When you have imploding nations that are trying to pull themselves out of conflict and get into a reconstituting nation, I am not of the ilk that the first thing you want to do is have democratic elections. What it does is tear everybody apart. There's no consensus there. Everybody is trying to gain power. Be it in Rwanda or be it, as I've seen, in other countries, it's not necessarily the immediate democratic priority. The immediate democratic priority is to educate people on what democracy is.
When I was in Rwanda, the extremist majority could not understand that Jean Chrétien beat Brian Mulroney because Jean Chrétien was from a minority and was elected by a majority. It just could not happen.
With that depth of understanding, the fundamentals of democracy are not there, and the creation of artificial parties—because of power basis, friends, and so on—is divisive. There is a need to reassess whether that is your first priority. I can tell you that when my mandate said I had to bring in a democratic election in two years to a country that had a 100 years of colonial rule, that had 25 years of a dictator, that had three years of a civil war, and that didn't even have a multi-party system, there was no damn way. It only created more stress.