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"The United Nations is a unique socio-political technology with a pivotal role in global peace and security. However, having evolved from the vestiges of World War II, the UN is in urgent need of an upgrade if it is to remain relevant and capable of providing meaningful engagement in the 21st-century. While most of us think that significant change is difficult, Dr. Smith believes this one false assumption often prevents us from making the changes we most urgently need. In this book, she outlines a 3D model that utilizes her research into and development of ""transilient leadership."" The vectors of leadership in her model provide a fascinating understanding of the mindset and practice needed in this century to successfully engage personal and organizational change. She then combines her insights with a corporate strategy for responding to market challenges with an essential tweak for the United Nations context. These two concepts converge in a social technology innovation that she describes as ""meta-nets,"" (small well-chosen networks tasked with reframing today's global threats as potent opportunities for the UN to more vigorously engage its fundamental mandate, advancing the greater good of all humanity). All too often, our larger social institutions are sluggish about, even resistant, to change, but this need not, must not, be the case, The United Nations can enact meaningful change by engaging transilient leadership and meta-net strategies. While many lament the impact of the exponential rate of technical innovations, Dr. Smith sees a different way forward and her clarity about the urgency of taking strategic steps now, not later, is fresh and bold. Her many years of interaction at the UN has conveyed to Dr. Smith an optimistic and realistic perspective that pursuit of the innovations she proposes here will unlock the UN and unleash its latent ability to play a more vital role in addressing and resolving global crises.The alternative is stark, a world where effective leadership at the highest levels falters and fails, and we the people are left to our own lesser devices. There is no better time than right now to decrypt the keys to unlock the UN in order to fulfill the global role with which it has been entrusted."

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"Dr. Karen Judd Smith originally hails from Australia but has lived in the United States for more than 30 years. She holds degrees in Physics, History and Philosophy of Science, and Theology. For the practicum part of her doctoral dissertation, she developed the ""Advocacy Algorithm,"" a 36 module online course for UN NGOs that offers them ways to navigate the UN and advocate for their programs in that context. Karen has spent her adult life developing and overseeing projects for which she adapted multiple business methods and social entrepreneurial strategies. She is the author of ""Change !t Up,"" and ""Making Your NGO's Advocacy Powerful"" and now, ""United Nations Unlocked: The Missing Link the UN Needs to Tackle Global Terrorism and the Coming Tech Tsunami."" Over the years, Karen has spoken extensively in more than 20 countries promoting strategic and innovative social initiatives and currently consults for international NGOs and entrepreneurs who take their role as global citizens seriously. She currently serves as the NY Chair of the Alliance of NGOs of Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice. As one focal point of this NGO is the Alliance on Counter Terrorism and Cyberwar, she is involved in shaping projects designed to defuse violent extremism and engage the tech community in global security arenas. In the midst of all this seriousness, Karen balances her life with gardening, feeding the hummingbirds and wild turkeys that frequent her garden, fending off VR invaders with her grown sons, learning about the latest in biotech research from her daughter and competing with her husband in tennis and Mario Kart. Between colleagues, friends, and family, she enjoys a wide variety of political and tech banter, online around the world and in person over a cuppa. One item on her bucket list is to make her 20th skydive a full family affair."

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