Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World

When Samantha Power won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide, many people wondered what she would write for an encore. Her answer is a groundbreaking biography of Sergio Vieira de Mello. In nearly four decades of work for the United Nations, Sergio distinguished himself as the consummate humanitarian, able to negotiate with-and often charm-cold war military dictators, Marxist jungle radicals, reckless warlords, and nationalist and sectarian militia leaders. His life, and death in a terrorist attack on UN Headquarters in Iraq in 2003, helps frame many of the world's crises and humanitarian challenges of the last few decades.

By taking the measure of this remarkable man's life and career, Power offers a fascinating answer to the question: Who possesses the moral authority, the political sense, and the military and economic heft to protect human life and bring peace to the unruly new world order?

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News & Politics

Tags:

• Human
• Rights
• Iraq
• United
• Nations

[rodolfete1]

Read the book. An excellent read- like a novel. Thanks Samantha!!

[TheRachel33]

He is an Hero for me, I am someday going to work as good as him because i trully have the same passion

[nadomo]

Orgulho brasileiro! Sem dúvida, um exemplo de herói de verdade!

[KnifeFan]

AAHM

[TheRachel33]

When we talk about ancient rates is complicated. However i think he tried his best for serbians or whoever.

[MarkoKraguljac]

Good morning America!

Is this video a shy observation that Emperors are naked? Well, they are! But they are aware of that and simply don't care nowadays.

So, please stop reshuffling and pondering about their puppet candidates and start cutting your military budget and turn a new (old?) page.

And your caution about Sergio's attitude toward Serbs should really worry you. He was one of very few powerful people who knew how things were. May he rest in peace. If really dead, that is.

[cubaricam]

these guys ride hybrids and smell their own intestinal gas while kissing each other (please, refer to the top philosopher of our times: Eric Cartman)...ugh...what a bunch of senseless left-wing rubbish