Kofi Annan
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Kofi Atta Annan, a Ghanai diplomat who served as the country's seventh Secretary-General from January 1997 to December 2006, served from January 1997 to December 2006.
The Nobel Peace Prize's 2001 winners, Annan and the United Nations, were among the recipients.
He served as the founder and chairman of the Kofi Annan Foundation, as well as chairman of The Elders, a multi-national institute founded by Nelson Mandela.Annan studied economics at Macalester College, international relations at the Graduate Institute Geneva, and management at MIT.
Annan began working with the World Health Organisation's Geneva office in 1962.
He went on to work at the UN Headquarters, including as the Under-Secretary General for peacekeeping from March 1992 to 1996.
He was appointed by the Security Council on December 13, 1996, and the General Assembly later confirmed him, making him the first office holder to be elected from the UN staff itself.
He was re-elected for a second term in 2001, and Ban Ki-moon succeeded him as Secretary-General on January 1, 2007. Annan, the UN enlightened the UN bureaucracy; began to combat HIV/AIDS, especially in Africa; and introduced the UN Global Compact.
After an inquiry into the Oil-for-Food Programme that resulted in an investigation, he was chastised for not expanding the Security Council and faced calls for his resignation, but largely cleared of personal misconduct.
He founded the Kofi Annan Foundation in 2007 to work on international development after the completion of his term as UN Secretary General.
Annan served as the UN-Arab League Joint Special Representative for Syria in 2012 to help find a solution to the country's escalating conflict.
Annan resigned after becoming dissatisfied with the UN's inability in dealing with conflict resolution.
Annan was appointed in September 2016 to lead a UN commission investigating the Rohingya crisis.
Early years and education
On April 8, 1938, Kofi Annan was born in Kumasi, now Ghana). Efua Atta, his twin sister who died in 1991, shared Atta, which means "twin" in Akan terms. Annan and his sister were born into one of the country's Fante aristocratic families; both of their grandfathers and uncle were Fante paramount chiefs.
According to the day of the week they were born, some children are named according to the number of children they were born, others in a sense of how many children preceded them. Kofi in Akan means "today" in the days when Annan was born on Friday. Annan, the last name in Fante, denotes a fourth-born baby. In English, Annan said that his surname rhymes with "cannon" rhymes with "cannon."
Annan attended Mfantsipim, an all-boys Methodist boarding school in Cape Coast that was established in the 1870s from 1954 to 1957. "Suffering somewhere, worries people everywhere," Annan said. The Gold Coast gained independence from the United Kingdom in 1957, when Annan graduated from Mfantsipim, coining the phrase "Ghana" instead.
Annan began studying economics at the Kumasi College of Science and Technology, now the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology of Ghana in 1958. In 1961, he received a Ford Foundation scholarship, enabling him to complete his undergraduate studies in economics at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. Annan earned a DEA degree in International Relations at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland, from 1961 to 1962. He attended the MIT Sloan School of Management (1971–72) in the Sloan Fellows program and earned a master's degree in leadership after many years of work experience.
Annan was fluent in English, French, Akan, and several Kru languages, as well as other African languages.
Personal life
Annan married Titi Alakija, a Nigerian woman from an aristocratic family, in 1965. Ama, their daughter, and Kojo, their son, followed. In the late 1970s, the couple wed and divorced in 1983.
Annan married Nane Lagergren, a Swedish advocate at the United Nations and a maternal half-niece of diplomat Raoul Wallenberg in 1984. Nina is a child of a previous marriage.
Annan's brother, Kobina, was Ghana's ambassador to Morocco.
Diplomatic career
Annan began as a budget officer for the World Health Organization, an United Nations body (UN). He worked as a director of Accra's state-owned Ghana Tourist Development Company from 1974 to 1976. In 1980, he took over the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) in Geneva. He was a member of the International School of Geneva's governing board from 1981 to 1983. He took over the UN Secretariat's administrative service in New York in 1983. Annan was appointed as an assistant secretary-general for Human Resource Management and Security Coordinator for the UN system in 1987. He became Assistant Secretary-General for Program Planning, Budget and Finance, and Control in 1990.
