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Peacemaking and mediation have been at the center of my activities, and indeed of my life, for the last 20 years at least. When people ask me what lessons I have learned, I generally say, “When one is engaged in a complicated mediation, making mistakes is unavoidable, but one can avoid making the same mistakes again and again. Better make new ones each time … and learn from each one.”
The lecture was held at the American University of Beirut on January 21, 2010, and edited in July 2015.
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Brahimi, L. (2016). Making and Keeping the Peace: Reflections on UN Experiences in the Middle East and Afghanistan. In: Khouri, R.G., Makdisi, K., Wählisch, M. (eds) Interventions in Conflict. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137530820_2
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