Marrack Goulding

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KCMG
Goulding seated in a UN uniform
Marrack Goulding in 1992
Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations
In office
1 January 1986 – July 1997
Personal details
Born(1936-09-02)2 September 1936
St Paul's School
Magdalen College, Oxford

Sir Marrack Goulding KCMG (2 September 1936 – 9 July 2010) was a British diplomat who served more than eleven years as Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations.

Early life

Born in

Literae Humaniores at Magdalen College, Oxford.[2]

Career

HM Diplomatic Service

Goulding entered

Head of Chancery of the British Embassy in Tripoli, Libya, and later of the Embassy in Cairo, Egypt.[2]

Goulding spent the following few years in the UK, working first in the Foreign Office as

United Kingdom Mission to the United Nations in New York City in 1979. In 1983, he was appointed Ambassador for the United Kingdom to Angola and São Tomé and Príncipe, and served in this capacity until 1985.[2][3]

United Nations

On 1 January 1986, Goulding became Under-Secretary-General (USG) of the United Nations for Special Political Affairs,[2][4] serving under Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar. From then until March 1993, he headed peacekeeping operations for the UN,[5][6] and presided over the creation of the

Department of Peacekeeping Operations in 1992, during the term of Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali.[7]
According to Simon Chesterman of the New York University School of Law, the period of Goulding's service as head of UN peacekeeping – which saw the initiation of sixteen new missions – "may come to be regarded as its heyday".[5]

In March 1993, Goulding became USG for

Political Affairs.[5] During his tenure at the UN, which ended in July 1997[2] during the first term of Secretary-General Kofi Annan, he was "effectively the second most powerful man in the UN".[8]

St Antony's College, Oxford

Goulding became Warden of St Antony's College at the University of Oxford on 1 October 1997, having been appointed in November of the previous year. He held this position until his retirement on 30 September 2006.[2]

Post-UN political activities

Goulding was one of 52 former British diplomats who, in 2004, signed a letter criticising British policy in the Middle East. While the government discounted the criticisms raised in the letter, Goulding suggested that the opinions expressed therein were also held by current employees of the Foreign Office.[9]

He had also, on a separate occasion, called for the withdrawal of American military forces from Iraq and the transfer of authority over security operations to a UN-sanctioned multinational force from Arab and Muslim countries.[10]

Publications

Goulding was the author of Peacemonger (2003), an account of the inner workings of the United Nations and its activities during his tenure.[11] He has also published articles in various academic journals, including African Affairs[12] and International Affairs.[13]

Goulding was a recipient of the Duke of Westminster's Medal for Military Literature, awarded by the Royal United Services Institute for authorship of books that make "a notable and original contribution to the study of international and national security and defence".[14]

See also

References

  1. ISBN 9781857432176
    . Retrieved 29 June 2017.
  2. ^ a b c d e f "The Warden". St Antony's College. University of Oxford. Archived from the original on 25 September 2006. Retrieved 5 November 2007.
  3. ^ Cahill, Kevin M. (2000). Preventive Diplomacy: Stopping Wars Before They Start. New York City:
    ISBN 978-0-415-92285-2
    . Retrieved 5 November 2007.
  4. ^ Jonah, James O.C. (2004). "The United Nations". In Adekeye Adebajo and Ismail Rashid (ed.). West Africa's Security Challenges: Building Peace in a Troubled Region. Lynne Rienner Publishers. p. 326.
    ISBN 978-1-58826-284-4
    . Retrieved 5 November 2007.
  5. ^ a b c Chesterman, Simon (2004). You, the People: The United Nations, Transitional Administration, and State-Building.
    ISBN 978-0-19-928400-9
    . Retrieved 5 November 2007.
  6. ^ "Iraq offers access". BBC. 17 September 2002. Retrieved 5 November 2007.
  7. ^ Kanninen, Tapio (1995). Leadership and Reform: The Secretary-General and the UN Financial Crisis of the Late 1980s. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. p. 282.
    ISBN 978-90-411-0102-0
    . Retrieved 5 November 2007.
  8. ^ Hodge, Carol (2006). Britain and the Balkans: 1991 until the present.
    ISBN 978-0-415-29889-6
    . Retrieved 5 November 2007.
  9. ^ Tempest, Matthew (27 April 2004). "Minister rejects attack on foreign policy". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 November 2007.
  10. ^ "Tories urge bigger UN role in Iraq". BBC. 13 April 2004. Retrieved 5 November 2007.
  11. ^ Goulding, Marrack (2003). Peacemonger.
    ISBN 978-0-8018-7858-9
    . Marrack Goulding.
  12. ^ Goulding, Marrack (April 1999). "The United Nations and Conflict in Africa since the Cold War".
    JSTOR 723624
    .
  13. ^ Goulding, Marrack (July 1993). "The Evolution of United Nations Peacekeeping".
    JSTOR 2622309
    .
  14. ^ "RUSI Duke of Westminster's Medal for Military Literature". Royal United Services Institute. Retrieved 5 November 2007.

Further reading

Preceded by Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations
for Special Political Affairs
1985–1992 		Office split between
Under-Secretaries-General for
Peacekeeping Operations
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