Phillip Corwin

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Born1937
Died2009 (Age 72)
NationalityUS
UN official including during the war in Bosnia in 1995.

Phillip Corwin held a number of posts during his twenty-seven years with the United Nations, including that of a speechwriter for former Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar. After participating in peacekeeping missions in Haiti, Western Sahara, and Afghanistan, he became the UN’s chief political officer in Sarajevo, Bosnia.[1][2]

Bosnia

In his book Dubious Mandate : A Memoir of the UN in Bosnia, Summer 1995 Corwin is critical both of the Bosnian government’s tactics for drawing NATO into the conflict and of NATO’s eagerness to make peace by waging war. He challenges the popular depiction of the Bosnian government as that of noble victim, arguing that the leaders of all three sides in the conflict were “gangsters wearing coats and ties.” Highly caustic about Western reportage, he examines the policies of various Western political and military leaders and gives a detailed account of a pivotal phase of the war in Bosnia, a period that culminated with NATO’s massive bombing of Bosnian Serb targets and ultimately led to the Dayton Peace Agreement.[3]


 

A Document by Phillip Corwin

TitleDocument typePublication dateSubject(s)Description
File:Srebrenica massacre.pdfbook2011Srebrenica MassacreForensic examination of the event that has come to be known as "The Srebrenica Massacre" in the western mainstrean narrative of the break-up of the former Yugoslavia
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