Kofi Annan Quotes About Conflict

Quotes about: Conflict

• As I travel around the world, people think the only place where there is potential conflict [over] water is the Middle East, but they are completely wrong. We have the problem all over the world.

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  Thinking, Water, People

• Poverty devastates families, communities and nations. It causes instability and political unrest and fuels conflict.

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  Family, Community, Political

• Fierce national competition over water resources has prompted fears that water issues contain the seeds of violent conflict.

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  Issues, Water, Competition

• ... the long-lasting humanitarian impact of these inhuman weapons continues to deny communities the opportunity to rebuild long after the end of the conflicts.

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  Opportunity, Impact, Long

• Terrorism constitutes a direct attack on the values the UN stands for: the rule of law; the protection of civilians; peaceful resolution of conflicts; and mutual respect between people of different faiths and cultures.

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  Law, People, Peaceful

• In an age of interdependence, global citizenship - based on trust and sense of shared responsibility - is a crucial pillar of progress. At a time when more than one billion people are denied the very minimum requirements of human dignity, business cannot afford to be seen as the problem. Rather, it must work with governments and all other actors in society to mobilize global science, technology and knowledge to tackle the interlocking crises of hunger, disease, environmental degradation and conflict that are holding back the developing world.

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  Responsibility, Technology, Government

• The number one goal in resolving a conflict is to make sure both sides maintain their self-esteem. You don't hit a man on the head when you've got your fingers between his teeth.

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  Self Esteem, Men, Numbers

• Under international law, the responsibility for protecting civilians in conflict falls on the belligerents. Under military occupation, responsibility for the welfare of the population falls on the occupiers.

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  Military, Fall, Responsibility

• UN peacekeeping operations are now increasingly complex and multi-dimensional, going beyond monitoring a ceasefire to actually bringing failed States back to life, often after decades of conflict. The blue helmets and their civilian colleagues work together to organize elections, enact police and judicial reform, promote and protect human rights, conduct mine-clearance, advance gender equality, achieve the voluntary disarmament of former combatants, and support the return of refugees and displaced people to their homes.

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  Home, Rights, Blue

• From this vision of the role of the United Nations in the next century flow three key priorities for the future: eradicating poverty, preventing conflict and promoting democracy.

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  Keys, Priorities, Vision

  Nobel lecture, Oslo, Norway, December 10, 2001.

• Sometimes when you take a tough action against one side in the conflict, they see you as part of the conflict and they attack you.

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  Sides, Action, Tough

• Democracy is, in essence, a form of non-violent conflict management. If war is the worst enemy of development, healthy and balanced development is the best form of conflict prevention.

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  War, Essence, Worst Enemy

• On this International Day of Peace, let us dare to imagine a world free of conflict and violence

  Kofi Annan

  World, Violence, Conflict

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