The eighth Secretary-General of the United Nations Mr. Ban Ki-moon, after serving 10 years retired on January 1, 2018. His memoirs, “Resolved Uniting Nations in A Divided World” were published in 2021. Ban Ki-Moon is the only UN Secretary-General who was born and brought up in a country that not only was a victim of an invasion but also for the first time in the history of the UN, the Organization itself was directly involved in countering the invasion. Ban Ki-moon’s memoirs narrates articulately and compassionately many issues that divide the world. The efforts and ‘resolve’ of the eighth UN Secretary-General to solve, ‘resolve’ and to improve the human condition (so to speak) is reflected in the optimistic sentiment expressed in the concluding sentence of his book: “[t]ogether our mission is possible.”

• Myint Zan(former coordinator of the Graduate International Law Program at the Australian National University (ANU))