{"id":1759,"date":"2016-04-12T11:48:58","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T18:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/?p=1759"},"modified":"2016-04-12T11:48:58","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T18:48:58","slug":"unitednations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/2016\/04\/unitednations\/","title":{"rendered":"United Nations personnel system needs radical overhaul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/UNLogo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1580\" src=\"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/UNLogo-300x173.jpg\" alt=\"UNLogo\" width=\"300\" height=\"173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/UNLogo-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/UNLogo.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I only just found out about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/03\/20\/opinion\/sunday\/i-love-the-un-but-it-is-failing.html?_r=4\" target=\"_blank\">this excellent piece in the <em>New York Times<\/em> in March by Anthony Banbury<\/a>, former United Nations assistant secretary general for field support. I can&#8217;t believe I&#8217;m finding out about it only now.<\/p>\n<p>I could not agree with it more.<\/p>\n<p>An excerpt:<\/p>\n<p><em>the United Nations is filled with smart, brave and selfless people. Unfortunately, far too many others lack the moral aptitude and professional abilities to serve. We need a United Nations led by people for whom \u201cdoing the right thing\u201d is normal and expected.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/03\/20\/opinion\/sunday\/i-love-the-un-but-it-is-failing.html?_r=4\" target=\"_blank\">Please read it<\/a>. It would take a monumental push by many people to reform the UN, especially the horrific human resources system, but it&#8217;s got to happen or, truly, the organization is doomed.<\/p>\n<p>I speak as a former UN employee and sometimes consultant. I love the UN too much NOT to share this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I only just found out about this excellent piece in the New York Times in March by Anthony Banbury, former United Nations assistant secretary general for field support. I can&#8217;t believe I&#8217;m finding out about it only now. I could not agree with it more. An excerpt: the United Nations is filled with smart, brave [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19],"tags":[289,1281,670],"class_list":["post-1759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-supporting-people-a-community-a-cause","tag-management","tag-reform","tag-united-nations"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fFJB-sn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1760,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759\/revisions\/1760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}