Kofi Annan (1938–2018)
Autore di Interventions: A Life in War and Peace
Sull'Autore
Kofi Atta Annan was born in Kumasi, Ghana on April 8, 1938. He was educated at Macalester College in St. Paul, in Geneva, and at the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His first appointment with a United Nations agency was in 1962, at the World Health mostra altro Organization in Geneva. He returned briefly to Ghana to promote tourism and worked in Ethiopia with the U.N. Economic Commission for Africa before returning to the health organization's European headquarters. He worked in senior human resources and budgetary positions in New York until the early 1990s. He was the head of the United Nations peacekeeping operations from 1993 to 1997 and was head of the United Nations from 1997 until 2007. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2001. His memoir, Interventions: A Life in War and Peace written with Nader Mousavizadeh, was published in 2012. He died on August 18, 2018 at the age of 80. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Opere di Kofi Annan
The Circle of Empowerment: Twenty-five Years of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women… (2007) 11 copie
Towards a culture of prevention : statements by the secretary-general of the united nations (2002) 4 copie
Opere correlate
Raoul Wallenberg: The Heroic Life and Mysterious Disappearance of the Man Who Saved Thousands of Hungarian Jews from… (2012) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni — 98 copie
Sharing the Front Line and the Back Hills: International Protectors and Providers : Peacekeepers, Humanitarian Aid… (2001) — Prefazione — 7 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Annan, Kofi
- Nome legale
- Аннан, Кофи Атта
- Altri nomi
- Аннан, Кофи
- Data di nascita
- 1938-04-08
- Data di morte
- 2018-08-18
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Ghana
- Luogo di nascita
- Kumasi, Ghana
- Luogo di morte
- Bern, Switzerland
- Luogo di residenza
- Geneva, Switzerland
New York, New York, USA - Istruzione
- Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology of Ghana
Macalester College
Graduate Institute of International Studies
MIT Sloan School of Management - Attività lavorative
- Secretary-General of the United Nations (1997-2006)
- Organizzazioni
- United Nations
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Nobel Prize (Peace ∙ 2001)
Olof Palme Prize (2006)
Utenti
Recensioni
Premi e riconoscimenti
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 26
- Opere correlate
- 6
- Utenti
- 236
- Popolarità
- #95,935
- Voto
- 4.1
- Recensioni
- 1
- ISBN
- 40
- Lingue
- 8
- Preferito da
- 1
Look back on the history of the World through the period from the sixteenth to the mid twentieth century and you will find Europe educating the poor savages of Africa, America, Australia and Asia at the barrel end of a gun. There was a genuine belief that domination by mainly Britain, France or Russia, with a little help from Spain, Portugal and Germany, would civilise the ignorant savages of other continents. Too late, we have realised the error of our ways and now, we do not have the power to stand up to the United States who, having once been in the strange place of part exerting and part suffering this patronising oppression, now dish it out with gay abandon.
Nobody can really believe that the Western Alliance had authority to invade Iraq, or that the many thousands of deaths have achieved any increase in World security. Guantanamo Bay and the overt use of torture by America but with implicit British agreement was, and still is, an absolute disgrace: and I say that as a supporter of Tony Blair! Kofi does not take sides, he tries to build bridges, even whilst being steam-rollered by those who see no one's view but their own. I was not there when these decisions were made so, I can only read the account of George Bush, Tony Blair and Kofi Annan and give credence to the most believable version. To my mind, this is it. For that alone, this book is well worth reading - and there is so much more.… (altro)