To make progress we have to build a multi-stakeholder process, harnessing the appropriate energies.

I can see the immense capacity of business to give leadership.

Young persons, because of their immaturity, may not fully comprehend the consequences of their actions and should therefore benefit from less severe sanctions than adults. More importantly, it reflects the firm belief that young persons are more susceptible to change, and thus have a greater potential for rehabilitation than adults.

It is people who go through suffering that have an empathy for the suffering of others.

I'm coming to a sense of a women's movement which was extraordinarily important in the struggle for freedom in Ireland and immediately afterwards, but then some of those women who were involved in the movement got involved in representative positions and perhaps some of them got a bit distanced from the grassroots issues. But also the women's movement itself seemed to say, "No, we've got our own government, our own parties in power" and they sat back.

Sharing experience and building public support for the full range of rights is more powerful than legal cases.

When a genocidal killing occurs, as happened in Rwanda, it is not just an internal domestic matter.