Peter W Galbraith served as the first US Ambassador to Croatia from 1993 to 1998. He was the principal mediator and author of the 1995 Erdut Agreement that ended the Croatia Homeland War by providing for the peaceful reintegration of Serb-held Eastern Slavonia. From 2000 to 2001, Galbraith was Director for Political, Constitutional, and Electoral Affairs in the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor and Cabinet Member for Political Affairs and Timor Sea in East Timor’s First Transitional Government. He was East Timor’s negotiator with Australia over maritime boundaries resulting in the 2002 Timor Sea Treaty that more than doubled Timor-Leste’s oil revenues as compared to an earlier Australia-Indonesia treaty. This is the only time the United Nations has negotiated a bilateral treaty on behalf of a state. In 2009, Galbraith was the Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary General of the United Nations to Afghanistan. From 2011-to 2015, Galbraith represented Windham County in the Vermont Senate. From 1979 to 1993, Galbraith was a professional staff member for the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee responsible for the Middle East and South Asia. In this role Galbraith uncovered and documented Saddam Hussein’s anfal campaign against the Kurds including the systematic destruction of Kurdish villages and the use of chemical weapons. In response to Galbraith’s report, the US Senate unanimously passed The Prevention of Genocide Act of 1988 that would have imposed comprehensive sanctions on Iraq. Galbraith was in Iraqi Kurdistan during the March 1991 uprising against Saddam. His first hand reports of the dire conditions facing the Kurdish people contributed to the US decision to create a safe haven for the Kurds. Samatha Power featured Galbraith’s work on the Kurdish genocide in her Pulitzer Prize winning book, A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide. In her 1989 autobiography, Daughter of Destiny, Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto credits Galbraith with securing her freedom after three years imprisonment by Pakistani dictator Zia ul Haq. Since 2021 Galbraith has been using his connections with the Iraqi and Syrian Kurds to reunite young Yazidi women held as slaves of ISIS terrorists with the children they were forced to abandon in Syria. Galbraith is the author of two books on the Iraq War, including the best selling The End of Iraq (2006). Pakistan awarded him the Sitara-i-Quad-i-Azam for his work in promoting the restoration of democracy and securing the release from prison of Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto and he has awards from Croatia and the Iraqi Kurdistan parliament. He is Chairman of the Board of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation and an Honorary Fellow of St Catherine’s College, Oxford University.