{"id":32698,"date":"2024-06-18T13:04:28","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T17:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=32698"},"modified":"2024-06-18T13:13:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T17:13:00","slug":"finland-president-stubb-93-addresses-leaders-at-ukraine-peace-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/finland-president-stubb-93-addresses-leaders-at-ukraine-peace-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Finland President Stubb &#8217;93 addresses leaders at Ukraine peace summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/alexstubb\/status\/1802703200337678823\">X (aka Twitter)<\/a>, Republic of Finland President Alexander Stubb, a 1993 Furman University alumnus (political science), said the Summit on Peace in Ukraine held last week in Switzerland was a &#8220;step toward a just peace.&#8221; Before 60 heads of state, Stubb described why the summit was important, why Ukraine holds a position of strength on the path to peace, and the importance of a just and sustainable peace in the region. In his closing remarks, he said, &#8220;Peace is very rarely an end-state. It&#8217;s always a process.&#8221; And quoting his predecessor and mentor, President Martti Ahtisaari, he said, &#8220;What humans begin, humans can also end.&#8221; A transcript of Stubb&#8217;s speech may also be viewed on the president&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.presidentti.fi\/en\/speech-by-president-of-the-republic-of-finland-alexander-stubb-at-the-opening-plenary-of-summit-on-peace-in-ukraine-on-15-june-2024\/\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A stoic Alexander Stubb, president of Finland and Furman alumnus, addresses 60 heads of state attending the Summit on Peace in Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":27152,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,32,2857],"tags":[2859,1341,1342,2858,2196],"class_list":["post-32698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-in-the-news","category-politics-and-international-affairs","category-x-twitter","tag-peace-summit","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-united-nations","tag-war-in-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32698"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32706,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32698\/revisions\/32706"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}