Long-term trauma for women who have survived armed conflict is a haunting reminder that health issues and depression can follow decades after the end of war, but women who hope for healing can and do move forward.

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

Women are not just victims; they are survivors and leaders on the community-level backlines of peace and stability.

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

I don't have a child, so Women for Women is like my child. But I always said I would step down after 20 years. I didn't want to be a 60-year-old woman holding on to something I created when I was 23.

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.

Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.