HIV/AIDS has become much more than a health issue. HIV/AIDS is a development issue, it's a security issue.

Fierce national competition over water resources has prompted fears that water issues contain the seeds of violent conflict.

I think that peacekeeping can do quite a lot, if they are given the right mandate with the commensurate resources to get the job done.

When you have difficult issues on the table for discussion, then sometimes for Africa you may have Burundi or Gambia representing them on the Security Council; and then for Latin America you may have a country like Costa Rica, which is a wonderful country but they don't have the same weight as others from the other regions. And sometimes they get bullied. Sometimes their capitals come under lots of pressure to take a position.

Over time you learn to know a bit more about yourself - you develop a certain amount of self-insight and self-awareness, and you know what you can absorb, and what you cannot; what gets to you and what doesn't. And I observe a lot. I see a lot around me. And over time you also get to understand the nature of man and the environments you are dealing with, and you can't always allow emotions and temper to flare up because you're displeased with something, or you want to change it.

Once you are really challenged, you find something in yourself. Man doesn't know what he is capable of until he is asked.

If tolerance, respect and equity permeate family life, they will translate into values that shape societies, nations and the world.