Edward de Bono Quotes

it much more conduceth to Peace to prevent brawles from arising, than to appease them being risen

it's a disgrace for the international community that we have allowed so many conflicts to become frozen, and we are not making a serious effort to solve them.

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.

You can educate people on how to preempt their own conflict.

Well, the oil, the oil spot, if you will, is a, is a term in counterinsurgency literature that connotes a peaceful area, secure area. So what you're trying to do is to always extend that, to push that out.

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

Preventing a war is tantamount to winning a war.

The only foreign policy advice I heard from China was when they said to Sudan, 'Don't go back to war.' That's all they said. They didn't push anything else.

It might be useful to be able to predict war. But tension does not necessarily lead to war, but often to peace and to denouement.

There has not been a war in South America for fifty years, and I have every confidence that the countries of Central and South America are deeply in earnest in the maintenance of peace.

I think that black Africa is extremely terrifying. Black Africa can become a maelstrom of warring tribes without the outside world needing to feel the need to do anything about it.

If we examine the Hague Convention carefully, we see that it considers the offer of good offices a duty of every nation. In other words, such offers should be made whenever a dispute becomes critical and threatens to explode into war.

So the first thing you need to do about conflict is to prevent it, and the best way of preventing it is by dealing with the question of poverty.

Disarmament of itself does not produce peace or security. Only removing the source of conflict does.

The UN is ultimately going to be judged on its ability in conflict resolution and conflict prevention.

Peacemaking and peacekeeping should run in parallel.

We have to develop preventive diplomacy.

I have done all I can to prevent wars. All my life I've been dedicated to preventing just what has happened today.

Conflicts between nations will continue to arise. The real issue is whether they are to be resolved by force, or by resort to peaceful methods and procedures, administered by impartial institutions.

One should not maintain a dispute.

India is a country that has no direct interests in some areas of global conflict. It has very good relations with countries in conflict or countries facing difficult security situations, and I believe Indian diplomacy is very well received. India is a bridge-builder, an honest broker, and a messenger of peace.

Sustaining Peace is happening. But it is the exception - not the norm.

It is far easier and more effective - and not just in terms of cost - to prevent conventional conflicts than to intervene after an eruption of violence.

Diplomacy is essential if we are to find peaceful resolutions in times of tension.

The Amity Established this place as a safe house. No conflict allowed." "The Amity will have trouble enforcing that policy," says Marcus. "How do you stop conflict without conflict?