Carne Ross: An independent diplomat

Prevoditelj: Katarina Smetko Recezent: Mislav Ante Omazić - EFZG

My story is a little bit about war.

Moja oriče je pomalo o ratu.

It's about disillusionment.

O razočaranju.

It's about death.

O smrti.

And it's about rediscovering

I o ponovnom otkrivanju

idealism

idealizma

in all of that wreckage.

u svom tom uništenju.

And perhaps also, there's a lesson

Možda u mojoj priči bude i pouka

about how to deal with

kako se nositi

our screwed-up, fragmenting

s našim zeznutim, raspadajućim

and dangerous world of the 21st century.

i opasnim svijetom u 21. stoljeću.

I don't believe in straightforward narratives.

Ne vjerujem u obično pripovijedanje.

I don't believe in a life or history

Ne vjerujem u život ili priču

written as decision "A" led to consequence "B"

koji je zapisan kao odluka A koja je dovela do posljedice B

led to consequence "C" --

koja je dovela do posljedice C --

these neat narratives that we're presented with,

kao u urednim pričama koje obično čujemo,

and that perhaps we encourage in each other.

i koje možda tražimo jedni od drugih.

I believe in randomness,

Vjerujem u slučajne događaje,

and one of the reasons I believe that

a jedan od razloga zašto to vjerujem

is because me becoming a diplomat was random.

jest taj što sam ja slučajno postao diplomat.

I'm colorblind.

Daltonist sam.

I was born unable to see most colors.

Rođen sam s manom neraspoznavanja većine boja.

This is why I wear gray and black most of the time,

Zato uglavnom nosim sivo i crno

and I have to take my wife with me

i moram sa sobom voditi suprugu

to chose clothes.

kada biram odjeću.

And I'd always wanted to be a fighter pilot when I was a boy.

Dok sam bio malen, uvijek sam želio biti vojni pilot.

I loved watching planes barrel over

Obožavao sam gledati avione kako prelijeću

our holiday home in the countryside.

našu vikendicu na selu.

And it was my boyhood dream to be a fighter pilot.

I dječački mi je san bio da postanem vojni pilot.

And I did the tests in the Royal Air Force to become a pilot,

Išao sam na testiranja za pilota u Kraljevskim zračnim snagama,

and sure enough, I failed.

i, naravno, pao sam.

I couldn't see all the blinking different lights,

Nisam vidio bljeskanje različitih svjetala

and I can't distinguish color.

i nisam razlikovao boje.

So I had to choose another career,

Zato sam morao odabrati drugo zanimanje,

and this was in fact relatively easy for me,

što mi je zapravo bilo relativno lako,

because I had an abiding passion all the way through my childhood,

jer sam imao veliku strast kroz cijelo djetinjstvo,

which was international relations.

a to su bili međunarodni odnosi.

As a child,

Kao dijete,

I read the newspaper thoroughly.

pažljivo sam čitao novine.

I was fascinated by the Cold War,

Fascinirao me Hladni rat,

by the INF negotiations

pregovori oko naoružanja

over intermediate-range nuclear missiles,

nuklearnim projektilima srednjeg dometa,

the proxy war between the Soviet Union and the U.S.

posrednički rat između Sovjetskog Saveza i SAD-a

in Angola or Afghanistan.

u Angoli i Afganistanu.

These things really interested me.

Te su me stvarno zaista zanimale.

And so I decided quite at an early age

I tako sam vrlo mlad odlučio

I wanted to be a diplomat.

da želim biti diplomat.

And I, one day, I announced this to my parents --

I jednog sam dana to rekao svojim roditeljima --

and my father denies this story to this day --

a moj otac do danas poriče ovu priču --

I said, "Daddy, I want to be a diplomat."

rekao sam: "Tata, ja želim biti diplomat."

And he turned to me, and he said,

A on se okrenuo prema meni i rekao:

"Carne, you have to be very clever to be a diplomat."

"Carne, moraš biti vrlo pametan da bi bio diplomat."

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

And my ambition was sealed.

Time je moja ambicija bila zapečaćena.

In 1989,

1989. godine

I entered the British Foreign Service.

zaposlio sam se u britanskom Ministarstvu vanjskih poslova.

That year, 5,000 people applied to become a diplomat,

Te se godine 5.000 ljudi prijavilo da postanu diplomati,

and 20 of us succeeded.

a uspjelo nas je 20.

And as those numbers suggest,

Kako možete zaključiti iz tih brojeva,

I was inducted into an elite

uveden sam u elitni,

and fascinating and exhilarating world.

fascinantan i uzbudljiv svijet.

Being a diplomat, then and now,

Zanimanje diplomata, i tada i danas,

is an incredible job, and I loved every minute of it --

nevjerojatan je posao i uživao sam u svakom trenutku.

I enjoyed the status of it.

Uživao sam u statusu koji on nosi.

I bought myself a nice suit and wore leather-soled shoes

Kupio sam si fino odijelo i nosio cipele s kožnim potplatima

and reveled in

i uživao sam

this amazing access I had to world events.

u nevjerojatnom pristupu događanjima u svijetu.

