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Reasons Revisited

Bridging the divides: the world of modern diplomacy

Reasons Revisited

Geoff Lloyd

Society & Culture, Government, News, Politics

4.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Hello! Every day, remarkable acts of diplomacy are happening around the world to bring us one step closer to cooperation on our biggest conflicts and challenges. But how much do we really know about what goes on behind closed doors? And what are the ingredients of a successful negotiation? We speak to climate diplomacy legend and friend of the pod, Christiana Figueres, about her leadership on one of the most extraordinary diplomatic feats: the 2015 Paris Agreement. Gabrielle Rifkind, a specialist in conflict resolution, tells us about the importance of finding the ‘human face’ of conflict. Finally, the EU’s former top diplomat Catherine Ashton talks to us about the highs and lows of her time on the job, and why all of us are diplomats without even knowing it.


Plus: We’ve talked sandwiches, we’ve talked toasters. Have a guess at which gadget has Ed bought for himself this week...


Guests

Christiana Figueres, co-founder of Global Optimism and former Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC 2010-2016 (@CFigueres / @OutrageOptimism


Gabrielle Rifkind, Specialist in conflict resolution and Director of the Oxford Process (@OxfordProcess)


Catherine Ashton, Former High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and author of And then what? Inside stories of 21st century diplomacy 


More information

Buy a copy of Catherine's book

Listen to Outrage and Optimism, Christiana and Tom Rivett-Carnac's podcast

Learn more about the Oxford Process

'We need to rethink how we do diplomacy,' Guardian Article, Catherine Ashton

Learn more about the Paris Agreement, the legally binding treaty on climate change



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0:00.0

This episode is brought to you by the Financial Fairness Podcast, which I've recently become a

0:05.1

subscriber to. If you like this, I'm sure you're going to enjoy it. It is excellent conversations

0:11.6

about the issues that affect living standards. I listened to a great one yesterday,

0:16.3

with Chief Executive of the Trustle Trust, Emma Revy, who's working to stop UK hunger and poverty.

0:21.9

And she's incredible obviously. Now of course, people needing to turn to food banks because

0:26.6

of financial hardship is deeply troubling. But it was also really inspiring to hear about how

0:32.8

they meet that need with compassion and also Emma's thoughts on what needs to change.

0:38.4

And that is what is at the heart of every episode and of the Financial Fairness Trust itself,

0:44.9

improving living standards for people on low to middle incomes in the UK. Now like I said,

0:49.8

I'm certain that if you enjoy our podcast, you'll really love it and I'm just looking down

0:54.2

the feed. And they have excellent guests to real heavyweights, like economist Miyata Fanbola,

1:01.2

former chancellor, Alistair Darling, award-winning money journalist Paul Lewis. Basically,

1:06.4

you get to hear some serious brains on why our economy works the way it does and how we can

1:11.6

create a fairer society. Listen and subscribe to Financial Fairness Podcast.

1:25.1

This is Reasons to Be cheerful with Ed Millivand and Jeff Lloyd.

1:29.6

Well, hello. Hello. We've never discussed sandwich toasters.

1:33.1

Like a brevel. Yeah. I don't believe we have. Have we? Do you like it? I mean, we've covered a lot

1:38.2

of sandwich-based content over the years. I tell you what I suppose I was thinking about in this.

1:43.2

And then you're going to say the same about toasters. So, okay, fine. I remember growing up as a

1:48.2

child, it was like a big thing we got a sandwich toaster. And I slight making toast to G sandwiches.

1:55.1

I got one from my son, I think, a couple of years ago. It's not really changed very much, haven't

2:00.4

they? Oh, you mean it's a bit of technology that they perfected and that it can't be improved

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