Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
I N T E RV E N T IONS
A Life in War and Peace
Kofi A n na n
w ith
Na der Mousav iz a deh
t h e pe ngu i n pr e s s
New York
2012
Preface
THE A RC OF
IN TERV EN TION
W
hat do we stand for as a global community? What are the
responsibilities for our common fate in a world that is si-
multaneously coming together and coming apart—and how
do we exercise those responsibilities? How do we strike the balance be-
tween growth and development, equality and opportunity, human rights
and human security? And where does the United Nations—an organiza-
tion founded nearly seventy years ago in San Francisco to prevent an-
other world war—fit into a world transformed by forces of globalization
and technology that are not defined by boundaries of nation or ideology?
We stand at the crossroads of a global realignment as momentous
as the one faced by the UN’s founders in 1945. While the past quarter
century has witnessed an extraordinary escape from poverty on the part
of hundreds of millions in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, the scourges
of war, terror, and weapons of mass destruction still remain as present as
ever. What has changed is the power of individuals—men and women in
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Accra and Geneva
May 2012
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