Peace enforcement is a much more difficult kind of operation than peacekeeping.

That is where consensus-building begins-with the idea that you have your own truth, but that the negotiator on the other side of the table has his own truth as well.

What we can do as individuals may not be very much on the global scale, but we have to start the change by living as we are teaching.

I think I can regard myself as a political decision-maker.

When the problems in Northern Ireland started, it was not a question of Protestantism or Catholicism, because the Catholic church was the only church at that time-it was a nationalist conflict.

There are many challenges, there are many obstacles; let us try to change the obstacles to advantages.

In international or national crises, there are always questions of lack of confidence. You have to change the minds of the people in order to get results.