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Zainab Salbi Biography

Zainab Salbi (Arabic: زينب سلبي; born 1969) is a humanitarian, media host, author, and founder and former CEO (1993-2011) of Washington-based Women for Women International.

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Leadership is about encouraging women to break their silence and tell their stories to the world.

Break, Silence, Stories, Tell, Women, World

I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.

America, Choice, Choices, Grew, Injustice

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.

Absence, Kids, Processes, School, War

Unfortunately, violence against women is not the only injustice women face globally; it is one of the many inequalities that impede the full development of socially excluded women globally.

Development, Face, Faces, Inequalities, Violence

Believe in your passions and act on them.

Act, Believe, Believe In You, Passion, Passions

From joblessness to lack of education and professional skills to sexual and gender-based violence, women face a multi-faceted oppression.

Faces, Lack, Professional, Skills, Violence

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.

Human, Strong, Taken, Teach, War

Since war often enters homes through the "kitchen door," we need to understand women's attempts to keep life going in the face of shortage of food, closing of schools and reduced freedoms.

Enters, Home, Reduced, School, Shortage, War

War is nothing but a microcosm of peace. . . it shows you life in a more intense way and that's how I continue to live it. . . for good or bad reasons.

Intense, Nothing, Peace, Shows, War, Way

Leadership is not about having the charisma or speaking inspirational words, but about leading with example.

Charisma, Example, Inspirational, Leadership, Leading, Words

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.

Backgrounds, Different Experiences, Diversity, Experiences, Healthy, Views

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

Change, Inspirational, Playing, Risk, Safe, World

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

Alliances, Collaboration, Conflict, Life, Like, Lines

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.

Decision, Full, Healthy, Men, Table, Women

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

Included, Level, Levels, Peace Talks, Percent, Talks

The injustice is that women continue to be the main target of violence both during wartime and peacetime and yet there is still a lack of a public outrage.

Continue, Injustice, Lack, Target, Violence, Women

Historically speaking, religious and conservative groups always wanted the control over the private sphere that impacts women most, as reflected by family law and women's access to resources and mobility. And often secular groups traded this for economic incentives and trade.

Economic, Impact, Law, Religious, Speaking

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

Believe, Engaging, I Believe, Leadership, Shared, Should

Since a very young age, my mother made sure to tell me about the plight of women. As she raised my awareness about women's issues, she also made sure to ingrain in me the importance of being strong and independent and not to let anybody define me by their images of what women should be.

Independent, Mother, Strong, Women, Young

Working with women survivors of war has taught me that we need to listen to women's perspectives on war in order to understand how to effectively rebuild a country, a community and a family.

Country, Effectively, Order, Perspectives, Survivors, War

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