Recension: ”Ett motgift mot hopplöshet och cynism”

Staffan de Mistura (born 25 January 1947) is an Italian-Swedish diplomat, United Nations official and former member of the Italian government. After a 40-year career in various United Nations agencies, he was appointed Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs and thereafter Deputy Foreign Minister in the Italian cabinet headed by Mario Monti. In 2013, he was Director of Operations at the Foundation Villa San Michele in Anacapri. From 2014 to 2019 he was the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria.De Mistura's previous UN posts have included that of Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Iraq (2007–2009) and Afghanistan (2010–2011), Personal Representative of the Secretary-General for Southern Lebanon (2001–2004), and Director of the UN Information Center in Rome (2000–2001). His work has taken him to many of the world's most volatile trouble-spots including Afghanistan, Iraq, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan and the former Yugoslavia.Since September 2019, Staffan de Mistura is Associate Professor at Sciences Po Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA) and he is a distinguished Senior Visiting Fellow at the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs at Yale University.

Sommar, ofta omnämnt som Sommar i P1, är ett program i Sveriges Radio som varje sommar sänds i P1 med start klockan 13:00. Programledarna är särskilt inbjudna "sommarvärdar" (eller "sommarpratare"), som ansvarar för var sin dag. De presenterar sig själva, talar om fritt valda ämnen och spelar musik som de själva valt. I regel väljs aktuella personer till sommarvärdar. Sommar har en motsvarighet i december som heter Vinter (även kallat Vinter i P1).