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"The Quiet Diplomat" centers on former UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. Along with his family, Secretary General Ban was displaced during the Korean War. The UN Command fought on the side of South Ko…
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"The Quiet Diplomat" centers on former UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. Along with his family, Secretary General Ban was displaced during the Korean War. The UN Command fought on the side of South Korea and forever changed Ban's life, inspiring him to become a man who fought for peace throughout his career. Nearly fifty years later, Ban was selected as the 8th Secretary General of the UN. During ten years (two terms), in one of the toughest jobs in the world, "SG" Ban discovered the challenges of international, UN-led diplomacy in an increasingly splintered world. Globally, war and authoritarianism are on the rise. In this documentary, we see Ban's 'quiet diplomacy' as one tactic to promote multilateral ism at a time when collaboration between countries is a key to our survival. Our film benefits from hours of UN footage, much of it never publicly seen, as well as footage shot by news organizations during a tumultuous decade while Ban led the UN. Chief among the filmmakers' goals is to use this trove, and fresh interviews, to reveal a man many people don't know at all, or think they know. While our approach is not combative, we do not shy from controversy, asking tough questions about what the UN can and should do to handle increasingly difficult global crises, including new wars, while giving Ban the opportunity to assess his accomplishments and failures during his ten years at the UN. Interviewees Include Ban Ki-Moon, 8th Secretary General of the UN Yoo Soon-Taek, his wife Juan Manual Santos, former President of Colombia Mark Malloch Brown, President, Open Society Foundations Beatrice Lindstrom, Senior Clinical Instructor, Harvard Law School Richard Haass, President Emeritus, Council on Foreign Relations Rajon Menon, Spitzer Professor of International Relations, Emeritus, City College of New York Jean Krasno, Lecturer, Dept. of Political Science, CCNY/ Columbia University Lina Khatib, Director, SOAS Middle East Institute Richard Gowan, UN Director, International Crisis Group
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"The Quiet Diplomat" centers on former UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. Along with his family, Secretary General Ban was displaced during the Korean War. The UN Command fought on the side of South Korea and forever changed Ban's life, inspiring him to become a man who fought for peace throughout his career.
Nearly fifty years later, Ban was selected as the 8th Secretary General of the UN. During ten years (two terms), in one of the toughest jobs in the world, "SG" Ban discovered the challenges of international, UN-led diplomacy in an increasingly splintered world. Globally, war and authoritarianism are on the rise.
In this documentary, we see Ban's 'quiet diplomacy' as one tactic to promote multilateral ism at a time when collaboration between countries is a key to our survival. Our film benefits from hours of UN footage, much of it never publicly seen, as well as footage shot by news organizations during a tumultuous decade while Ban led the UN. Chief among the filmmakers' goals is to use this trove, and fresh interviews, to reveal a man many people don't know at all, or think they know.
While our approach is not combative, we do not shy from controversy, asking tough questions about what the UN can and should do to handle increasingly difficult global crises, including new wars, while giving Ban the opportunity to assess his accomplishments and failures during his ten years at the UN. Interviewees Include Ban Ki-Moon, 8th Secretary General of the UN Yoo Soon-Taek, his wife Juan Manual Santos, former President of Colombia Mark Malloch Brown, President, Open Society Foundations Beatrice Lindstrom, Senior Clinical Instructor, Harvard Law School Richard Haass, President Emeritus, Council on Foreign Relations Rajon Menon, Spitzer Professor of International Relations, Emeritus, City College of New York Jean Krasno, Lecturer, Dept. of Political Science, CCNY/ Columbia University Lina Khatib, Director, SOAS Middle East Institute Richard Gowan, UN Director, International Crisis Group.