I traveled to the Gaza Strip.

Putovao sam u pojas Gaze.

I headed the Middle East Peace Process section

Bio sam na čelu Odjela za mirovni proces na Bliskom istoku

in the British Foreign Ministry.

u britanskom Ministarstvu vanjskih poslova.

I became a speechwriter

Pisao sam govore

for the British Foreign Secretary.

za britanskog ministra vanjskih poslova.

I met Yasser Arafat.

Upoznao sam Yassera Arafata.

I negotiated

Pregovarao sam

with Saddam's diplomats at the U.N.

sa Saddamovim diplomatima u UN-u.

Later, I traveled to Kabul

Kasnije sam putovao u Kabul

and served in Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban.

i služio u Afganistanu nakon pada talibana.

And I would travel

Putovao sam

in a C-130 transport

vojnim teretnim avionom C-130

and go and visit warlords

i posjećivao gerilske vojne zapovjednike

in mountain hideaways

u planinskim skloništima

and negotiate with them

i s njima pregovarao

about how we were going to eradicate Al Qaeda from Afghanistan,

kako ćemo iskorijeniti Al-Qa'idu iz Afganistana.

surrounded by my Special Forces escort,

Bio sam okružen svojom pratnjom iz posebnih postrojbi

who, themselves, had to have an escort of a platoon of Royal Marines,

koji su pak morali biti u pratnji odreda kraljevskih marinaca

because it was so dangerous.

jer to je bilo tako opasno.

And that was exciting -- that was fun.

I bilo je uzbudljivo. Bilo je zabavno.

It was really interesting.

Bilo je stvarno zanimljivo.

And it's a great cadre of people,

To je odličan kadar,

incredibly close-knit community of people.

nevjerojatno povezana zajednica ljudi.

And the pinnacle of my career, as it turned out,

To je bio i vrhunac moje karijere, što sam shvatio kasnije,

was when I was posted to New York.

kad sam raspoređen na službu u New Yorku.

I'd already served in Germany, Norway,

Prije toga radio sam u Njemačkoj, Norveškoj,

various other places,

i raznim drugim mjestima,

but I was posted to New York

ali poslan sam u New York

to serve on the U.N. Security Council for the British delegation.

kako bih radio u britanskoj delegaciji u Vijeću sigurnosti u UN-u.

And my responsibility was the Middle East,

Bio sam odgovoran za Bliski istok,

which was my specialty.

koji je bio moja specijalnost.

And there, I dealt with things

Na tom sam se položaju bavio stvarima

like the Middle East peace process,

kao što je mirovni proces na Bliskom istoku,

the Lockerbie issue --

ili slučaj Lockerbie --

we can talk about that later, if you wish --

o tome možemo razgovarati ako želite --

but above all, my responsibility was Iraq

ali najviše od svega, moja odgovornost bio je Irak

and its weapons of mass destruction

i oružja za masovno uništenje koja ondje postoje

and the sanctions we placed on Iraq

i sankcije koje smo nametnuli Iraku

to oblige it to disarm itself of these weapons.

kako bismo ga prisilili na uklanjanje tog oružja.

I was the chief British negotiator

Bio sam glavni britanski pregovarač

on the subject,

za to pitanje

and I was steeped in the issue.

i bio sam potpuno posvećem tom problemu.

And anyway,

Uglavnom,

my tour -- it was kind of a very exciting time.

moj put -- bilo je to na neki način vrlo uzbudljivo.

I mean it was very dramatic diplomacy.

Mislim, radilo se o vrlo dramatičnoj diplomaciji.

We went through several wars

Prošli smo kroz nekoliko ratova

during my time in New York.

za vrijeme dok sam radio u New Yorku.

I negotiated for my country

Zastupao sam svoju zemlju

the resolution in the Security Council

u rezoluciji u Vijeću sigurnosti

of the 12th of September 2001

donesenoj 12. rujna 2001. godine

condemning the attacks of the day before,

kojom su se osudili napadi prethodnog dana,

which were, of course, deeply present to us

koji su, naravno, bili bolno stvarni nama

actually living in New York at the time.

koji smo u to vrijeme živjeli u New Yorku.

So it was kind of the best of time, worst of times

Tako da je to na neki način bilo

kind of experience.

i slatko i gorko iskustvo.

I lived the high-life.

Živio sam ugodnim životom.

Although I worked very long hours,

Iako sam mnogo radio,

I lived in a penthouse in Union Square.

živio sam u luksuznom stanu na Union Squareu.

I was a single British diplomat in New York City;

Bio sam britanski diplomat, bez partnerice, u New Yorku;

you can imagine what that might have meant.

možete misliti što je to značilo.

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

I had a good time.

Uživao sam.

But in 2002,

Ali 2002. godine,

when my tour came to an end,

kad je mojem mandatu došao kraj,

I decided I wasn't going to go back

odučio sam da se neću vratiti

to the job that was waiting for me in London.

poslu koji me čekao u Londonu.

