Samantha Power

Samantha Power (Ireland) was one of Barack Obama’s advisors. Her area of expertise is genocide and human rights violations. She is also affiliated with Harvard University, where she heads the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. For her book Een probleem uit de hel (A Problem from Hell), she received the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

In mid-May, De man die de wereld wilde redden (The Man Who Wanted to Save the World) is published by Uitgeverij Contact, about the life of Sérgio Vieira de Mello. He worked for the UN in the conflict zones of Cambodia, Lebanon, Bosnia and Iraq, and died in a terrorist attack on the UN headquarters in Iraq in 2003. The career of this UN official is a cross-section of the conflicts the UN has faced in its struggle for world peace. Samantha Power uses his life as a guiding thread in this book about the history of the UN and the major dilemmas faced by the organisation and its staff.