Background
Perkins, Edward Joseph was born on June 8, 1928 in Sterlington, Louisiana, United States.
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Political stability is a crucial precondition for peace in the Middle East. In The Middle East Peace Process: Vision versus Reality, Joseph Ginat, Edward J. Perkins, and Edwin G. Corr have assembled a comprehensive overview of the complex peace negotiations taking place among Middle Eastern nations to resolve the IsraeliPalestinian conflict and forge normal relations between Arab nations and Israel. More than thirty academics and practitioners probe, discuss, and engage themselves with issues concerning the peace process. The volume focuses first on the Oslo Agreement and the Palestinian Track; then addresses Israeli relations with Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq; and concludes with an examination of relations between Israelis and Palestinians in Jerusalem. The Middle East Peace Process is the result of the Center for Peace Studies conference The Peace Process in the Middle East,” cosponsored by the International Program Center at the University of Oklahoma and the University of Haifa in Israel. The volume features a foreword by HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan and a preface by David L. Boren, President of the University of Oklahoma.
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Apartheid South Africa was on fire around me.” So begins the memoir of Career Foreign Service Officer Edward J. Perkins, the first black United States ambassador to South Africa. In 1986, President Ronald Reagan gave him the unparalleled assignment: dismantle apartheid without violence. As he fulfilled that assignment, Perkins was scourged by the American press, despised by the Afrikaner government, hissed at by white South African citizens, and initially boycotted by black South African revolutionaries, including Archbishop Desmond Tutu. His advice to President-elect George H. W. Bush helped modify American policy and hasten the release of Nelson Mandela and others from prison. Perkins’s up-by-your-bootstraps life took him from a cotton farm in segregated Louisiana to the white elite Foreign Service, where he became the first black officer to ascend to the top position of director general. This is the story of how one man turned the page of history.
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Perkins, Edward Joseph was born on June 8, 1928 in Sterlington, Louisiana, United States.
Student, University California. Student, Lewis and Clark College. Bachelor, University Maryland, 1967.
Master of Public Administration, University Southern California, 1972. Doctor of Public Administration, University Southern California, 1978. Studied French, Foreign Service Institute, 1983.
Doctor of Laws (honorary), University Maryland, 1990. Doctor of Laws (honorary), St. John's University, 1990. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Lewis and Clark College, 1988.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Winston-Salem State University, 1990. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Bowie State College, 1993. HHD (honorary), St. Augustine College, 1991.
HHD (honorary), Beloit College, 1990. HHD (honorary), University Southern California, 1995.
Chief personnel Army and Air Force Exchange Service, Taipei, Taiwan, 1958-1962, deputy chief Okinawa, Japan, 1962-1964. Chief personnel & administration Army and Air Force Exchange Service, Japan, 1964-1966. Assistant general services officer Far East bureau United States Agency International Development (United States Agency for International Development), 1967-1969, management analyst, 1969-1970.
Assistant director for management United States Operations Mission to Thailand, 1970-1972. Staff assistant Office of Director General Foreign Service, 1972, personnel officer, 1972-1974. Administrative officer Bureau Near Eastern & South Asian Affairs United States Department State, 1974-1975, management analysis officer Office Management Operations, 1975-1978, counselor for political affairs Accra, Ghana, 1978-1981, deputy chief of mission Monrovia, Liberia, 1981-1983, director Office of West African Affairs, Bureau African Affair, 1983-1985, United States ambassador to Liberia, 1985-1986, United States ambassador to South Africa, 1986-1989, director general, director personnel Foreign Service Washington, 1989-1992, United States ambassador to United Nations New York City, 1992-1993, United States ambassador to Australia Canberra, 1993-1996.
William J. Crowe professor and executive director International Programs Center, University Oklahoma, Norman since 1996. Member advisory board Institute International Public Policy, since 1997. Member advisory council University Office of International Programs, Pennsylvania State University, 1997.
Member White House Advisory Committee on Trade Policy and Negotiations, since 2003.
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Contributor articles to professional publications. Editor (with David Boren) Preparing American's Foreign Policy for the 21st Century, 1999, with (Joseph Ginat) Palestinian Refugees: Traditional Positions and New Solutions, 2001, (with David Boren) Democracy, Morality, and the Search for Peace in America's Foreign Policy, 2002, (with Joseph Ginat and Edwin G. Corr) Middle East Peace Process: Vision Versus Reality, 2002, (with Connie Cronley) Mr. Ambassador: Warrior For Peace, 2008.
Trustee Lewis and Clark College, since 1994, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, since 1999. Board governors Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, 1996-2003. Member steering committee Center for Australian and New Zealand Studies, Georgetown University, since 1996.
Board Cranlana Programme. Board visitors National Defense University, since 2002. Fellow National Academy Public Administration.
Member Veterans of Foreign Wars, American Society for Public Administration, Navy League, American Political Science Association, Foreign Policy Association (ambassadorial fellow), International Studies Association, Council on Foreign Relations, American Academy Diplomacy, American Consortium International Public Administration, American Foreign Service Association, American Legion, Center Study of Presidency, Chester A. Arthur Society, Public Service Communications, World Affairs Councils Oklahoma and Washington, American Academy Diplomacy, Pacific Council on International Policy, Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training (board directors since 1998), Kappa Alpha Psi (Laurel Wreath award,1993, C. Rodger Wilson Leadership Conference award, 1990, Distinguished Service award 1989, Outstanding Achievement award for Foreign Service 1986), Phi Kappa Phi.
Married Lucy Liu.