I decided to take a sabbatical,

Odlučio sam da odem na dopust

in fact, at the New School, Bruce.

u New School, Bruce.

In some inchoate, inarticulate way

Na neki nedefiniran, nejasan način,

I realized that there was something wrong

shvatio sam da nešto nije u redu

with my work, with me.

s mojim poslom, sa mnom.

I was exhausted,

Bio sam iscrpljen,

and I was also disillusioned

i bio sam također i razočaran

in a way I couldn't quite put my finger on.

na način koji nisam točno znao objasniti.

And I decided to take some time out from work.

Zato sam odlučio otići na odmor od posla.

The Foreign Office was very generous.

Ministarstvo vanjskih poslova bilo je vrlo velikodušno.

You could take these special unpaid leave, as they called them,

Mogao sam uzeti poseban neplaćen dopust, kako su oni to zvali,

and yet remain part of the diplomatic service, but not actually do any work.

a ipak ostati dio diplomatskog zbora, a da ne radim nikakav posao.

It was nice.

To je bilo lijepo.

And eventually, I decided

Na kraju sam odlučio

to take a secondment to join the U.N. in Kosovo,

uzeti premještaj kako bih se priključio UN-u na Kosovu,

which was then under U.N. administration.

koje je bilo pod upravom UN-a.

And two things happened in Kosovo,

Dvije su se stvari dogodile na Kosovu,

which kind of, again,

koje na neki način, i opet,

shows the randomness of life,

ilustriraju slučajnosti u životu,

because these things turned out to be

jer te su se stvari pokazale

two of the pivots of my life

ključnim točkama u mojem životu

and helped to deliver me to the next stage.

i pomogle mi da dođem do iduće faze.

But they were random things.

Ali to su bile slučajne stvari.

One was that, in the summer of 2004,

Prva je bila to što je, u ljeto 2004. godine,

the British government, somewhat reluctantly,

britanska vlada, pomalo nerado,

decided to have an official inquiry

odlučila provesti službeno ispitivanje

into the use of intelligence on WMD

korištenja informacija o oružju za masovno uništenje

in the run up to the Iraq War,

u vrijeme prije iračkog rata --

a very limited subject.

vrlo uska tema.

And I testified to that inquiry in secret.

I ja sam u tajnosti dao iskaz za to ispitivanje.

I had been steeped in the intelligence on Iraq

Bio sam dobro informiran o Iraku

and its WMD,

i njihovom oružju za masovno uništenje

and my testimony to the inquiry said three things:

i moja je izjava sadržavala tri točke:

that the government exaggerated the intelligence,

da je vlada pretjerivala u izvještajima,

which was very clear in all the years I'd read it.

što je bilo vrlo jasno svih godina dok sam ih čitao.

And indeed, our own internal assessment was very clear

I stvarno, naše unutarnje procjene jasno su otkrile

that Iraq's WMD

da oružje za masovno uništenje u Iraku

did not pose a threat to its neighbors, let alone to us.

nije predstavljalo prijetnju njihovim susjedima, a kamoli nama.

Secondly, the government had ignored all available alternatives to war,

Drugo, vlada je ignorirala moguće alternative ratu,

which in some ways

što je, na neki način,

was a more discreditable thing still.

još više smanjivalo njezin kredibilitet.

The third reason, I won't go into.

U treću stavku neću ulaziti.

But anyway, I gave that testimony,

Ali u svakom slučaju, dao sam iskaz

and that presented me with a crisis.

i to me dovelo do krize.

What was I going to do?

Što da radim?

This testimony was deeply critical of my colleagues,

U iskazu sam ozbiljno kritizirao svoje kolege,

of my ministers, who had, in my view

svoje ministre, koji su, po meni,

had perpetrated a war on a falsehood.

krenuli u rat na temelju lažnih pretpostavki.

And so I was in crisis.

I tako sam bio u krizi.

And this wasn't a pretty thing.

A to nije bilo ugodno.

I moaned about it, I hesitated,

Žalio sam se na to, oklijevao sam,

I went on and on and on to my long-suffering wife,

neprestano sam jadikovao svojoj sirotoj supruzi,

and eventually I decided to resign from the British Foreign Service.

i na kraju sam odlučio da dam otkaz u britanskom Ministarstvu vanjskih poslova.

I felt -- there's a scene in the Al Pacino movie "The Insider," which you may know,

Osjećao sam se -- kao u sceni iz filma Al Pacina "The Insider", možda ga znate,

where he goes back to CBS

gdje on odlazi na televiziju CBS

after they've let him down over the tobacco guy,

nakon što su mu uskratili potporu u slučaju s proizvođačem cigareta

and he goes, "You know, I just can't do this anymore. Something's broken."

i on kaže "Znate, ja ne mogu više. Nešto nije kako treba."

And it was like that for me. I love that movie.

Tako je bilo i meni. Obožavam taj film.

I felt just something's broken.

Samo sam osjetio da nešto nije kako treba.

