Every woman must own her story; otherwise we are all part of the silence.

The front[line] of wars is increasingly non-human eyes peering down on our perceived enemies from space, guiding missiles toward unseen targets.

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

Women are part of peace keeping troops in countries like Liberia.

My message to the world is that until we recognize that peace is not just the absence of war but the revival of life on the "backlines," where women are keeping kids in school, caring for the sick and injured, and daily negotiating space for the continuation of critical life processes of this nature, we're going to continue to miss the point.

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

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