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

When war ends, women are the first to pick up the pieces. Where there is no market place, they go door to door. When homes are destroyed, mothers and daughters haul stones to rebuild or plow fields together.

Do you know that people fall in love in war and go to school and go to factories and hospitals and get divorced and go dancing and go playing and live life?

I believe that leadership acts should be manifested by engaging in external work that can be observed and shared with everyone else.

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.

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

Believe in your passions and act on them.