Beyond the White House: Engaging in Peace, Health, and Empowerment

The story of President Jimmy Carter's post-presidency, the most admired and productive in the nation's history, has been received with the admiring respect of reviewers and readers. Through The Carter Center, which he and Rosalynn Carter founded in 1982, Carter has fought neglected diseases, waged peace in war zones, and built hope among some of the most forgotten and needy people in the world. Serving in more than seventy nations, Carter has led peacekeeping efforts for Ethiopia, North Korea, Haiti, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Uganda, and Sudan, and his colleagues from The Carter Center have monitored more than sixty-five elections in troubled nations, from Palestine to Indonesia.

Carter's bold initiatives, undertaken with dedicated colleagues, have eliminated, prevented, or cured an array of diseases that have been characterized as "neglected" by the World Health Organization and that afflict tens of millions of people unnecessarily. The Carter Center has taught millions of African families how to increase the production of food grains, and Rosalynn Carter has led a vigorous war against the stigma of mental illness around the world.

In his personal and passionate account of his twenty-five years in the service of humanitarian effort that won him the Nobel Peace Prize, Carter writes, "Immersing ourselves among these deprived and suffering people has been a great blessing as it stretched our minds and hearts. The principles of The Carter Center have been the same ones that should characterize our nation, or any individual. They are the beliefs inherent in all the great world religions, including commitments to peace, justice, freedom, humility, forgiveness or an attempt to find accommodation with potential foes, generosity, human rights or fair treatment of others, protection of the environment, and the alleviation of suffering. This is our agenda for the future."

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