Story highlights Gayle Tzemach Lemmon: The chances for securing stability and building peace grow when women are included. She is the author of "Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield." And in an era of partisan rancor in which precious little wins over both Republicans and Democrats, legislation pushing to put one group in particular at the negotiating table managed to win bipartisan support: Women. The chances for securing stability and building peace grow when women are included. But despite their presence on the front lines of extremism, peace talks have stubbornly excluded women.

Source: CNN October 29, 2017 13:18 UTC