Journal of International Affairs

"We need to encourage the role of `commandos'--not in a military sense, but in the civil realm. We need a small group of individuals who can operate within institutions but also take personal responsibility for their actions and decisions." Modern...

"... prevention and rebuilding are inextricably linked at the societal level, leading to the conclusion that a formal agreement ending a civil war is meaningless unless coupled with long-term programs to heal the wounded society." The engagement...

"If it's done well, the marginal cost of peacekeeping will yield a greater peace dividend to both the country in conflict and the wider international community." The 1990s could be called the decade of peacekeeping. The number and variety of...

"The hour of Europe in enforcing, keeping and building peace seems to have come and gone ... Europe failed to demonstrate its independence as badly as it failed at everything in the first few years of its Balkan engagement. But that failure has...

"The international business community will increasingly need to promote greater economic inclusion and social justice in its operations, or it will be blamed for contributing to the conditions that lead to violent conflict." It is not a coincidence...

"The international community can and must do better. Rather than thinking in terms of a 5,000-person UN force, the international community should develop capacity to deploy at least 100,000 more troops abroad." Several hundred thousand people...

"... true enforcement [is] not the pretend variety that comes with soldiers in blue berets who have neither the capacity nor the wit to do anything about the breaches of international law occurring around them." At the height of the Sierra Leone...

Interviewed on 20 December 2001 by Shireen Khan Journal: It has been more than a year since the Brahimi Panel report was published. Which recommendations from the report have been implemented? What is your view on the implementation of those ...