{"id":432,"date":"2013-04-05T14:57:33","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T18:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/whiteheadschool\/?p=432"},"modified":"2018-04-19T10:20:15","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T14:20:15","slug":"laurel-stone-world-policy-institute-blog-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/schoolofdiplomacy\/2013\/04\/05\/laurel-stone-world-policy-institute-blog-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Internship Blog Series: World Policy Institute Pt. I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/whiteheadschool\/files\/2013\/04\/wpi.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-490\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/whiteheadschool\/files\/2013\/04\/wpi-300x143.jpg\" alt=\"wpi\" width=\"300\" height=\"143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/schoolofdiplomacy\/files\/2013\/04\/wpi-300x143.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/schoolofdiplomacy\/files\/2013\/04\/wpi.jpg 324w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The past two weeks were a little stressful and hectic as I planned a luncheon for a VIP<br \/>\ndiscussion about <a title=\"Afghanistan Beyond 2014\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldpolicy.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/22\/afghanistan-beyond-2014\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Afghanistan Beyond 2014<\/a>. After finding a venue and figuring out the<br \/>\nother logistics for the event, I was tasked with compiling a limited guest list and then<br \/>\ncontacting each person individually. The most incredible aspect of this responsibility was<br \/>\nhaving the opportunity to contact the heads of several Permanent UN missions and<br \/>\nDepartments. Ultimately, we had a full guest list and attendance for the luncheon. Three<br \/>\nAfghan civil society leaders came to NYC for the event, and the countries having<br \/>\nsignificant involvement in Afghanistan were all represented. Additionally, the UN<br \/>\nDepartment of Political Affairs, Department of Peacekeeping Operations, UNDP,<br \/>\nUNICEF, and Secretariat were all represented as well. I was able to attend the<br \/>\nluncheon, and the discussion between these 30 policy makers and practitioners was<br \/>\ntruly incredible. I was able to meet and network with several of those that attended, and<br \/>\nI also now have the opportunity to write an article for World Policy Institute about the<br \/>\nevent. This was definitely an amazing opportunity to see people in the field finding<br \/>\nsolutions to a very complex situation which will have great impact in the next couple<br \/>\nyears.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Read the article Laurel published here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ch1prd0102.outlook.com\/owa\/redir.aspx?C=eQOrwdZyFUybouf-dkMOoEDAGBckBNAIaqBEoaQmjMJfH7ybbKDQkVjyR7XtRvd275B_T-XAd1s.&amp;URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.worldpolicy.org%2fblog%2f2013%2f02%2f22%2fafghanistan-beyond-2014\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.worldpolicy.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/22\/afghanistan-beyond-2014<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laurel Stone writes about her experience with the Afghanistan Beyond 2014 luncheon. Her reflections on the event were published on the World Policy Institute website!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":940,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[161,162,173,63],"class_list":["post-432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-graduate-students","category-internship-experiences","tag-graduate","tag-new-york-city","tag-non-profit","tag-security"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/schoolofdiplomacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/schoolofdiplomacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/schoolofdiplomacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/schoolofdiplomacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/940"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/schoolofdiplomacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/schoolofdiplomacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1143,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/schoolofdiplomacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions\/1143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/schoolofdiplomacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/schoolofdiplomacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/schoolofdiplomacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}