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Betty Oyella Bigombe Quotes

born 1952

Betty Oyella Bigombe, also known as Betty Atuku Bigombe (born October 21, 1952), served as the Senior Director for Fragility, Conflict, and Violence at the World Bank from 2014 to 2017. She was appointed to that position in June 2014.

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You can subdue people, you can humiliate them, they feel they have no voice, they’ll go underground—it will resurface.

I made up my mind I was going to do everything possible to reach out to the warlords and talk to them, talk them into a peaceful solution.

When you bring a political solution to any kind of violent conflict, then all these other underlying causes are addressed, and therefore, people can start living together in harmony.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Betty Oyella Bigombe (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.