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.