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We the Peoples - A UN for the Twenty-First Century (Hardcover)
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We the Peoples - A UN for the Twenty-First Century (Hardcover)
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During his momentous time as Secretary-General of the UN, Kofi
Annan played a decisive role in launching the Millennium
Development Goals, establishing the International Criminal Court,
and articulating the Responsibility to Protect as a guiding
principle for international action. In 2001--just after the attacks
of 9/11--he and the UN jointly received the Nobel Peace Prize for
their work for a better organized and more peaceful world. These
and other crucial events including the crises over Kosovo and East
Timor, and the war in Iraq--are encapsulated in this book of Kofi
Annan s key speeches throughout his term of office. These
highlights have been carefully selected, edited, and introduced to
give a broad view of Annan s most pressing concerns and the
eloquence with which he addressed them. Covering subjects from
development, health, and climate change to the prevention of
genocide and the ideal of diversity, these statements show how
deeply involved the UN was in the most important issues of the era.
In them, Annan poignantly addresses not just political leaders and
diplomats, but the individuals he considers emblematic of the
dilemmas the world faces the young girl born in Afghanistan on the
day Annan accepted the Nobel Peace Prize; the child soldier in
Sierra Leone; and every one of the 23 members of what he calls the
UN family killed by a truck bomb in Iraq. Separate chapters on
Africa and the Middle East reveal Annan s special concern with some
of the world s biggest challenges, ongoing in an era of crises in
Syria, Egypt, and beyond.Since leaving the UN, Kofi Annan has
established his own Foundation in Geneva and serves as Chairman of
the the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), the
Elders and the Africa Progress Panel. He received the very first
MacArthur Award for International Justice; mediated a political
settlement to end the post-election violence in Kenya in 2008;
served as Joint Special Envoy of the UN and the Arab League for
Syria (2012); and published a widely reviewed book, Interventions:
A Life in War and Peace. These and other activities have confirmed
his role as an influential global actor beyond his time at the UN.
This book reminds us how his ideas and priorities were incubated
and, indeed, proclaimed. His words on war, peace, humanity, and man
s inhumanity to man still resonate in many ways and offer many
pointers for maintaining and developing the UN as a vital
instrument for humanity in the coming decades. "
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