Samantha Power, winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for her book, “A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide,” will discuss U.S. policy toward genocide during a lecture at 7:30 p.m., Monday, Nov. 14 in McCrary Theatre, located in the Center for the Arts on the Elon University campus.
Power is professor of practice in public policy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. She analyzes America’s policy toward genocide in the 20th century and why American leaders fail to stop it. She uses exclusive interviews with top policy makers, access to newly declassified information and her own reporting to trace U.S. policy on genocide.
Power was founding executive director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard from 1998 to 2002. She covered the wars in the former Yugoslavia as a reporter for U.S. News & World Report, the Boston Globe and the Economist from 1993 to 1996.
Power is a graduate of Yale University and the Harvard Law School. In addition to “A Problem From Hell,” she serves as editor, with Graham Allison, of “Realizing Human Rights: Moving from Inspiration to Impact.”
Tickets for Power’s lecture are $12 or free for those with valid Elon identification. Tickets can be purchased by calling the McCrary Theatre box office at (336) 278-5610. The box office is open from 12:30 p.m.-5 p.m., Monday-Friday.
Power’s lecture is sponsored by the Liberal Arts Forum and the General Studies program.
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