"In the five decades since the United Nations was first established, our world has changed almost beyond recognition. To adapt our approaches to preventing and resolving conflict, we must improve our understanding of what it takes to build and maintain peace. That is why, in the next generation, we have a mission to stimulate large numbers of students on every continent to reflect seriously on human conflict, its causes and its consequences, and ways to prevent its deadly outcome."
-- Secretary-General Kofi Annan