{"id":45403,"date":"2020-10-13T10:00:53","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T14:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/?p=45403"},"modified":"2021-02-03T15:13:01","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T20:13:01","slug":"a-message-to-bu-students-from-ban-ki-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2020\/10\/13\/a-message-to-bu-students-from-ban-ki-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"A Message to BU Pardee School Students from Ban Ki-moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"750\" height=\"421\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p1j2N_m2h0s\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/\">Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future<\/a>, an affiliate center of the Pardee School of Global Studies, recently concluded its &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2020\/09\/30\/the-world-after-coronavirus-pardee-center-launches-video-series\/\">World After Coronavirus<\/a>&#8221; (#WorldAfterCorona) video series, which featured interviews with global leaders on the post-COVID world. The final interview of the series was with Ban Ki-Moon, the 8th Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN), about the future of the UN after COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>Following his interview, Ki-Moon offered words of wisdom to the students at Boston University regarding their role in crafting a better future for the world.<\/p>\n<p>An excerpt:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Despite&#8230;great challenges and uncertainties, young people like you \u2013 students of Boston University \u2013 you have an incredible opportunity to help construct a brighter future for your communities, your country and our planet&#8230;I hope you will think big, think globally, be a global citizen&#8230;Only you can change this world for a better world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Despite these great challenges and uncertainties, young people like you&#8230;have an incredible opportunity to help construct a brighter future for your communities, for your country, and for our planet.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17823,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8414,8434],"tags":[11660,11480,10653,8554,11651],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45403"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17823"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47296,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45403\/revisions\/47296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}