Young people should be at the forefront of global change and innovation. Empowered, they can be key agents for development and peace.

Nuclear terrorism is still often treated as science fiction. I wish it were. But unfortunately we live in a world of excess hazardous materials and abundant technological know-how, in which some terrorists clearly state their intention to inflict catastrophic casualties. Were such an attack to occur, it would not only cause widespread death and destruction, but would stagger the world economy... [creating] a second death toll throughout the developing world.

These divisions in the international community - the Syrians bear quite a lot of the blame, but we have enabled it by the divisions between us.

If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world's people in the first decades of the new millennium, who will?

Young people - with their dynamism, their energy and their inherent understanding of our interconnected world - have much to teach us. Increased educational attainment, advances in technology and the spread of information have made this generation the best educated, most connected and most informed in history

Peace is never a perfect achievement.

If one is going to err, one should err on the side of liberty and freedom.