I wanted to be part of something life-changingI was drawn to The Carter Center after moving to Atlanta in 1987. President Jimmy Carter and Karin Ryan shown during a 1990 Carter-Menil Human Rights Prize selection committee meeting. President Carter once dropped into my office asking why I hadn't sent him any cases recently. AdvertisementIn the wake of his peacemaking efforts in North Korea, Bosnia, and Haiti in 1994, we organized a closed-door discussion with U.S.-based human rights leaders critical of his engagements with human rights violators. AdvertisementAs a Cold War president, Carter walked a tightrope of managing relationships with world leaders while speaking out against human rights abuses.

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Persons: Jimmy Carter, Karin Ryan, Carter, I've, He's, It's, David, —, he's, hadn't, Rosalynn —, Kim Il Sung, Radovan Karadzic, Raoul Cédras, Ariel Sharon, Andrei Sakharov Organizations: Carter Center, Carter, Rights, Menil, U.S, Criminal Court, United Nations Security, Foreign Affairs, Israeli, David Accords Locations: Atlanta, Panama Canal, Haiti, Iraq, Nepal, North Korea, Bosnia, Soviet Union, Argentina, China, Israel, Egypt, U.S, United States