As a foreign minister, I have to respect the authority to look after the best interest of the child is, as always, in my country like in India, with the parents and the family. But in extreme cases, the situation is open for the child protection authority to intervene. Jonas Gahr Store Read Quote
As foreign minister of Norway, I learnt how natural changes provoked by climate change are creating new sources of political instability. Jonas Gahr Store Read Quote
Extremist perspectives win sympathy and recruits because they offer narratives that claim to identify deep injustices and enemies. Jonas Gahr Store Read Quote
Nature is good at connectivity. The impact of diverse human activities is observed and absorbed throughout nature. Everything is linked. Nature has no problem with coherence. Ecosystems react with their own logic. Jonas Gahr Store Read Quote
Open debate is our strongest tool in standing up to extremism. The far more dangerous avenue is to force extremist ideas underground, where they can fester without competition. Jonas Gahr Store Read Quote
This paradigm of the war on terror, connecting all kinds of armed resistance around the globe in one huge ideological framework, as a new ideology at a stage in history when most of the major ideologies are gone, does not reflect the facts on the ground. Jonas Gahr Store Read Quote
My impression, having been in the Norwegian government for several years, is that taking a child into care is an extremely serious decision which is really taken as a last resort, when the situation warrants it, for the well-being of the children. Jonas Gahr Store Read Quote
