David Harland

This article is about the New Zealand diplomat. For the space historian, see David M. Harland.

David Harland
Born (1962-09-28) 28 September 1962 (age 62)
Wellington, New Zealand
NationalityNew Zealand
OccupationExecutive Director of the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue

David Harland (born 28 September 1962 in Wellington) is a New Zealand diplomat who has been the executive director of the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (HD), a Geneva-based foundation that specialises in the mediation of armed conflict, since 2011. Harland served as a witness for the prosecution in a number of cases at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.

Early life and education

Harland is the son of late New Zealand ambassador Bryce Harland.

Harland holds a PhD from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (1994), a Master's degree from Harvard University (East Asian studies, 1991), a graduate diploma (进修证) from Beijing University (1988) and a Bachelor of Arts from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand (1983).[1][2][3]

Career

Harland was appointed HD's Executive Director in 2011.[4] In 2018, he publicly announced that the Basque armed group ETA had dissolved itself as the final step in a long-running process to bring an end to violence in the Basque country.[5][6]

In 2022, Harland and HD were cited as an initiator of the UN-brokered deals to ease the global food crisis by facilitating agricultural exports from Russia and Ukraine.[7][8]

HD was awarded the Carnegie Wateler Peace Prize for 2022 "for its more than 20-year track record in ending armed conflict and for its patient, creative and discreet approach”.[9][10][11]

Harland also sits on the UN Secretary-General's High-Level Advisory Board on Mediation and on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Robert Koch Institute Centre for International Health Protection (ZIG).[12][13]

Prior to that, Harland was adjunct professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)[14] and Chair of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Conflict Prevention.

Before joining HD, Harland was director of the Europe and Latin America Division of the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations (2006–2011), where he managed the end of the UN transitional administration in Kosovo.[15]

He served in UN peacekeeping missions in Haiti (2010),[16] in Kosovo (2008),[17] in Timor Leste (1999–2000), where he set up and oversaw what would be the first government departments,[18] and in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1993–1998), where he co-led (with the Office of the High Representative) the post-war effort to increase freedom of movement through the introduction of a new national license plate, which he designed.[19]

During 1999, he was released from his regular duties, together with Salman Ahmed, to research and draft the UN report on the Srebrenica massacre[20] – "The Fall of Srebrenica".[21] He was a teaching fellow at Harvard University in 1989–1991.[22]

Harland served as a witness for the prosecution at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in the cases of The Prosecutor versus Ratko Mladic[23] (2012), The Prosecutor versus Radovan Karadžic[24][25] (2010), The Prosecutor versus Dragomir Miloševic[26] (2007) and the Prosecutor versus Slobodan Miloševic[27] (2004).

He was a script advisor for the Oscar-nominated film Quo Vadis, Aida? (2019–2020)[28]

Publications

References

  1. ^ "David Harland". World Economic Forum. Retrieved 19 September 2017.
  2. ^ "Making history". Victoria University of Wellington. 4 June 2020. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  3. ^ "人道主义对话中心"主任David Harland访谈：我在厦大度过一段鼓舞人心的时光". 新西兰研究中心. Retrieved 6 May 2021.
  4. ^ HD Centre announces new Executive Director (PDF), Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, 14 February 2011, archived from the original (PDF) on 16 September 2012, retrieved 25 January 2013
  5. ^ "HD announces ETA's official final declaration that it has disbanded forever". HD. Retrieved 18 October 2022.
  6. ^ Aizpeolea, Luis R. (20 October 2021). "The end of Basque terror group ETA: 'It was unilateral, clean and without trade-offs'". EL PAÍS English Edition. Retrieved 18 October 2022.
  7. ^ "Inside the UN's high-stakes deal to open Ukraine's grain corridor". Devex.
  8. ^ "Who are the Winners in the Black Sea Grain Deal?". www.crisisgroup.org. 3 August 2022. Retrieved 18 October 2022.
  9. ^ "David Harland speech: HD receives Carnegie Wateler Peace Prize – Full text and video". HD. Retrieved 7 November 2022.
  10. ^ "HD receives Carnegie Wateler Peace Prize at ceremony marking track record of conflict mediation". HD. Retrieved 7 November 2022.
  11. ^ "Peace Prize Awarded | Peace Palace". 3 November 2022. Retrieved 7 November 2022.
  12. ^ "Secretary-General's High-Level Advisory Board on Mediation Comprises 18 Eminent Current or Former Global Leaders, Officials, Experts". United Nations Economic and Social Council. 15 September 2017. Retrieved 19 September 2017.
  13. ^ Scientific Advisory Board of the Centre for International Health Protection (ZIG) Robert Koch Institute (RKI).
  14. ^ Our faculty, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, archived from the original on 28 April 2012, retrieved 25 January 2013
  15. ^ UN official hails 'outstanding' post-quake performance of Haitian police, UN News Centre, 28 January 2010, retrieved 25 January 2013
  16. ^ UN official hails 'outstanding' post-quake performance of Haitian police
  17. ^ Harland, David (October–November 2010), "Kosovo and the UN", Survival: Global Politics and Strategy, 52 (5): 75–98, doi:10.1080/00396338.2010.522097, retrieved 25 January 2013
  18. ^ Harland, David (2005), "UN Peacekeeping Operations in Post-Conflict Timor-Leste: Accomplishments and Lessons Learned", United Nations Peacekeeping Best Practices (4/2005), archived from the original on 16 April 2013, retrieved 25 January 2013
  19. ^ Durch, William J. (2006). Twenty-First-Century Peace Operations. Henry L. Stimson Center and United States Institute of Peace. ISBN 9781929223916.
  20. ^ Porter, Henry (17 November 1999), "Days of Shame", The Guardian, retrieved 25 January 2013
  21. ^ Report of the Secretary-General pursuant to General Assembly resolution 53/35 – The fall of Srebrenica (Report). United Nations. 15 November 1999. A/54/549. Retrieved 15 March 2017.
  22. ^ "Who we are". Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue. HD. Retrieved 19 September 2017.
  23. ^ The Prosecutor versus Ratko Mladic (ICTY 2012), Text.
  24. ^ "Ex-UN official: Mladic threatened civilians". Fox News. Associated Press. 10 July 2012. Retrieved 25 January 2013.
  25. ^ Greaves, Craig (4 February 2020). "The Kiwis taking on war criminals, killer robots, overfishing and nuclear bombs". New Zealand Listener. Archived from the original on 13 February 2020. Retrieved 13 February 2020.
  26. ^ The Prosecutor versus Dragomir Miloševic (ICTY 2007), Text.
  27. ^ The Prosecutor versus Dragomir Miloševic (ICTY 2004), Text.
  28. ^ ‘Not just a film’: Bosnia brings Srebrenica to the Oscars Al Jazeera