Kate, we'd love to hear your entry into this field.

Thank you very much, Roxane, and to Beyond Border Scotland for giving me the opportunity to tell my story.

I sit here today, I'm not speaking in an abstract policy language, but you're hearing from a person with lived experience.

And my entry into the field was not accidental like hers, but I guess it was an inspiration.

I grew up in northern Uganda during the brutal conflict between the government of Uganda and the Lord's Resistance Army.

And this war did not only claim lives, but it also redefined what survival meant.

My community was displaced into internally displaced persons camps.

I suspect we maybe know what the answer is, so not just why do you think that happens, but how can that shift start to take place that women are included in an equitable position when negotiations are taking place and when states and constitutions are being rebuilt? Thanks.