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When women participate in peace-making and peace-keeping, we are all safer and more secure.

Elevating the status of women is our best path to peace, justice, and prosperity on a global scale.

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

I said we needed to organize women around the world to push peace.

Too often the desire for peace has been expressed by women while the stewardship of the mechanisms which are used to attempt to secure peace in the short and medium term are dominated by male decision-making structures and informal arrangements. This must change.

Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view.

I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.

We like to think of women as peacemakers, not purveyors of violence.

Women are called upon to defend every bit of progress we have made against particularly virulent attack. But we must also hold out a vision, put forth a positive agenda of what women need and want and then move forward toward that dream.

I think that women are peacemakers by genetics, because we are the ones who stay at home and because we are the ones who suffer with the aftermath of war.