I can't actually sit with my foreign minister

Ne mogu više samo sjediti s ministrom vanjskih poslova

or my prime minister again with a smile on my face

ili premijerom, s osmjehom na licu

and do what I used to do gladly for them.

i raditi što sam prije rado radio za njih.

So took a running leap

Zato sam se zatrčao

and jumped over the edge of a cliff.

i skočio s ruba litice.

And it was a very, very uncomfortable, unpleasant feeling.

Bio je to vrlo, vrlo neugodan osjećaj.

And I started to fall.

I počeo sam padati.

And today, that fall hasn't stopped;

I taj pad do danas nije prestao;

I'm still falling.

još uvijek padam.

But, in a way, I've got used to the sensation of it.

Ali na neki sam se način privikao na taj osjećaj.

And in a way, I kind of like

I na neki način,

the sensation of it a lot better

taj mi se osjećaj mnogo više sviđa

than I like actually standing on top of the cliff,

nego stajanje na vrhu litice

wondering what to do.

i smišljanje što da radim.

A second thing happened in Kosovo,

Druga se stvar dogodila na Kosovo.

which kind of -- I need a quick gulp of water, forgive me.

I ona je -- trebam popiti malo vode, ispričavam se.

A second thing happened in Kosovo,

Druga se stvar dogodila na Kosovu,

which kind of delivered the answer,

i donijela je odgovor na pitanje,

which I couldn't really answer,

do kojeg ja nisam mogao doći,

which is, "What do I do with my life?"

a to je: "Što da radim sa svojim životom?"

I love diplomacy --

Volim diplomaciju.

I have no career --

Nemam karijere.

I expected my entire life to be a diplomat, to be serving my country.

Očekivao sam da ću cijeli život biti diplomat, da ću služiti svojoj zemlji.

I wanted to be an ambassador,

Htio sam biti veleposlanik.

and my mentors, my heroes,

a svoje mentore, svoje heroje,

people who got to the top of my profession,

ljude koji su bili najbolji u mojem zanimanju,

and here I was throwing it all away.

sve sam to sada odbacivao.

A lot of my friends were still in it.

Mnogi moji prijatelji još uvijek su bili u tom poslu.

My pension was in it.

Moja mirovina je ovisila o tom poslu.

And I gave it up.

A ja sam odustao od njega.

And what was I going to do?

I što da radim?

And that year, in Kosovo,

Te godine, na Kosovu,

this terrible, terrible thing happened, which I saw.

dogodila se strašna, strašna stvar, a ja sam je vidio.

In March 2004, there were terrible riots

U ožujku 2004. godine došlo je do strašnih pobuna

all over the province -- as it then was -- of Kosovo.

u cijeloj pokrajini -- što je ono tada i bilo -- Kosovo.

18 people were killed.

Ubijeno je 18 ljudi.

It was anarchy.

Bila je to anarhija.

And it's a very horrible thing to see anarchy,

Bilo je zastrašujuće vidjeti anarhiju,

to know that the police and the military --

znati da policija i vojska --

there were lots of military troops there --

bilo je prisutno mnogo vojske --

actually can't stop that rampaging mob

zapravo ne mogu zaustaviti podivljalu svjetinu

who's coming down the street.

koja dolazi ulicom.

And the only way that rampaging mob coming down the street will stop

Jedini način da se ta podivljala svjetina koja dolazi niz ulicu zaustavi

is when they decide to stop

jest da sami odluče prestati

and when they've had enough burning and killing.

kad im bude dovoljno paljenja i ubijanja.

And that is not a very nice feeling to see, and I saw it.

To nije naročito lijepo za vidjeti, a ja sam to vidio.

And I went through it. I went through those mobs.

I prošao sam to. Probijao sam se kroz rulju.

And with my Albanian friends, we tried to stop it, but we failed.

Sa svojim albanskim prijateljima, pokušali smo ih zaustaviti, ali nismo uspjeli.

And that riot taught me something,

Ta me pobuna naučila nešto,

which isn't immediately obvious and it's kind of a complicated story.

što nije odmah vidljivo i radi se o pomalo kompliciranoj priči.

But one of the reasons that riot took place --

Ali jedan od razloga te pobune --

those riots, which went on for several days, took place --

tih pobuna, koje su trajale nekoliko dana --

was because the Kosovo people

bio je taj što Kosovari

were disenfranchised from their own future.

nisu imali utjecaja na vlastitu budućnost.

There were diplomatic negotiations about the future of Kosovo

U to su se vrijeme odvijali diplomatski pregovori

going on then,

o budućnosti Kosova,

and the Kosovo government, let alone the Kosovo people,

a ni vlada Kosova, a kamoli kosovski narod,

were not actually

nisu zapravo

participating in those talks.

sudjelovali u tim pregovorima.

There was this whole fancy diplomatic system,

Postojao je cijeli fini diplomatski sustav,

this negotiation process about the future of Kosovo,

taj proces pregovora o budućnosti Kosova,

and the Kosovars weren't part of it.

a Kosovari nisu sudjelovali u tome.

