Professional accountants should use that influence to encourage the companies they serve to think long term and integrate sustainable development goals into their accounting, such as by including a natural capital account, which I have heard is gaining ground.

The status quo cannot work.

To go to war without the Security Council will not be in conformity with the Council.

Education is, quite simply, peace-building by another name. It is the most effective form of defense spending there is.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

One has to learn from history. Quite frankly, it is almost impossible to have a sense of vision without a sense of history. If history is learned, then it doesn't have to repeat itself over generations.

For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right.