Boutros Boutros-Ghali's 'An Agenda for Peace'

This book discusses the former United Nations' Secretary, Boutrous Boutrous Ghali's Agenda for Peace. Mr Boutros-Ghali was born on 14 November 1922 into a Coptic Christian family in Cairo, and educated at Cairo University and in Paris, where he established a lifelong connection with France. He went on to study international relations at Columbia University in New York and became Egypt's foreign minister in 1977, under president Anwar al-Sadat. After leaving the UN, Mr Boutros-Ghali served from 1998 to 2002 as secretary general of La Francophonie - a grouping of French-speaking nations. In 2004, he was named the president of Egypt's new human rights council, a body created by then-Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak amid US pressure on Arab nations for democratic reform. In terms of a positive legacy, Ban Ki-moon, his successor as UN chief, praised the dramatic rise of blue-helmeted peacekeeping on his watch. In a landmark report entitled Agenda for Peace, Boutros-Ghali also emphasized the importance of post conflict peace building, which informs a lot of UN thinking to this day.

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Prof. Dr. Kemal Yildirim ist Autor von mehr als zweihundert Büchern und 500 Artikeln, die in Fachzeitschriften veröffentlicht wurden Er ist auch Filmemacher mit mehr als zwanzig Spiel- und Dokumentarfilmen Er arbeitet derzeit an östlicher Philosophie.

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This book discusses the former United Nations' Secretary, Boutrous Boutrous Ghali's Agenda for Peace. Mr Boutros-Ghali was born on 14 November 1922 into a Coptic Christian family in Cairo, and educated at Cairo University and in Paris, where he established a lifelong connection with France. He went on to study international relations at Columbia University in New York and became Egypt's foreign minister in 1977, under president Anwar al-Sadat. After leaving the UN, Mr Boutros-Ghali served from 1998 to 2002 as secretary general of La Francophonie - a grouping of French-speaking nations. In 2004, he was named the president of Egypt's new human rights council, a body created by then-Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak amid US pressure on Arab nations for democratic reform. In terms of a positive legacy, Ban Ki-moon, his successor as UN chief, praised the dramatic rise of blue-helmeted peacekeeping on his watch. In a landmark report entitled Agenda for Peace, Boutros-Ghali also emphasized the importance of post conflict peace building, which informs a lot of UN thinking to this day.