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?

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.

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.

Changes don't happen in the world by playing it safe, taking risks is the way to change the world.

If half the society isn't engaged on any number of sectors, success and potential will be limited. In that sense, I do definitely believe there is a growing movement and moment for women's issues.

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

Everything can be taken from you in a second, but the human spirit is so strong. War can teach you so much about evil, and so much about good.