Charles Franklin Dunbar (diplomat)
Charles Franklin Dunbar was an American Career Foreign Service Officer who served in several capacities including Chargé d’Affaires ad interim , Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Qatar, and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Yemen.Education
From 1962–81, he was assigned to the American Embassies in Tehran, Kabul, Rabat, Algiers and Nouakchott, Mauritania as well as the American Consulate in Isfahan, Iran. Dunbar held several other posts until 1998 when he served as the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Western Sahara.
Dunbar went on to serve as President of the nonprofit Cleveland Council on World Affairs from 1993–2000. He was an adjunct professor of political science at Case Western Reserve University, Warburg Professor in International Relations at Simmons College and professor.Publications
- The Unification of Yemen: Process, Politics, and Prospects Middle East Journal Vol. 46, No. 3, pp. 456-476
