{"id":626167,"date":"2022-04-27T14:52:49","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T14:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.un.org\/feed\/view\/en\/audio\/2022\/04\/1117042"},"modified":"2022-04-27T14:52:49","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T14:52:49","slug":"prevention-and-peacebuilding-a-crucial-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/04\/27\/prevention-and-peacebuilding-a-crucial-investment\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Prevention and peacebuilding\u2019 \u2013 a crucial investment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe can\u2019t afford not to invest in prevention and peacebuilding\u201d \u2013 that\u2019s the view of newly-minted UN Assistant Secretary-General for Peacebuilding Support, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/peacebuilding\/content\/press-release-new-asg\">Elizabeth Spehar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with UN News, she gave the example of the effectiveness of the Peacebuilding Fund in the Gambia, where UN agencies have supported nationwide consultations on truth and reconciliation. One beneficiary testified that Gambians \u201cnow aspire to live in peace in this country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Spehar spoke at length to Liz Scaffidi, about the critical importance of building peace and her role in making that happen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/feed\/view\/en\/audio\/2022\/04\/1117042\">UN News<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe can\u2019t afford not to invest in prevention and peacebuilding\u201d \u2013 that\u2019s the view of newly-minted UN Assistant Secretary-General for Peacebuilding Support, Elizabeth Spehar.<br \/>\nIn an interview with UN News, she gave the example of the effectiveness of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1397,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626167"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1397"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":626168,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626167\/revisions\/626168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}