Annan was posted as Deputy to then Under-Secretary-General Marrack Goulding when Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali established the Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) in 1992. Annan was later promoted as Under-Secretary-General of the department in March 1993. While Boutros-Ghali was unreachable on an aeroplane, Annan ordered United Nations officials to "relinquish for a brief period of time" that Bosnia's air strikes had been "vetoed." This step enabled NATO forces to deploy Operation Deliberate Force, making him a favorite of the US. Annan's "brave performance" convinced the US that he would be a good substitute for Boutros-Ghali, according to Richard Holbrooke.
He was named a special representative of the Minister of the former Yugoslavia from November 1995 to March 1996.
Annan was overly passive in his reaction to the impending genocide in 2003, according to former Canadian general Roméo Dallaire, force commander of the UN Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR). Dallaire's book Shake Hands with the Devil: Humanity in Rwanda (2003) said Annan prevented UN troops from assisting the conflict and away from providing more logistical and material assistance. Annan's repeated faxes requesting for access to a weapons depository, according to Dallaire, and such weapons may have aided Dallaire in their defense of the endangered Tutsis. "I could and should have done more to raise the alarm and boost support" in 2004, ten years after the genocide in which over 800,000 people were killed, Annan said.
Annan said in his book Interventions: A Life in War and Peace, that the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations may have used the media to raise concerns of the war in Rwanda and put pressure on governments to deploy the troops required for an intervention. Annan explained that the events in Somalia and the demise of the UNOSOM II mission had sparked a hesitance among UN member states to encourage robust peacekeeping operations. As a result, when the UNAMIR mission was approved just days after the war, the resulting force was lacking the troop numbers, equipment, and mandate to function effectively.
Post-UN career
Annan took up residence in Geneva and served in a key role in a variety of international humanitarian efforts following his time as UN secretary-general.
Annan founded the Kofi Annan Foundation in 2007, an independent, not-for-profit group that "aims to foster improved global control and increase the capacities of people and countries to live a more prosperous, more secure world."
Fair and prosperous societies are based on three pillars: peace and stability, sustainable growth, and the rule of law, and the organization has made it their mission to mobilize the leadership and political will to combat threats to these three pillars, ranging from violent conflict to flawed voting and climate change to "a happier, more peaceful world."
To ensure that these goals are fulfilled, the Foundation provides the analytical, collaboration, and coordination capabilities needed. Annan's contribution to global peace is provided by mediation, political training, advocacy, and guidance. Annan's involvement in the local and international conflict resolution capacities. The Foundation provides the analytical and logistical assistance to facilitate this in collaboration with key local, regional, and international actors. The Foundation concentrates on private diplomacy, where Annan provided informal assistance and participated in discreet diplomatic efforts to prevent or solve crises by using his experience and inspiration. He was often asked to intervene in crises, sometimes as a unbiased mediator and others as a special representative of the international community. He had been providing such assistance to Burkina Faso, Kenya, Myanmar, Senegal, Iraq, and Colombia in recent years.
Following the outbreak of violence in Kenya following the 2007 presidential elections, the African Union (AU) formed a committee of Eminent African Personalities to support in finding a nonviolent solution to the crisis. Annan was appointed chair of the committee and joined by Benjamin Mkapa, the former president of Tanzania, and humanitarian Graça Machel, the former first lady of Mozambique and South Africa.
The panel managed to convince the two key players in the conflict, President Mwai Kibaki's Party of National Unity (PNU) and Raila Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement (ODM), to participate in the Kenya National Dialogue and Reconciliation Process (KNDR). Several agreements on taking steps to prevent the violence and determining its consequences were reached over the course of 41 days of talks. President Kibaki and Odinga signed a coalition government deal on February 28.
