Effective Peacekeeping in the 21st Century
by Samantha Power
The following article based on the speech delivered by the Ambassador Samantha Power, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, U.S. Mission to the United Nations, in New Delhi, India
( November 21, 2015, New Delhi, Sri Lanka Guardian) Hours before India gained its independence on August 15, 1947, Nehru delivered what you and the world now know as his “tryst with destiny” speech. Most great independence speeches look inward – setting out a vision for a people who, for the first time, have won the right to define who they are and who they aspire to be. But what distinguished this speech, and the national product that Nehru so eloquently set out, was that, from its genesis, India looked outwards as well as inwards – seeing its responsibilities as extending to people far beyond its borders.
