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Through my years of working on war and peace in Africa, I have learned that there are solutions to some of the greatest human rights challenges, and we all can be a part of those solutions.

One of the things that a president needs in the face of genocide is resolve.

The disagreeable reality for those who believe in human rights is that there are some occasions - and Iraq may be one of them - when war is the only real remedy for regimes that live by terror.

The biggest road block to action on genocide and other human rights crimes is ignorance. Most people just don't know that such things are happening, and often, if they have a vague idea they are happening, there is a feeling that there is nothing that can be done to stop these crimes.

We can make a difference. We can save lives. We can stop the genocide.

There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement.

If the political will is there, we can solve anything.

Here we will solve with laws and dollars, problems that too many people around the world still must solve with violence and civil war.

It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended.

As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.