And funnily enough, they were frustrated about that.

I, tko bi rekao, to ih je frustriralo.

Those riots were part of the manifestation of that frustration.

Pobune su bile način ispoljavanja te frustracije.

It wasn't the only reason,

To nije bio jedini razlog,

and life is not simple, one reason narratives.

jer život nije jednostavna, jednosmjerna priča.

It was a complicated thing,

Bilo je komplicirano,

and I'm not pretending it was more simple than it was.

i ne činim to jednostavnijim nego što je bilo.

But that was one of the reasons.

Ali to je bio jedan od razloga.

And that kind of gave me the inspiration --

A to me, recimo, inspiriralo --

or rather to be precise,

ili, da budem precizniji,

it gave my wife the inspiration.

inspiriralo je moju suprugu.

She said, "Why don't you advise the Kosovars?

Rekla je: "Zašto ti ne bi bio savjetnik Kosovarima?

Why don't you advise their government on their diplomacy?"

Zašto ne bi savjetovao njihovu vladu ili njihove diplomate?"

And the Kosovars were not allowed a diplomatic service.

A Kosovari nisu smjeli imati diplomatsku službu.

They were not allowed diplomats.

Nisu smjeli imati diplomate.

They were not allowed a foreign office

Nisu smjeli imati ministarstvo vanjskih poslova

to help them deal with this immensely complicated process,

koje bi im pomoglo u tom vrlo kompliciranom procesu,

which became known as the Final Status Process of Kosovo.

koji je kasnije bio poznat kao Proces za konačni status Kosova.

And so that was the idea.

To je, dakle, bila ideja.

That was the origin of the thing that became Independent Diplomat,

Tako je nastao Nezavisni diplomat,

the world's first diplomatic advisory group

prva diplomatska savjetnička grupa na svijetu,

and a non-profit to boot.

i to neprofitna.

And it began when I flew back from London

Sve je počelo kad sam se vratio iz Londona

after my time at the U.N. in Kosovo.

nakon što sam boravio s UN-om na Kosovu.

I flew back and had dinner with the Kosovo prime minister and said to him,

Vratio sam se i otišao na večeru s kosovskim premijerom i rekao sam mu:

"Look, I'm proposing that I come and advise you on the diplomacy.

"Predlažem da vas dođem savjetovati o diplomaciji.

I know this stuff. It's what I do. Why don't I come and help you?"

Razumijem se u te stvari. Time se bavim. Zašto vam ne bih pomogao?"

And he raised his glass of raki to me and said,

Podigao je svoju čašu rakije i rekao:

"Yes, Carne. Come."

"Da, Carne. Dođi."

And I came to Kosovo

I tako sam došao na Kosovo

and advised the Kosovo government.

i savjetovao kosovsku vladu.

Independent Diplomat ended up advising three successive Kosovo prime ministers

Nezavisni diplomat na kraju je savjetovao tri kosovska premijera za redom

and the multi-party negotiation team of Kosovo.

i višestranački kosovski pregovarački tim.

And Kosovo became independent.

I tako je Kosovo postalo nezavisno.

Independent Diplomat is now established

Nezavisni diplomat sada je osnovan

in five diplomatic centers around the world,

u pet diplomatskih centara u svijetu,

and we're advising seven or eight

a savjetujemo sedam ili osam

different countries, or political groups,

različitih zemalja ili političkih skupina,

depending on how you wish to define them --

ovisi kako ih želite definirati --

and I'm not big on definitions.

ali meni definicije nisu naročito bitne.

We're advising the Northern Cypriots on how to reunify their island.

Savjetujemo Sjeverne Ciprane kako da ujedine svoj otok.

We're advising the Burmese opposition,

Savjetujemo burmansku opoziciju,

the government of Southern Sudan,

vladu Južnog Sudana,

which -- you heard it here first --

koja će -- ovdje to čujete prvi put --

is going to be a new country within the next few years.

postati nova zemlja u sljedećih nekoliko godina.

We're advising the Polisario Front of the Western Sahara,

Savjetujemo Front Polisario u zapadnoj Sahari,

who are fighting to get their country back

koji se bore da oslobode svoju zemlju

from Moroccan occupation

od marokanske okupacije

after 34 years of dispossession.

nakon 34 godine otuđenja.

We're advising various island states in the climate change negotiations,

Savjetujemo razne otočke zemlje u pregovorima o promjeni klime,

which is suppose to culminate

koji bi trebali kulminirati

in Copenhagen.

u Kopenhagenu.

There's a bit of randomness here too

I ovdje postoji doza slučajnosti

because, when I was beginning Independent Diplomat,

jer, kad sam tek počinjao s Nezavisnim diplomatom,

I went to a party in the House of Lords,

otišao sam na zabavu u Domu lordova,

which is a ridiculous place,

što je presmiješno,

but I was holding my drink like this, and I bumped into

ali držao sam svoje piće ovako, i zaletio sam se

this guy who was standing behind me.

u tipa koji je stajao iza mene.

