The first thing that you need to deal with is the issue of equity and poverty.

Too many of the conflicts which are caused today are caused by the problems that emerge from people who are in poverty.

But when someone is on a winning horse, and everything looks wonderful, it's very hard as an outsider to persuade them something is wrong.

We have three billion people, half the world's population today, living on less than two dollars a day.

Kosovo is an agricultural economy particularly. It also has a couple of good power stations that exported power, and the big cooperative which they had there in the mining field is no longer functioning. So there is no immediate employment available for people in the industrial sector. All that needs to be going. But you will remember that it is part of Yugoslavia, and much of its trade and its dependence was on Serbia and Montenegro.

It's going to be possible to rebuild the physical aspects of Kosovo. I was there recently, and you get a sense of the destruction of homes. Infrastructure and the countryside is relatively untouched. I think the biggest problem will not be the physical reconstruction; it will be the emotional and mental reconstruction.

So the first thing you need to do about conflict is to prevent it, and the best way of preventing it is by dealing with the question of poverty.