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Robert E. Gribbin III (born February 5, 1946 Durham, North Carolina) is a retired American ambassador to Rwanda (1996 – 1999) and the Central African Republic (1993 – 1995) and author of In the Aftermath of Genocide: The U.S. role in Rwanda.
Biography
Gribbin's father is an Episcopal clergyman who worked with many campus ministries. He spent much of his childhood in Tuscaloosa, Alabama at the University of Alabama. He graduated from the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee in 1968. After college, he served as a Peace Corps volunteer working with a team of civil engineers on implementing a water distribution system. When he returned to the United States, he became a project manager with Head Start (program) in Atlanta. He left after nine months to attend graduate school at the SAIS.
Career
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His first posting in the Foreign Service was in the Central African Republic "notorious at the time its rather despotic ruler, Jean-Bédel Bokassa, who later became emperor. But he was not the emperor in 1974; he was cher Papa, maréchal and président à vie. In any case, he ran the country as his own personal fiefdom."
References
- "Robert E. Gribbin, 3rd". Office of the Historian. Retrieved 11 February 2020.
- ^ "Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project AMBASSADOR ROBERT E. GRIBBIN" (PDF). Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training. 23 June 2000. Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 July 2024. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
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