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Girls have to get much more interested in public matters, in international matters, and [they must] affirm themselves by making frank, open, honest commitments in the area of the protection of women’s rights, in the area of politics and in all other sectors. Sometimes when women are questioned on this or that subject, we are less informed than the boys.

— Catherine Samba-Panza Roundtable at GW (2016)

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Violence is in the mind and on the hearts of our [Central African Republic] population for many, many years. The process of peace and pacification is a work that requires long breath, like a marathon.

Roundtable at GW (2016)

“The process of peace and pacification is a work that requires long breath, like a marathon”

Roundtable at GW (2016)

Women fight for peace, Samba-Panza says, because of their intimate experience of giving life.

Roundtable at GW (2016)

“If I had acted like a head of state, that would have never worked”

Roundtable at GW (2016)

”Women had confidence in my leadership. I couldn’t stand by and do nothing while my country fell into chaos,”

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