{"id":6855,"date":"2013-11-17T18:10:20","date_gmt":"2013-11-17T07:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.socialpolicyconnections.com.au\/?p=6855"},"modified":"2013-11-18T10:02:40","modified_gmt":"2013-11-17T23:02:40","slug":"the-critical-importance-of-diplomacy-in-maintaining-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialpolicyconnections.com.au\/?p=6855","title":{"rendered":"The critical importance of diplomacy in maintaining peace."},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Bill Frilay.<\/h1>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6856\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6856\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialpolicyconnections.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/un-courtyard_2_opt.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-6856  \" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" alt=\"un courtyard_2_opt\" src=\"http:\/\/www.socialpolicyconnections.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/un-courtyard_2_opt-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.socialpolicyconnections.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/un-courtyard_2_opt-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.socialpolicyconnections.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/un-courtyard_2_opt-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.socialpolicyconnections.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/un-courtyard_2_opt-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.socialpolicyconnections.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/un-courtyard_2_opt-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/www.socialpolicyconnections.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/un-courtyard_2_opt-55x55.jpg 55w, https:\/\/www.socialpolicyconnections.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/un-courtyard_2_opt.jpg 342w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6856\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">UN Courtyard: Horseman Fighting the Dragon Bomb, by Dan Nguyen, flickr cc<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If diplomacy had been effective 100 years ago, the tragedy of the Great War and the consequent Second World War could have been averted. And, arguably, it was diplomacy from an unexpected source that helped pull the world back from the brink of the Cuban Crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Recently on this website, I reported good news emanating from the UN or from the major powers. These were :<\/p>\n<p>(a)\u00a0\u00a0 The UN resolution committing the Security Council to address the illicit transfer of small arms and weapons<\/p>\n<p>(b)\u00a0\u00a0 The Syrian agreement to give up chemical weapons<\/p>\n<p>(c)\u00a0\u00a0 The thawing of relations between the US and Iran<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialpolicyconnections.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/bfrilay-importance-of-diplomacy-nov13.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Read Bill&#8217;s article in full.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Frilay. If diplomacy had been effective 100 years ago, the tragedy of the Great War and the consequent Second World War could have&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":""},"categories":[36,58,55],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialpolicyconnections.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6855"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialpolicyconnections.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialpolicyconnections.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialpolicyconnections.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialpolicyconnections.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6855"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialpolicyconnections.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6861,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialpolicyconnections.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6855\/revisions\/6861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialpolicyconnections.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialpolicyconnections.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialpolicyconnections.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}