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We are missing the stories of Violet, who, despite surviving genocide in the church massacre, she kept on going on, burying bodies, cleaning homes, cleaning the streets.
We are missing stories of women who are literally keeping life going in the midst of wars.
Well, the subject of difficult negotiation reminds me of one of my favorite stories from the Middle East, of a man who left to his three sons, 17 camels.
Stories matter; as an anthropologist, I know that.
Stories are what we use to transmit knowledge.
That's what we tell here at TED, we tell stories.
Stories are the key.
Growing up in a multicultural environment, we had African students in the house, and I learned about their stories, so different backgrounds, dependency on imported know-how, goods, services, exuberant cultural diversity.
But I'm not here to share these stories about these two things exactly.
I was really amazed by all the stories that started flooding in.
People I interacted with daily, worked with, was friends with, family members that I had known a long time, had never shared with me their own stories.
And I just remember feeling all these stories came out of the woodwork, and I felt like I happened upon this secret society of women that I now was a part of, which was reassuring and also really concerning.
The thoughts, memories and stories that a scene like this might evoke for humans.
So, digging more deeply into this, a few years ago I began working on helping computers to generate human-like stories from sequences of images.
The problem with these stories is that they show what the data shows: women systematically underestimate their own abilities.
I collect stories; that's what I do.
And maybe stories are just data with a soul.
And when you ask people about connection, the stories they told me were about disconnection.
My one year turned into six years: Thousands of stories, hundreds of long interviews, focus groups.
In fact, I did it first in a four-day, very intensive data analysis, where I went back, pulled the interviews, the stories, pulled the incidents.
So one-third of it reprises the stories of Biblical figures like Abraham, Moses, Joseph, Mary, Jesus.
Our leaders barrel into wars, telling themselves happy stories about cakewalks and welcome parades.
And just when you think these stories are fading into history, and that we've gotten over them, they pop up in the strangest places.
Not only do we continue to tell and retell the same tired stories, but we are now doing so with a frenzy and a fury that, frankly, verges on camp.
We badly need some new stories.
We need stories that replace that linear narrative of endless growth with circular narratives that remind us that what goes around comes around.
So we need new stories, new heroes and new tools.
And compassion is unleashed in wider and wider circles by signs and stories, never by statistics and strategies.
Our traditions have always known this, and that is why they have always cultivated stories at their heart and carried them forward in time for us.
Stories like this, signs like this, are practical tools in a world longing to bring compassion to abundant images of suffering that can otherwise overwhelm us.
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