My opinion on who's wrong or who's right has nothing to do with the fact that we have to bring together people who are against each other, to transform antagonism into cooperation.

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.

In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided.

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

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.

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

In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex.