If governments were kind, they'd realize that conficts are resolved and wars prevented not by armies but by ordinary people.

I flew aeroplanes, parachuted, walked on my own across the Himalayas - you name it; if it was dangerous, I did it.

I have a little mantra: My fear grows fat on the energy I feed it. And if it grows very big, it probably happens.

If fear grows fat on the energy you feed it, you have to talk it down.

We need to learn and to show others that there are tried and tested, powerful ways of containing and resolving conflict which do not require the use of force.

Dialogue is a non-confrontational communication, where both partners are willing to learn from the other and therefore leads much farther into finding new grounds together

More and more individuals worldwide are realizing that war does not solve conflict, nor resolve long-standing cycles of violence. As more of those who have this understanding communicate it to policy-makers and more particularly, start implementing it in their own lives and localities, change will start to happen.