The peacemakers : leadership lessons from twentieth-century statesmanship / Bruce W. Jentleson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction does history make statesmen or do statesmen make history? -- Henry Kissinger, Zhou Enlai, and the U.S.-China opening, 1971-1972 -- Mikhail Gorbachev : ending the Cold War, 1985-1991 -- Wilson and FDR : failure of the League of Nations, birth of the United Nations -- UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjøld : the "secular pope," 1953-1961 -- Nelson Mandela, iconic statesman of reconciliation, 1989-1999 -- Yitzhak Rabin, soldier as peacemaker, 1992-1995 -- Mairead Corrigan and Betty Williams, Northern Ireland women for peace, 1972-1977 -- Gandhi : exemplar of anticolonialism, apostle of nonviolence, 1914-1948 -- Lech Walesa : from communism to democracy, 1980-1990 -- Aung San Suu Kyi : a cautionary tale, 1988-2015, 2016 -- Peter Benenson, Amnesty International and the global human rights movement, 1961-1967 -- Gro Harlem Brundtland : our common future, 1987-2003 -- Gates Foundation and global health : philanthropy statesmanship, 2000- -- Epilogue : twenty- first- century statesmanship : difficult, possible, necessary.

"Great leaders made the twentieth century safer and more peaceful. In The Peacemakers, a kind of global edition of John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage, Bruce Jentleson shows how key figures in the previous century rewrote the zero-sum and transactional scripts they were handed and successfully prevented conflict, advanced human rights, and promoted global sustainability. Covering a broad range of historical examples, from Yitzhak Rabin's efforts for Arab-Israeli peace to Dag Hammarskjöld's effectiveness as secretary-general of the United Nations and Mahatma Gandhi's pioneering use of nonviolence as a political tool, Jentleson argues that individuals can shape policy--because they have. For each leader, Jentleson tells us who they were as an individual, why they made the choices they did, how they pursued their goals, and what they were able to achieve. An ambitious book for ambitious people, The Peacemakers is a useful guide for anybody who wants to achieve meaningful change on the global stage."--Provided by publisher.