Continuing Lecturer Peter Bartu

Peter Bartu teaches courses at the University of California, Berkeley on the contemporary Middle East, the Arab Spring and the Gulf States. In 2011 he was a member of the UN’s stand-by mediation team and worked in Benghazi and Tripoli during the Libyan revolution. He had other assignments in Djibouti, Iraq and Malawi. In 2008-2009 he led a United Nations team that produced a seminal report on the disputed internal boundaries between the Arabs and the Kurds in Iraq. He returned to Iraq to work on this issue in 2016, 2018 and 2019. From 2001-2003 he was a political advisor to the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, based in Jerusalem. He has worked as a foreign policy advisor in the Australian Prime Minister’s Department and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and had other appointments with the UN in East Timor in 1999 and in Cambodia from 1991-1993. He is a Senior Research Scholar at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at UC Berkeley. He is also a member of the Dolphin Club in San Francisco where he enjoys open water swimming.