Charles F. Dunbar Department of International Relations Boston University 152 Bay State Road Boston, Massachusetts 02215 Telephone: 617-353-5633, Fax: 617-353-9290, cfdunbar@bu.edu LECTURER OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, BOSTON UNIVERSITY 2011-2012 Teach courses on U.S. foreign policy, the Middle East political economy, the Muslim and Western worlds, and United Nations peacekeeping. PREVIOUS PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES PROFESSOR OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, BOSTON UNIVERSITY 2004-2011 Taught courses on U.S. foreign policy, the Middle East political economy, the Muslim and Western worlds, and United Nations peacekeeping. Spoke widely on current affairs at Boston University and at academic and other meetings in the Boston area and beyond. Appears and writes in the local and regional media. WARBURG PROFESSOR IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, SIMMONS COLLEGE 2001-2004 Led seminars and taught and courses on U.S. foreign policy, North-South Relations, U.N. peacekeeping, Islam and the West, and North-South Relations. Spoke widely on various topics in international relations at academic meetings and to civic and professional groups in the Boston area and around the country and commented on current events in the electronic and print media. CLEVELAND COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAIRS PRESIDENT 1993-2000 Organized the major programs of the 501(c)(3) Cleveland Council on World Affairs. The Council has 1250 members in Northeast Ohio, an annual budget of $600,000 and a staff of nine. It holds a four-part major speaker series as well as some forty other programs each year, gives students and teachers occasions to participate in foreign-affairs related programs and workshops, welcomes 150 international visitors to Cleveland each year and sponsors study tours abroad. ADJUNCT PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL SCIENCE, CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY Taught courses on United Nations peacekeeping, the Political Economy of the Middle East and United States foreign policy to undergraduate and graduate students and to post-
2 graduates enrolled in the University s Senior Scholars program. Served as Senior Advisor to the University s Center for Policy Studies. U.N. SECRETARY-GENERAL S SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR WESTERN SAHARA 1998-99 On leave from the Cleveland Council on World Affairs, ran the 500-person, $60-milliona-year United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara with headquarters in Laayoune, Western Sahara. Conducted intensive, often contentious negotiations on the strategy and tactics of organizing the referendum with the Moroccan Prime Minister and Ministers of Interior and Foreign Affairs and with the leadership of the Polisario Front which seeks independence for Western Sahara. Coordinated closely with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and maintained liaison with the President of Mauritania and the Algerian Foreign Minister as parties interested in the Western Sahara problem. Recommended strategies for advancing the referendum process to the Secretary-General and to his Personal Envoy, former Secretary of State James Baker. ADVISOR ON ISLAMIC ISSUES U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE 1991-93 Advised the Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights on Islamic and Middle East issues. Traveled to the Middle East for discussions with governments on human rights concerns and organized a major seminar on political Islam in the State Department. Worked closely with the U.S. and Tunisian Governments in organizing a rule-of-law seminar in Tunis. Served as liaison to a leading human rights group in the U.S. Government s Support of removal from northern Iraq of documents chronicling the Iraqi Government s human rights abuses. U.S. AMBASSADOR TO YEMEN 1988-91 Managed a program in Yemen involving 200 direct-hire Americans and a budget of several million dollars. Oversaw the build-up of U.S.-Yemeni relations culminating in the state visit of Yemen President Saleh to Washington in January 1990 and the rise of U.S. assistance to Yemen to nearly $50 million a year. Assisted American oil companies in negotiating production-sharing agreements in Yemen and provided counsel and support during the Gulf War to the company which developed Yemen s oil industry. Negotiated the understanding with the Government of Yemen that enabled Yemeni Jews to travel abroad and emigrate. SPECIAL ASSISTANT FOR AFGHANISTAN U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE 1985-88 As Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, developed the political strategy which came to underlie U.S. policy towards the Soviet Union s occupation of Afghanistan. Traveled around the world to explain and promote this strategy and worked closely with the Congress and executive branch agencies to obtain the political and material support needed to carry it out. Worked with Afghan resistance leaders, particularly during their visits to Washington.
3 U.S. AMBASSADOR TO QATAR 1983-85 Facilitated negotiations between the U.S. and Qatar on increasing U.S. access to and support for the Qatar armed forces in contingency planning in the Gulf. Began talks on pre-positioning of equipment that would be needed by U.S. forces invited to support Qatar in a national emergency and persuaded the Qatar Government to permit the resumption of visits there by U.S. Navy ships. Organized the first-ever visit by an American cabinet officer to Qatar and supported U.S. interests in Qatar s oil industry. U.S. CHARGĖ D AFFAIRES IN AFGHANISTAN 1981-83 Led the American Embassy in Soviet-occupied Afghanistan. Developed and exploited the sources of information needed to report effectively on all aspects of the Afghan- Soviet war and of life in Kabul under Soviet occupation. Began a long-standing dialogue with the United Nations negotiator brokering an agreement between Pakistan and the Soviet Union to end the war and the Soviet occupation. Contributed analysis and recommendations to the ongoing discussion within the U.S. Government on policy towards Afghanistan. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE ASSIGNMENTS 1962-81 Assigned to the American Embassies in Tehran, Kabul, Rabat, Algiers and Nouakchott (Mauritania), and the American Consulate in Isfahan, Iran. Served as principal political reporting officer and analyst in Kabul, Rabat and Algiers, and as Deputy Chief of Mission, oversaw all aspects of U.S. Mauritanian relations. During seven years of service in Rabat, Algiers, and Nouakchott, became the leading U.S. Government expert on Western Sahara. In a yearlong assignment to State Department Senior Training at Princeton University, did extensive research on Western Sahara and published a monograph on the subject at the end of the assignment. In Isfahan, became an authority on the complexities of the sweeping land reform program launched by the Iranian Government in 1963. PUBLICATIONS Squaring the Circle: Managing an American Foreign Policy Dilemma in the Muslim World, The American Scholar, Volume 72, Number 3, Summer 2003 Saharan Stasis: Status and Future Prospects of the Western Sahara Conflict, The Middle East Journal, Volume No. 4, Fall, 2000
4 Internal Politics in Yemen: Recovery or Regression?, in The Yemeni Civil War of 1994, Edited by Jamal S. al-suwaidi, London, summer 1995 The Unification of Yemen, The Middle East Journal, summer 1992 Afghanistan in 1988, Asian Survey, February 1988 U. S. Policy towards Afghanistan, in Pakistan-U. S. Relations, edited by Noor Hussian and Leo Rose, Berkeley, Institute of East Asian Studies, 1988 Afghanistan in 1987, Asian Survey, February 1987 Inside Wartime Kabul, Asia, November/December 1983 Afghanistan, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, June-July 1983* The Afghan-Soviet War, The Middle East Journal, spring 1982* Ethnicity in the Bilad Shinqit, The SAIS Review,Winter 1982 *Published under the pen-name, Nearby Observer EDUCATION A.B. in history from Harvard College, 1959 M.I.A. from the School of International Affairs, Columbia University, 1961 A year of State Department-sponsored graduate study at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, 1980-81 PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS The Boston Committee on Foreign Relations The Cleveland Council on World Affairs (Trustee) The Council on Foreign Relations French, Persian (Farsi) and Arabic LANGUAGES OTHER THAN ENGLISH November 2012
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