Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much for having me. I appreciate that.

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you. Again, my sense is that in all of these, whether we're talking about the first two pillars or talking about prevention in the broad sense that I'm talking about it, there are many things that can be done in supporting either countries or the regions to build the capac

Foreign Affairs committee  --should not be touched. I think it's important for our societies to really dig into what our culture says in order to reinforce universal standards with traditional cultural variance, which I consider to be critically important in sustaining a society that is rooted. Now, why

Foreign Affairs committee  To answer your question, let me just give a brief historical background. I co-chaired a task force in Washington that was to develop a U.S. Sudan policy for the incoming administration, which turned out to be the Bush administration. When we started, most people were saying tha

Foreign Affairs committee  Well, I might begin with the very last statement you just made about cultural acceptance. I have to tell you, as someone who has studied my traditional society extensively, the rules of warfare in traditional society were very stringent. There are many who would say that they a

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes, I entirely agree with you, and that's why I emphasize that instead of seeing this as a horrible problem out there that we are afraid to touch, we bring it down and see it as a crisis of management of diversities, a crisis of management of differences, whether these differenc

Foreign Affairs committee  I think we already have all the three pillars at work in the Congo. We have a government that lacks the capacity, but of course is charged with its national duty. We have an international community that is helping the government. And we have a force that by UN standards has a ver

Foreign Affairs committee  Absolutely, and I'm glad you raised that question. In my own work, I have emphasized the role of subregional organizations and regional organizations, and I'm glad to say that the approach I have adopted for my mandate is being well received in Africa. I have addressed the Peac

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you. In a sense you could say that the responsibility to protect is the result of the evolution of the notion of sovereignty as responsibility. Some studies have documented the link between what we try to do at Brookings and the responsibility to protect. Close to three y

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. It's always a great pleasure to be back in Canada. Someone asked me the other day--having been a special representative of the Secretary-General on internally displaced persons, and now on the prevention of genocide--why they always give me suc