And we started talking, and he said --

Tako smo počeli razgovarati i on je rekao --

I told him what I was doing,

ispričao sam mu čime se bavim,

and I told him rather grandly

i rekao sam mu prilično pompozno

I was going to establish Independent Diplomat in New York.

da namjeravam osnovati Nezavisnog diplomata u New Yorku.

At that time there was just me --

U to vrijeme samo sam ja bio u tome,

and me and my wife were moving back to New York.

i selio sam se sa suprugom natrag u New York.

And he said, "Why don't you see my colleagues in New York?"

A on je rekao: "Zašto ne odete do mojih kolega u New Yorku?"

And it turned out

Ispalo je da

he worked for an innovation company called ?What If!,

on radi za tvrtku za inovacije koja se zove ?What If! (?Što Ako!),

which some of you have probably heard of.

za koju su neki od vas možda čuli.

And one thing led to another,

I tako, spletom okolnosti,

and I ended up having a desk

dobio sam stol

in ?What If! in New York,

u tvrtki ?What If! u New Yorku,

when I started Independent Diplomat.

kad sam započinjao s Nezavisnim diplomatom.

And watching ?What If!

A gledanje kako ?What If!

develop new flavors of chewing gum for Wrigley

stvara nove okuse žvakaćih guma Wrigley

or new flavors for Coke

ili nove okuse Coca-Cole

actually helped me innovate

zapravo mi je pomoglo u smišljanju

new strategies for the Kosovars

novih inovativnih strategija za Kosovare

and for the Saharawis of the Western Sahara.

i Saharavije iz Zapadne Sahare.

And I began to realize that there are different ways of doing diplomacy --

Počeo sam shvaćati da postoje drugačiji načini bavljenja diplomacijom,

that diplomacy, like business,

da je diplomacija, kao bilo koji posao,

is a business of solving problems,

posao rješavanja problema,

and yet the word innovation doesn't exist in diplomacy;

a riječ inovacija ipak ne postoji u diplomaciji;

it's all zero sum games and realpolitik

to je sve igra nulte sume i realpolitike

and ancient institutions that have been there for generations

i starih institucija koje postoje već generacijama

and do things the same way they've always done things.

i sve rade na isti način kao što su to oduvijek radili.

And Independent Diplomat, today,

A Nezavisni diplomat danas

tries to incorporate some of the things I learned at ?What If!.

pokušava ukopiti neke od stvari koje sam naučio u ?What If!.

We all sit in one office and shout at each other across the office.

Svi sjedimo u uredu i dovikujemo se jedni s drugima.

We all work on little laptops and try to move desks to change the way we think.

Svi radimo na malim laptopima i nastojimo pomicati stolove da bismo promijenili način razmišljanja.

And we use naive experts

Angažiramo naivne stručnjake

who may know nothing about the countries we're dealing with,

koji možda ne znaju ništa o zemljama kojima se bavimo,

but may know something about something else

ali možda znaju nešto o nečem drugom,

to try to inject new thinking

što bi moglo ubaciti novi način razmišljanja

into the problems

o problemima

that we try to address for our clients.

koje se trudimo riješiti za naše klijente.

It's not easy, because our clients, by definition,

To nije lako jer naši su klijenti, po prirodi stvari,

are having a difficult time, diplomatically.

u teškoj situaciji, diplomatski gledano.

There are, I don't know,

Postoji, ne znam,

some lessons from all of this,

nekoliko pouka u svemu ovome,

personal and political --

osobnih i političkih --

and in a way, they're the same thing.

i, na neki način, one su sve ista stvar.

The personal one

Osobna je pouka

is falling off a cliff

to da je padanje s litice

is actually a good thing, and I recommend it.

zapravo dobra stvar, i preporučam je.

And it's a good thing to do at least once in your life

I dobro je barem jednom u životu

just to tear everything up and jump.

jednostavno raskinuti sa svime i skočiti.

The second thing is a bigger lesson about the world today.

Druga stvar je veća pouka o današnjem svijetu.

Independent Diplomat is part of a trend

Nezavisni diplomat dio je trenda

which is emerging and evident across the world,

koji se tek pojavljuje i primjetan je u cijelom svijetu,

which is that the world is fragmenting.

a to je da se svijet cijepa.

States mean less than they used to,

Države imaju manje značenje nego prije,

and the power of the state is declining.

a moć države sve je manja.

That means the power of others things is rising.

To znači da se povećava moć drugih stvari.

Those other things are called non-state actors.

Te se stvari zovu nedržavni faktori.

They may be corporations,

To mogu biti korporacije,

they may be mafiosi, they may be nice NGOs,

mogu biti mafijaši, mogu biti fine nevladine organizacije,

they may anything,

to može biti bilo tko,

any number of things.

bilo kakva organizacija.

We are living in a more complicated and fragmented world.

Živimo u sve kompliciranijem i rascjepanijem svijetu.

