Farrand, Robert W.
ROBERT W. “BILL” FARRAND, a 34-year career Foreign Service officer, was Supervisor of Brčko and Deputy High Representative for the northern sector of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1997 to 2000. Before serving as ambassador to Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu, 1990–93, his posts included Malaysia, the Soviet Union, and Czechoslovakia and in the State Department, inter alia, as principal deputy assistant secretary, Bureau of Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs (1987–90). In the U.S. Navy (1957–64), after serving on sea duty, he taught at Annapolis. A 1981 National War College graduate, he holds a B.S. (Mount St. Mary’s College) and an M.A. (Georgetown University) and is now a distinguished senior fellow and affiliate professor at the George Mason University School of Public Policy’s Peace Operations Policy Program, co-directed by Professor Allison Frendak-Blume, who collaborated on the book.
In the tense aftermath of the 1992–95 Bosnian War, U.S. diplomat Bill Farrand was assigned the daunting task of implementing the Dayton Peace Accords in the ethnically divided Balkan city of Brčko in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Serb, Muslim, and Croat political leaders alike had blocked agreement over Brčko’s political status...