The transformation plan "can only happen if we confront the difficult issues and make the difficult choices," Mr. Lakefield said in a recorded message to employees.
It is a small story, but it is perhaps indicative as to how the international assistance system and national governments can work with community leaders to guide pastoral communities to confront the difficult issues they are facing.
This young and confident leader believed the nation possessed the political will to stand up to the challenges of the Cold War, to confront the difficult issues surrounding racism and civil rights, to maintain the economic prosperity of the nation.
Many people are afraid to talk about race and confront the difficult issues it may present.
Following the final episode of the award-winning German drama Generation War, Martha Kearney is joined by a panel including the programme makers, leading historians and cultural commentators, to examine the historical facts behind the series, the controversy it has caused and why now Germany is confronting the difficult issues of its past.
The class is designed to empower students to confront the difficult and often thorny issues that surround us today and reach thoughtful conclusions rather than display gut reactions.
In the 19th century, there were controversies about tractarianism; in the 20th, there was the impact of the two world wars; in the 21st century, the church has confronted the difficult and topical issues of violence, euthanasia, refugees, marriage and sexuality.
"Everyone is extremely focused on the core issues, the difficult issues that confront them," said Cohen, who was joined by Scot Beckenbaugh, the mediation service's deputy director.
Proposers Alison Goldsworthy and Ruth Polling said at the time: "The aim is to confront a difficult issue, to leave an unclear situation clarified, and those in need of protection, protected.
"I have confidence that our European colleagues fully appreciate what is at stake in the difficult issues they are now confronting and that, over time, they will take all necessary and appropriate steps to address those issues effectively and comprehensively", he said.
