Facts: - president: bill clinton - party: democrat - predecessor: peter shumlin - country: croatia - birth date: 31 december 1950 - birthname: peter woodard galbraith - relations: john mother -rrb- james k. galbraith -lrb- brother -rrb- kenneth galbraith -lrb- father -rrb- catherine galbraith -lrb- - profession: diplomat , public servant , professor , writer - order: 1st - state senate: vermont - spouse: anne o'leary -lrb- divorced -rrb- tone bringa - district: windham county - term end: january 3 , 1998 january 7 , 2015 - website: -lsb- for arms control and non-proliferation http://armscontrolcenter.org/about/staff/pgalbraith/ ambassador peter w. galbraith -rsb- , center - birth place: boston , massachusetts - ambassador from: united states - successor: william dale montgomery becca balint - nationality: american - alma mater: harvard -rrb- georgetown university -lrb- j.d. -rrb- university -lrb- a.b. -rrb- oxford university -lrb- m.a. - residence: townshend , vermont - children: three - term start: june 28 , 1993 january 5 , 2011 - image: file : peter galbraith wikipedia.jpg Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of peter w. galbraith .
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peter woodard galbraith -lrb- b. december 31 , 1950 -rrb- is an author , academic , commentator , politician , policy advisor , and former united states diplomat .in the late 1980s and early 1990s , he helped uncover saddam hussein 's gassing of the kurds .from 1993 to 1998 , he served as the first u.s. ambassador to croatia , where he was co-mediator and principal architect of the 1995 erdut agreement that ended the war in that country .beginning in 2003 , galbraith acted as an advisor to the kurdistan regional government in northern iraq .as an author and commentator , he argued that iraq has broken up and that the us occupation authorities should not try to build a strong central government over kurdish objections .in 2009 , galbraith was appointed united nations ' deputy special representative for afghanistan where he contributed to exposing the massive fraud that took place in the 2009 afghanistan presidential elections .