Chasing the flame : Sergio Vieira de Mello and the fight to save the world
/ Samantha Power
- New York : Penguin Press , 2008.
- xvi, 622 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reveals Sergio Vieira de Mello's powerful legacy of humanity and ideological strength in the context of his troubleshooting attempts in Lebanon in the aftermath of Israel's 1982 invasion; in his taming of the Khmer Rouge and his repatriation of four-hundred-thousand Cambodian refugees in the early nineties; in his efforts to negotiate an end to the slaughter in Bosnia; in his struggle to nation-build in war-torn societies during his quasi-colonial governorships of Kosovo and East Timor; and through his tragic final posting as the UN representative in Baghdad, where he became the victim of the country's first-ever suicide bomb.
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Mello, Sergio Vieira de (1948-2003)
United Nations . High Commission for Human Rights.
War relief Peace building Iraq War, 2003- United Nations----Biography Diplomats---Brazil----Biography