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Samantha Power "is a professor of practice at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. Her recent book, A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide, was awarded the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction, the 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award for general non-fiction, and the Council on Foreign Relations' Arthur Ross Prize for the best book in US foreign policy.
"Prof. Power was the founding executive director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy (1998-2002). From 1993-1996, she covered the wars in the former Yugoslavia as a reporter for the US News and World Report, the Boston Globe, and the Economist. She currently contributes to the New Yorker and The New York Review of Books. Prof. Power is the editor, with Graham Allison, of Realizing Human Rights: Moving from Inspiration to Impact (St. Martin's, 2000). A graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School, she moved to the United States from Ireland at the age of nine. She is currently working on a book on the United Nations." [1]
She is a director of the International Center for Transitional Justice and is on the strategy committee for the Project on Justice in Times of Transition.
Affiliations
- Atrocity Prevention Board – executive director[1]
- International Crisis Group (ICG) political analyst(1996)[2]
- International Rescue Committee Director
- U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea - Board of directors
- Genocide Intervention Network Endorser
- Witness Advisory Committee
- Council on Foreign Relations: Arthur Ross Book Award Winner of the 2003
- Genocide Watch Advisory Board[3]
- Investors Against Genocide Supporter[4]
External links
- Biography, International Center for Transitional Justice, Accessed December 2006.
Critical Articles
- Edward S. Herman, Richard Holbrooke, Samantha Power, and the “Worthy-Genocide” Establishment (Kafka Era Studies Number 5), Znet, March 24, 2007.
- Paul Street, "‘Calibrating' HOPE in the Effort to ‘Patrol the Commons': Samantha Power and the Hidden Imperial Reality of Barack Obama, ZNet, 26 February 2008.
- Chase Madar, Samantha Power and the Weaponization of Human Rights: Care Tactics, Counterpunch, 10 September 2009.
Resources and articles
Related Sourcewatch articles
References
- ↑ Richard Falk, Opening the other eye: Charles Taylor and selective accountability, Al Jazeera, 1 May 2012
- ↑ Directors and Advisors, Genocide Watch, accessed April 15, 2008.
- ↑ Supporters, Investors Against Genocide, accessed August 4, 2008.