If governments are less able

Ako vlade su vlade manje sposobne

to affect the problems

utjecati na probleme u svijetu

that affect us in the world,

koji utječu na nas,

then that means, who is left to deal with them,

onda to znači - tko je ostao da ih rješava.

who has to take greater responsibility to deal with them?

tko mora preuzeti veliku odgovornost da ih rješava?

Us.

Mi.

If they can't do it, who's left to deal with it?

Ako oni to ne mogu, tko je preostao da ih riješi?

We have no choice but to embrace that reality.

Nemamo drugog izbora osim da prihvatimo tu stvarnost.

What this means is

A to znači

it's no longer good enough

da više nije dovoljno

to say that international relations, or global affairs,

da kažemo da međunarodni odnosi, ili svjetski problemi,

or chaos in Somalia,

ili kaos u Somaliji,

or what's going on in Burma is none of your business,

ili ono što se događa u Burmi nije naš problem.

and that you can leave it to governments to get on with.

i da možete ostaviti vladama da se time bave.

I can connect any one of you

Svakoga od vas mogu

by six degrees of separation

preko šest stupnjeva udaljenosti

to the Al-Shabaab militia in Somalia.

povezati s paravojskom Al-Shabaab u Somaliji.

Ask me how later, particularly if you eat fish, interestingly enough,

Pitajte me poslije kako, ako jedete ribu, zanimljivo,

but that connection is there.

ali ta veza postoji.

We are all intimately connected.

Blisko smo povezani.

And this isn't just Tom Friedman,

I ne radi se tu samo o Tomu Friedmanu,

it's actually provable in case after case after case.

to je zapravo dokazivo u svakom novom slučaju.

What that means is, instead of asking your politicians to do things,

A to znači da, umjesto da tražite političare da obavljaju stvari,

you have to look to yourself to do things.

morate sami odlučiti obavljati stvari.

And Independent Diplomat is a kind of example of this

Nezavisni diplomat je primjer toga,

in a sort of loose way.

na neki širok način.

There aren't neat examples, but one example is this:

Ne postoje savršeni primjeri, ali evo jednog:

the way the world is changing

način na koji se svijet mijenja

is embodied in what's going on at the place I used to work --

utjelovljen je u situaciji na mjestu gdje sam nekad radio,

the U.N. Security Council.

u Vijeću sigurnosti UN-a.

The U.N. was established in 1945.

UN je osnovan 1945. godine.

Its charter is basically designed

UN je izvorno zamišljen

to stop conflicts between states --

kako bi zaustavio sukobe između zemalja --

interstate conflict.

međudržavne sukobe.

Today, 80 percent of the agenda

Danas se 80% predmeta na dnevnom redu

of the U.N. Security Council

Vijeća sigurnosti UN-a

is about conflicts within states,

odnosi na sukobe unutar država,

involving non-state parties --

koji uključuju nedržavne aktere --

guerillas, separatists,

gerilce, separatiste,

terrorists, if you want to call them that,

teroriste, ako ih hoćete tako nazvati,

people who are not normal governments, who are not normal states.

ljude koji nisu dio uobičajenih vlada, uobičajenih država.

That is the state of the world today.

Takvo je danas stanje svijeta.

When I realized this,

Kad sam to shvatio,

and when I look back on my time at the Security Council

i kad razmišljam o vremenu provedenom u Vijeću sigurnosti

and what happened with the Kosovars,

i o onome što se dogodilo Kosovarima,

and I realize that often

shvaćam da često

the people who were most directly affected

ljudi na koje je najizravnije utjecalo

by what we were doing in the Security Council

ono što smo radili mi u Vijeću sigurnosti

weren't actually there, weren't actually invited

nisu uopće bili prisutni, nisu bili pozvani

to give their views to the Security Council,

da iznesu svoja stajališta pred Vijećem sigurnosti.

I thought, this is wrong.

Mislio sam da to nije u redu.

Something's got to be done about this.

Nešto se mora učiniti u vezi toga.

So I started off in a traditional mode.

Zato sam počeo tradicionalnim putem.

Me and my colleagues at Independent Diplomat

Ja i moji kolege u Nezavisnom diplomatu

went around the U.N. Security Council.

išli smo po cijelom Vijeću sigurnosti.

We went around 70 U.N. member states --

Obišli smo 70 zemalja članica UN-a --

the Kazaks, the Ethiopians, the Israelis --

Kazahstance, Etiopljanje, Izraelce --

you name them, we went to see them --

sve smo ih posjetili --

the secretary general, all of them,

glavnog tajnika, sve.

and said, "This is all wrong.

I rekao sam: "Sve je ovo pogrešno.

This is terrible that you don't consult these people who are actually affected.

Strašno je da ne konzultirate ljude na koje sve ovo utječe.

You've got to institutionalize a system

Morate institucionalizirati sustav

where you actually invite the Kosovars

u kojem ćete pozvati Kosovare

to come and tell you what they think.

da dođu i kažu vam što misle.

This will allow you to tell me -- you can tell them what you think.

Tako ćete mi moći reći -- moći ćete njima reći što vi mislite.

