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"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide (2002) is a book by American Samantha Power, at that time Professor of Human Rights Practice at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, which explores the United States's understanding of, response to, and inaction on genocides in the 20th century, from the Armenian genocide to the "ethnic cleansings" of the Kosovo War.
Power is a subject of the 2014 documentary Watchers of the Sky, which explains the contribution of several notable people, including Power, to the cause of genocide prevention. She won a Pulitzer Prize in 2003 for her book A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide, a study of the U.S. foreign policy response to genocide.
That book includes her visit to Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge and interview of Pol Pot. Rithy Panh made the documentary film Bophana based on an excerpt of the book. Her early investigation of the Khmer Rouge was detailed in A Problem from Hell; America in the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power.
Alex Smith, a public health expert working in the humanitarian field, read all of Samantha Power’s books before he joined the agency she now leads. He carried around copies with him, and even ...
Samantha Power, USAID administrator and former U.S. ambassador to the U.N., talks with Rachel Maddow about President Joe Biden describing Russia's conduct in its war on Ukraine as "genocide," and ...
Book Subject matter January 6, 2002: ... Samantha Power: A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide: Genocide; United States non-interventionism: June 23 ...
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In Samantha Power's 2002 landmark work on genocide in the 20th century, A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide, Sen. Dallaire features largely in the recounting of the Rwanda Genocide. Power also wrote the foreword to Dallaire's book, Shake Hands with the Devil.