Ban, who has dealt with some of the most complex and intractable crises in the organization's history — including Iraq, Syria, Libya, and the recent Ebola epidemic — has a reputation for unflappability and cordiality, but even he remonstrated harshly with Yemen's warring factions earlier this week.
Given the horrendous violence associated with the Mexican drug trade these days and the seemingly intractable war with trafficking organizations, Mr. Walters's crimes seem like a throwback to a bygone era.
Cecilia Martínez, a Mexico City architect and a director of the Mega-Cities Project, an organization that aims to solve intractable urban problems, says the city should not evict the vendors without creating a social architecture for them -- stores, housing and schools.
If they fight it for long, they'll be abandoned for the intractable dinosaurs they are and leaner, more forward-thinking organizations will take their place.
"It is an intractable problem," said Jeffrey M. Zupan, a senior fellow with Regional Plan Association, a nonprofit organization based in Manhattan.
His death refocuses attention on college hazing and illustrates just how pervasive and intractable the problem can be, how rooted it is into some organizations, how far some will go to belong and feel bonded and how some officials can seem to turn a blind eye — publicly disavowing and condemning while silently condoning.
Since 2004, when the E.U. reneged on its own principles not to admit Cyprus until the island's status was resolved, the Cyprus-Turkey dispute has become one of the most debilitating and intractable issues inside and between NATO and the E.U., say diplomats from both organizations.
The organization will reward an unprecedented amount of prize money to researchers making advances in curing intractable diseases and extending human life, the Guardian reported.
Too often development organizations, donors, and aid programs are very conservative in the way they tackle seemingly intractable development problems - avoiding risk and far too accepting of appallingly low success rates.
The recent Green 2.0 Report from the University of Michigan showed an intractable "glass ceiling" that keeps non-white participation at an alarming 12 -15% level in the workforce of conservation organizations, public lands management agencies and the philanthropic organizations that undergird them.
