And Europe, to a large extent,
failed in that investment
in the past few decades.
BG: Question: You are stepping down
from your job at the end of the year,
after 10 years.
If you look back at 2005,
when you entered that office
for the first time, what do you see?
AG: Well, look:
In 2005, we were helping
one million people go back home
in safety and dignity,
because conflicts had ended.
Last year, we helped 124,000.
In 2005, we had about 38 million people
displaced by conflict in the world.
Today, we have more than 60 million.
At that time, we had had, recently,
some conflicts that were solved.
Now, we see a multiplication
of new conflicts
and the old conflicts never died:
Afghanistan, Somalia,
Democratic Republic of Congo.
It is clear that the world today
is much more dangerous than it was.
It is clear that the capacity
of the international community
to prevent conflicts
and to timely solve them,
is, unfortunately, much worse
than what it was 10 years ago.