Amb. Peter Galbraith

Amb. Peter W. Galbraith is an author, commentator, policy advisor, and former diplomat. From 1993 to 1998, he served as the first US Ambassador to Croatia, where he negotiated and signed the 1995 Erdut Agreement that ended the Croatian War of Independence. From 2000 to 2001, Amb. Galbraith was the Director for Political, Constitutional and Electoral Affairs for the UN Mission in East Timor and a cabinet minister in East Timor’s first transitional government. In 2009, he was an Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations serving in Afghanistan. From 1979 to 1993, he was a staff member for the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, where he managed the State Department authorization legislation and wrote laws to protect the global environment, prevent nuclear proliferation and promote human rights. Galbraith has more than three decades of on-the-ground experience in Iraqi Kurdistan and Rojava, having documented Iraq’s destruction of Kurdish villages and use of chemical weapons for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in the 1980s. He was in Iraqi Kurdistan during the 1991 uprising and was an advisor to the Iraqi Kurdish leaders during the negotiations on the Iraqi Constitution. He is the author of two books and numerous articles on Iraq, Syria and the Kurds including the best seller, The End of Iraq. He has been a regular visitor to Rojava, most recently reuniting young Yazidi women kidnapped by ISIS with their children.