Rebeca Grynspan: “The UN has become an institution reluctant to take risks, it must return to the center of the conflict”
The candidate for UN Secretary-General bets at the WIP on a leading role for the institution in armed conflicts and on the depoliticization of humanitarian space
Rebeca Grynspan is seeking to take on "the most difficult job in the world," according to the first person to hold the position, Norwegian Trygve Lie. Grynspan aims to be the first woman to lead the United Nations (UN) Secretariat and is actively campaigning for the role. She has stated, "The United Nations is more necessary than ever," in an interview with Marc Bassets, the deputy director of Opinion at EL PAÍS, during the first day of the third edition of World in Progress (WIP), an international forum organized by the PRISA group in Barcelona.
However, Grynspan admitted that "the lessons of the past have been blurred" and that we are in a moment where efforts for peace are at a low level in terms of effectiveness. The candidate to succeed António Guterres has advocated for reforming the UN to make it closer to conflicts, more agile, and more capable of aligning with other organizations.
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