...sometimes heated context, personalities, the politics and how all these intersect in the inspiring and maddening place that is the United Nations.

In my classes, I tell my students stories about how I watched the principles of communication play out in the General Assembly, the Security Council or in hushed and secret meetings in other UN chambers. They seem to enjoy these reflections, some no doubt imagining themselves someday working at that grand building in New York City. It is just a shame, though, that most of the time I am using the United Nations as an example of what not to do.

I was a speechwriter for the Israeli Government at the United Nations over a particularly tumultuous period...

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