For women, underemployment and unemployment are a major problem. She advocated that older women should mentor younger women. Zofia Kuratowska, the Deputy Speaker of the Senate of Poland, pointed out that women are underrepresented in governments not only in demographic terms, but also in terms of their role in society and in the struggle for freedom and democracy. Eugenia Piza Lopez, the Policy and Advocacy Manager of Mexico and member of International Alert, discussed women's changing experience in war. Current wars are mostly within state borders and civilians are the majority of casualties, with women bearing the brunt.
Factions are male dominated and often revolve around ethnic and cultural identities.
Women's experience is reflected in their solutions and negotiation process. This has been evidenced in El Salvador, Angola and Rwanda where women have brought different ideas to the peace process and are challenging the existing paradigms. This gives them a unique viewpoint to define the problems around peace-building, identify priorities for conflict management and resolution, and work across divided lines to find solutions. She suggested the creation of regional women's early warning and peace monitoring bodies. The dialogue covered a range of problems and proposed solutions.