New UN Chief Urges Preventive Diplomacy ‘Surge’

New United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who has said conflict prevention will be his top priority, laid out his vision Tuesday for re-tuning the organization’s work from largely responding to conflicts back to preventing them.   “We must rebalance our approach to peace and security,” Guterres told a packed chamber of the U.N. Security Council for his first appearance since taking office on January 1. “For decades, this has been dominated by responding to conflict; for...

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