Children are our future and if we use them in battle, we are destroying the future. We must reclaim them, every one of them, one at a time.

I can't think of a 30- or 40-year-old who can behave like Mugabe. They wouldn't even know where to begin, and given their own educational exposure, I think it will be very positive for Africa.

literacy is at the heart of sustainable development

We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face.

On this International Day of Peace, let us dare to imagine a world free of conflict and violence

Sometimes in peacekeeping operations you show force in order not to use force - people realise that there's a pushback and there's a solid force there that's not going to be pushed around, that sometimes helps.

Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.