Samantha Power is a longtime associate of Barack Obama, and she is known to the public as a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for journalism and literature. According to her own definition, she is a "child of Bosnia" (she was born in Ireland in 1970 and moved to the United States when she was nine years old), where she was engaged in uncovering war crimes and protecting human rights. She is the author of the book "A problem from Hell", in which she talks about the American responses to the genocides committed in the 20th century, thereby stimulating debates about the moral responsibility of the United States of America as a superpower. Samantha Power came to Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1993 as a freelance journalist. She later wrote that it was shocking to her, who was 23 at the time, that the victims were targeted not because of what they had done but because of who they were, what their nationality and religion were.