Category: International Diplomat

What does it mean to live a normal life? For generations, the answer seemed fairly simple: establish a career, find a partner, create a family, buy or rent a home, accumulate possessions, and eventually retire. Stability was closely connected to permanence. One home, one community, one predictable path. That model still works for many people. Yet increasingly, people are questioning whether it is the only way to live. Today, some people live in vans or RVs. Others choose tiny…

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The FIFA must now demonstrate through its actions that football’s greatest strength lies not in yielding to political pressure, but in its unique ability to make a positive difference in the world. I have never been a footballer. Yet during nearly twenty years at the United Nations, I witnessed something that profoundly changed the way I see the game: football is far more than a sport. In Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic, I attended a tournament…

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