Samantha Power
A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide

Cosponsored by the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Kennedy School of Government

Weiner Auditorium, Taubman Center at the Kennedy School of Government
79 JFK Street, Cambridge
No tickets are required.

On Monday, March 4th Samantha Power, executive director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, will discuss her new book A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide. Power examines how, in the five decades since the Holocaust, Americans have very rarely marshaled their might to stop genocide and mass terror. By paying particular attention to the last thirty years of world carnage, which coincided with the growth of Holocaust awareness in the United States, Power dissects how the historical memory of the Holocaust can co-exist with an American diplomatic and military policy of non-engagement that has resulted in the loss of millions of lives. Power goes on to set a visionary and yet feasible agenda for how the United States might change course to prevent or halt future genocide.