Paul Julian Hare
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Paul Julian Hare (December 8, 1937 – present) is a retired United States diplomat. He held a variety of diplomatic posts in Kuwait, Vietnam Tunisia, Morocco, and Australia. He served as Ambassador to Zambia from 1985 to 1988 and as the Special Representative for the Angolan peace process from 1993 to 1998.
1. Biography
Early Years, 1937-1960
Paul J. Hare was born in Alexandria, Virginia on December 8, 1937. He was educated at Swarthmore College, where he received a B.A. in 1959. He subsequently completed a master’s degree at the University of Chicago in 1960.
Early Foreign Service, 1961-1971
Immediately after graduating from the University of Chicago, Hare joined the United States Foreign Service. He served in the Kuwait administrative office from 1961-1963 and then as a consular officer in Tunisia from 1963 to 1964.
From 1964 to 1968, Hare served in Vietnam on assignment for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in civil operations and revolutionary development support. From 1969 to 1971, Hare served as a Vietnam desk officer and then the Morocco desk officer.
Africa Bureau, 1971-1975
Hare became the African Bureau’s deputy director for policy planning from 1971 to 1972, followed by stints as the Bureau’s press officer and deputy director from 1972 to 1975.
Australia, 1975-1977
Hare then moved to Brisbane, Australia, where he served as the Consul of the American Consulate from 1975 to 1977.
Morocco Peace Corps Director, 1977-1979
Hare returned to North Africa and to Morocco, where he served as the Peace Corps director from 1977-1979.
Director of Southern African affairs, 1979-1981
From 1979 to 1981, Hare returned to Washington, DC as the director of Southern African Affairs.
Israel, 1981-1985
Hare returned to the Middle East, this time to Israel as a Political Affairs Counselor in Israel from 1981-1985.
Ambassador to Zambia, 1985-1988
On May 20, 1985, President Ronald Reagan nominated Hare, then a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor, as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Zambia. Following his confirmation, Hare succeeded Nicholas Platt as Ambassador to Zambia.
Bureau of Near East and South Asian Affairs
Following his posting in Zambia, Hare then served as the principal deputy assistant secretary of state in the Bureau of Near East and South Asian Affairs.
U.S. Special Representative for the Angolan peace process, 1993-1998
In 1993, President William Clinton named Ambassador Hare to be his Special Representative to Angola after the 1991 Bicesse peace accord fell apart. Hare spent the next four years working on the negotiation and implementation of the Lusaka Protocol.
Post-government
Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace, 1996-1997
Executive Director of the U.S.-Angola Chamber of Commerce
Hare currently serves on the Honorary Advisory Council
Personal Life
Hare is the son of Raymond A. Hare, who was a career United States diplomat, who was Director General of the United States Foreign Service from 1954 to 1956 and Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs from 1965 to 1966.
Hare was married to Robbie Anna, with whom he raised two children, Emmett and Jessica.
Since retiring from the Foreign Service, Hare lives in Washington, DC.
Works
Angola’s Last Best Chance for Peace: An Insider’s Account of the Peace Process, 1998
In this memoir, Hare recounts his behind-the-scenes account of the negotiation and implementation of the 1994 Lusaka Protocol. He describes how representatives of the United Nations and “the Troika” (the United States, Russia, and Portugal) launched negotiations with the rebel forces of UNITA, led by Jonas Savimbi, and the Dos Santos government to address their differences and plot a peaceful course for the country’s future.
Diplomatic Chronicles of the Middle East: Biography of Ambassador Raymond A. Hare, 1993
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