It'll be great. You can have an exchange.

Bit će sjajno. Možete imati razmjenu.

You can actually incorporate these people's views into your decisions,

Možete uključiti stajališta tih ljudi u svoje odluke,

which means your decisions will be more effective and durable."

što znači da će vaše odluke biti učinkovitije i trajnije."

Super-logical, you would think.

Super-logično, pomislili biste.

I mean, incredibly logical. So obvious, anybody could get it.

Mislim, nevjerojatno logično. Tako očito, svi to mogu.

And of course, everybody got it. Everybody went, "Yes, of course, you're absolutely right.

Naravno, svi su shvatili što želim. Rekli su: "Da, naravno, u potpunosti si u pravu.

Come back to us

Dođi ponovno

in maybe six months."

možda za nekih šest mjeseci."

And of course, nothing happened -- nobody did anything.

Naravno, ništa se nije dogodilo. Nitko ništa nije učinio.

The Security Council does its business

Vijeće sigurnosti danas djeluje

in exactly the same way today

na potpuno isti način

that it did X number of years ago,

kao i prije X godina,

when I was there 10 years ago.

kad sam ondje bio prije 10 godina.

So we looked at that observation

Zato smo analizirali

of basically failure

taj naš, u biti, neuspjeh

and thought, what can we do about it.

i razmislili što tu možemo učiniti.

And I thought, I'm buggered

Pomislio sam da sam nadrapao

if I'm going to spend the rest of my life

ako namjeravam provesti ostatak života

lobbying for these crummy governments

lobirajući da te beskorisne vlade

to do what needs to be done.

naprave što se treba napraviti.

So what we're going to do

Dakle, ono što ćemo učiniti

is we're actually going to set up these meetings ourselves.

jest da sami dogovorimo te sastanke.

So now, Independent Diplomat

Sada je Nezavisni diplomat

is in the process of setting up meetings

u procesu dogovaranja sastanaka

between the U.N. Security Council

između Vijeća sigurnosti UN-a

and the parties to the disputes

i sudionika sukoba

that are on the agenda of the Security Council.

koji su na dnevnom redu Vijeća sigurnosti.

So we will be bringing

Tako ćemo dovesti

Darfuri rebel groups,

pobunjeničke skupine iz Darfura,

the Northern Cypriots and the Southern Cypriots,

Sjeverne Ciprane i Južne Ciprane,

rebels from Aceh,

pobunjenike iz Aceha,

and awful long laundry list

i užasno dug popis

of chaotic conflicts around the world.

kaotičnih sukoba u cijelom svijetu.

And we will be trying to bring the parties to New York

Pokušat ćemo dovesti sve njih u New York

to sit down in a quiet room

da sjednu u tihu prostoriju

in a private setting with no press

u intimnom okruženju, bez novinara

and actually explain what they want

te da objasne što žele

to the members of the U. N. Security Council,

pred članovima Vijeća sigurnosti,

and for the members of the U.N. Security Council

a da članovi Vijeća sigurnosti

to explain to them what they want.

njima objasne što oni žele.

So there's actually a conversation,

To će, dakle, biti razgovor

which has never before happened.

kakvog još nikad nije bilo.

And of course, describing all this,

I, naravno, dok ovo opisujem,

any of you who know politics will think this is incredibly difficult,

svi vi koji se razumijete u politiku mislit ćete kako je to vrlo teško

and I entirely agree with you.

i ja se u potpunosti slažem s vama.

The chances of failure are very high,

Vrlo su velike šanse za neuspjeh,

but it certainly won't happen

ali svakako se ništa neće dogoditi

if we don't try to make it happen.

ako se za to ne potrudimo.

And my politics has changed fundamentally

Moja se politika iz temelja promijenila

from when I was a diplomat to what I am today,

otkad sam bio diplomat do ovoga što sam danas

and I think that outputs is what matters, not process,

i mislim da su bitni rezultati, a ne proces,

not technology, frankly, so much either.

niti, iskreno, tehnologija.

Preach technology

Propovjedajte o tehnologiji

to all the Twittering members of all the Iranian demonstrations

svim sudionicama prosvjeda u Iranu koji su na Twitteru,

who are now in political prison in Tehran,

i koji su sad u političkom zatvoru u Teheranu,

where Ahmadinejad remains in power.

gdje je Ahmadinedžad i dalje na vlasti.

Technology has not delivered political change in Iran.

Tehnologija nije donijela političke promjene u Iranu.

You've got to look at the outputs, and you got to say to yourself,

Morate gledati rezultate, i morate reći sami sebi:

"What can I do to produce that particular output?"

"Što mogu učiniti da dobijem takav i takav rezultat?"

That is the politics of the 21st century,

To je politika 21. stoljeća.

and in a way, Independent Diplomat

Nezavisni diplomat, na neki način,

embodies that fragmentation, that change,

utjelovljuje to cijepanje, tu promjenu

that is happening to all of us.

koja se događa svima nama.

That's my story. Thanks.

To je moja priča. Hvala.