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Peter Galbraith discusses 'The End of
Iraq'
28.6.2007
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June
28, 2007
BELLOWS FALLS -- Village Square Booksellers
and Rockingham Public Library will co-host an
evening with author and diplomat Peter Galbraith, on
Thursday, July 5, at 7 p.m., at the library.
Galbraith will discuss his critically acclaimed
book, "The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence
Created a War Without End" (2006).
Galbraith's career of humanitarian service and
negotiating expertise for the United States is
outstanding, exemplary and diverse. He has served as
the first U.S. Ambassador to Croatia, was actively
involved in the Croatia and Bosnia peace processes
and was responsible for U.S. humanitarian programs
in the former Yugoslavia. He has held senior
positions in the U.S. Government and the United
Nations.
As a senior advisor to the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee, he authored reports on ethnic cleansing
in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Iran-Iraq War, the Iraqi
Kurds, U.S.-India relations, nuclear proliferation
in South Asia and the Cambodian famine. |
Former U.S. State Department Official, Peter
Galbraith |
As a senior legal advisor to United Nations
Environment Program, Galbraith helped to draft
treaties on biological diversity and environmental
impact assessment.
"A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of
Genocide," Samantha Power's Pulitzer Prize-winning
book, chronicles Galbraith's work in Iraq beginning
in the early 1980s, with the exposure of Saddam
Hussein's murderous "al-anfal" campaign against the
Iraqi Kurds, and which led the U.S. Senate to pass
comprehensive sanctions on Iraq in 1988.
During the 1991 uprising, Galbraith traveled
throughout rebel-held northern Iraq, narrowly
escaping across the Tigris as Iraqi forces
recaptured the area. His written and televised
accounts provided early warning of the catastrophe
overtaking the civilian population and contributed
to the decision to create a safe haven in northern
Iraq.
The Kurds in the north don’t want to be part of Iraq, and in a referendum
in 2005, 98 percent voted for independence.
In 1992, Galbraith brought 14 tons of captured Iraqi
secret police documents out of northern Iraq which
detailed atrocities against the Kurds. In 2003, he
resigned from U.S. government after 24 years of
service in order to be able to criticize U.S. Iraq
policy more freely. He is the author of numerous
articles on Iraq. His book, "The End of Iraq: How
American Incompetence Created a War Without End,"
(Simon and Schuster), was released in July 2006.
Currently, he is the Senior Diplomatic Fellow at the
Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation and a
principal at the Windham Resources Group LLC.
Galbraith is the son of political economist John
Kenneth Galbraith and is married to Norwegian social
anthropologist Dr. Tone Bringa and has three
children. He lives in Townshend.
This is a partnership of Rockingham Free Public
Library and Village Square Booksellers. This event
is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be
served.
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