in the new definitions of the countries where change has happened.

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

Living in war is a co- existence with death.

One year of the world’s military spending equals 700 years of the U.N. budget and equals 2,928 years of the U.N. budget allocated for women.

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

I have come to understand that in order to effectively advance women's rights, we need to galvanize a global women's movement.

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.