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Goulding, Marrack Irvine was born on September 2, 1936 in Plymouth, Devon, England. Son of Ernest Irvine and Gladys Ethel (Sennett) Goulding.
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Marrack Goulding joined the United Nations as the Under-Secretary-General in charge of peacekeeping operations in 1986, at a time of intense optimism. With the thawing of the Cold War it seemed that at last the UN could concentrate on the real issues affecting the world: preventing and resolving conflict and fighting poverty, disease, injustice and crime. At first there were spectacular successes - the withdrawl of Soviet troops from Afghanistan, the Iran-Iraq ceasefire, the liberation of Kuwait, and peace settlements in Namibia, Angola, El Salvador, Cambodia and Mozambique. The UN, it seemed, could do no wrong. But by 1993 the bubble had burst, and the UN's credibility had been seriously undermined by its failure to halt the bloodshed in Angola, Bosnia and Somalia. Meanwhile, spending on peacekeeping had risen more than tenfold, from 260 million to 2.7 billion dollars. In 1993 an exhausted Goulding was transferred by Secretary Boutros-Gali to head the UN's political department.In this account of seven years of peacekeeping, Marrack Goulding gives the reader an insider's view of what went wrong and also of what the UN achieved during this critical period, of what it was like to be on the front line of US peacekeeping activities, and also to work behind the scenes with two very different Secretaries-General, Javier Perez de Cuellar and Boutros Boutros-Gali. In this thought-provoking account of an organization in crisis, the author pulls no punches, but instead readily admits that many of the mistakes were my mistakes - I was as intoxicated as everyone else.
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Marrack Irvine Goulding, British diplomat. Decorated knight Commander Order St. Michael and St. George (England); knight Commander Order of King of Morocco. Member International Peace Academy, New York City, 1987-2000; board directors Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, 1997—2007. Member Oxford and Cambridge Club (London).
Education
Bachelor with honors, Oxford University, England, 1959. Doctor of Science (honorary), Southampton University, England, 1997. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Plymouth University, 2003.
Career
Her Majesty Diplomatic Service
Goulding entered Her Majesty Diplomatic Service in 1959 and was, in 1961, posted to the British Embassy in Kuwait. He returned to the United Kingdom in 1964, where he worked in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. In 1968, he was once more posted overseas, as the Head of Chancery of the British Embassy in Tripoli, Libya, and later of the Embassy in Cairo, Egypt.
Goulding spent the following few years in the United Kingdom, working first in the Foreign Office as Private Secretary to three Ministers of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs – including Roy Hattersley and Julian Amery, Baron Amery of Lustleigh – and then in the Cabinet Office.
He was posted to the British Embassy in Lisbon, Portugal, in 1977, and to the 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.
United Nations
On 1 January 1986, Goulding became Under-Secretary-General (Undergraduate Student Government) of the United Nations for Special Political Affairs, serving under Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar. From then until March 1993, he headed peacekeeping operations for the United Nations, and presided over the creation of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations in 1992, during the term of Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali.
According to Simon Chesterman of the New York University School of Law, the period of Goulding"s service as head of United Nations peacekeeping – which saw the initiation of sixteen new missions – "may come to be regarded as its heyday".
In March 1993, Goulding became Undergraduate Student Government for Political Affairs. During his tenure at the United Nations, which ended in July 1997 during the first term of Secretary-General Kofi Annan, he was "effectively the second most powerful man in the United Nations". Street Antony"s College, Oxford
Goulding became Warden of Street 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.
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.
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Peacemonger
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Peacemonger
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Member International Peace Academy, New York City, 1987-2000. Board directors Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, 1997—2007. Member Oxford and Cambridge Club (London).
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Married Susan Rhoda D'Albiac, February 11, 1961 (divorced 1996). Children: Rachel Mary, James Marrack, Henry John. Married Catherine Pawlow, December 14, 1996 (divorced 2004).
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