Annan was named UN and Arab League joint special envoy to Syria on February 23rd, 2012, in an attempt to put an end to the civil war that was ongoing.He developed a six-point plan for peace:
He resigned as envoy to Syria on August 2nd, citing both the Assad government and the rebels' intransigence, as well as the Security Council's stalemate as preventing a peaceful resolution of the crisis. Annan also stated that the lack of international unity and ineffective diplomacy among world leaders had made the political settlement in Syria an impossible challenge.
Annan served as the chair of the Global Commission on Elections, Democracy, and Security. The commission was established in May 2011 as a joint venture of the Kofi Annan Foundation and the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance. It brought together 12 influential figures from around the world, including Ernesto Zedillo, Martti Ahtisaari, Madeleine Albright, and Amartya Sen, in an attempt to highlight the importance of elections to a more prosperous, prosperous, and stable world. In September 2012, the Commission published its final report, titled Deepening Democracy, a Project to Increase the Integrity of Elections Worldwide.
Annan was asked to lead the Advisory Commission on Rakhine State, Myanmar, an impoverished area bounded by ethnic conflict and extreme sectarian strife, particularly by Myanmar's Buddhist majority against the Rohingya Muslim minority, which was also threatened by government forces. Many Myanmar Buddhists had sluggish interference in their relations with the Rohingya, with the commission, more commonly known as the "Annan Commission."
The Annan commission's final report, released this week, the week of August 24, 2017, with allegations that have angered both directions and bloodshed, the Rohingya conflict erupted, causing the majority of the Rohingya civilian crisis in the region in decades, causing the bulk of the Rohingya revolt. Annan attempted to contact the United Nations to investigate the situation, but it fell short.
Annan died a week before the first anniversary of the study's release, shortly after an announcement by a replacement commission that it did not "point fingers" at the guilty parties, sparking widespread fear that the new commission was just a sham to shield impoverished Myanmar government officials and citizens from liability.
Myanmar's civilian government under State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi's leadership made a show of acknowledging the Annan commission's recommendations by convening another board – the Annan commission's Recommendations Commission – but never really carried out the Annan commission's plans in 2018. Many of the international ambassadors resigned, including Thailand's former foreign minister Surakiart Sathirayayayai and former US ambassador to the United States Bill Richardson, who condemned the "implementation" committee as ineffective or a "whitewash."
Annan joined Investcorp Bank B. S. C. Europe, an international private equity company and a sovereign wealth fund owned by the UAE in March 2011. He was in charge of the position until 2018.
Annan joined the Global Advisory Board of Macro Advisory Partners LLP, a London and New York City-based risk and strategic consultancy company with some operations connected to Investcorp.
Annan began collaborating with many organisations with both global and African emphasis, including the following:
Annan served as chair of The Elders, a group of international leaders who work together on peace and human rights issues. Annan and her companions Jimmy Carter and Graça Machel, along with a few others, went to Zimbabwe in November 2008 to give a first-hand account of the country's humanitarian crisis. The Elders then conducted their review from Johannesburg, where they met Zimbabwe- and South Africa-based politicians from politics, industry, international organisations, and civil society. Annan traveled to the country with elders Desmond Tutu and Mary Robinson in May 2011, hoping to promote national unity in the aftermath of months of civil strife in Côte d'Ivoire. Annan attended the One Young World Summit in Dublin on October 16th, 2014. Annan encouraged 1,300 young leaders from 191 countries to lead on intergenerational issues such as climate change and the need for action now, not tomorrow:
Annan chaired the Africa Progress Panel (APP), a group of ten leading figures in Africa who promote equitable and sustainable growth. In addition to convening decision makers to influence policy and create lasting change in Africa, as chair, he facilitated coalition building to leverage and broker knowledge. Every year, the Africa Progress Report, which highlights an issue of immediate concern to the continent and recommends a series of related policies, is published. The 2014 study highlighted the promise of African fisheries, agriculture, and forests as a catalyst for economic growth. The 2015 study discusses the role of climate change and the promise of renewable energy investments in determining Africa's economic future.
Annan With Nader Mousadeh wrote a memoir titled Interventions: A Life in War and Peace on September 4, 2012. The book, which has been published by Penguin Press, has been described as a "personal biography of global statecraft."