"The change began in Somalia, where we discovered that we were involved in an operation where there was no peace, so there was no more a peacekeeping operation because there was no peace."

Boutros Boutros Ghali, Egyptian Public Servant

Change, Peace

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"The change began in Somalia, where we discovered that we were involved in an operation where there was no peace, so there was no more a peacekeeping operation because there was no peace."

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"The only way to change the world is to quit thinking it's a job for Superman. Real power lies in your own hands."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"If the tranquillity is killing you, seek for the storm to save your life!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"There are no real start-overs, only start-from-heres."

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"The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American Poet

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"Like birds leaving the dangerous places man must also leave his dangerous ideas!"

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"The fate of every unusual thing is to be a usual thing quickly!"

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"There is nothing so stable as change."

Bob Dylan, American Musician

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"Our only security is our ability to change."

John Lilly, American Scientist

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"I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road."

Stephen Hawking, English Physicist

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"To make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

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"I used to say I never talk about my successor, neither about my predecessor."

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"But at the beginning, our definition of the genocide was what happened to Armenia in 1917 or 1919, it's happened to the Jew in Europe, and we were not realizing - In our point of view, they have not the tools to do a genocide."

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"The real problem was not the troops; the real problem was that only the United States had the infrastructure to do the transport of troops with big planes, and then who will pay?"

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"The fact that you had disruptions in the peace process was not only in Rwanda. We had the same problem in Cambodia, we had the same problem in Mozambique, we had the same problem in Salvador."

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"We were not realizing that, with just a machete, you can do a genocide."

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"A genocide in Africa has not received the same attention that genocide in Europe or genocide in Turkey or genocide in other part of the world. There is still this kind of basic discrimination against the African people and the African problems."

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"We got involved in the Rwanda peace process for the simple reason that there was a decision which was taken by the Security Council, because the troops were in Uganda, and we decided to have a military presence."

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"In Yugoslavia, I'd asked for additional forces too. I even went to meet the French prime minister, and I proposed additional forces... Nobody wanted to send troops."

Troops

"Rwanda was considered a second-class operation; because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind of status quo. They were negotiating, they'd accepted the new peace project, so we were under the impression that everything would be solved easily."

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