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Interventions: A Life in War and Peace

✍ Scribed by Kofi Annan; Nader Mousavizadeh


Publisher
Penguin Books
Year
2013
Tongue
English
Leaves
400
Edition
Paperback
Category
Library

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✦ Synopsis


Interventions: A Life in War and Peace is a memoir by former Secretary-General of the United Nations and 2001 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Kofi Annan. The book focuses on the workings of the United Nations Secretariat and the conditions under which the Secretary General has to take decisions. The book is mainly set in the Post–Cold War era when Annan served as the Deputy Secretary General (1993 to 1996) and then as the Secretary General (1997 to 2006) of the United Nations. The book has been co-written with his former advisor and speechwriter Nader Mousavizadeh.


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