Lakhdar Brahimi, Veteran UN Envoy and advisor, and former foreign minister to Algeria, speaks at the Skoll World Forum 2010 opening plenary. His talk, called “The Imperative to Cooperate: a Call for Peace,” focuses on his life in conflict and his work in South Africa, Haiti, Sudan, Iraq and Lebanon. “What I have learned in these 20 years in trying to make peace is …that you come across a lot of courage and forgiveness…” He also talks about clinching a ceasefire in 1989 in the Lebanese civil war, and the symbolism of having an airplane land at the airport when it had been closed for more than three years.
