From June of to August of , Bunche worked on the most important assignment of his career — the confrontation between Arabs and Jews in Palestine. In early when this plan was dropped and fighting between Arabs and Israelis became especially severe, the UN appointed Count Folke Bernadotte as mediator and Ralph Bunche as his chief aide.
After eleven months of virtually ceaseless negotiating, Bunche obtained signatures on armistice agreements between Israel and the Arab States. He was besieged with requests to lecture, was awarded the Spingarn Prize by the NAACP in , was given over thirty honorary degrees in the next three years, and the Nobel Peace Prize for Bunche still works for the UN. From to , he served as undersecretary for Special Political Affairs and since has been undersecretary-general.
During these years he has taken on many special assignments. He has shouldered analogous duties in Cyprus, Kashmir, and Yemen. Ralph Bunche has supplied a part of that courage. Bennett, Lerone, Jr. Chicago, Johnson Publishing Co. Bunche, Ralph J. Original typescript deposited in New York Public Library; microfilm copies made in available in the libraries of the Universities of Illinois, Iowa, and California at Berkeley.
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He was department chairman from to In he married Ruth Harris, one of his students. The couple had three children. In he was appointed to the faculty of Harvard University, but after two leaves of absence he resigned in , without having taught there. Ralph Bunche. Reproduced by permission of Archive Photos, Inc. Bunche was an expert on colonialism. The term colonialism refers to a nation's possession or control over a colony.
In he moved to the U. State Department. From to Bunche was active as an expert on trusteeship in the planning and establishment of the United Nations UN. Trusteeship is the overseeing of a colony or territory by a country or countries given the authority to do so by the UN. Bunche served as director of the Trusteeship Division. At the UN Bunche was given some difficult assignments.
The Arabs refused to accept the UN plan. This led to the first Arab-Israeli War. Toward the end of the s he had become U. Bunche cited this effort as "the single most satisfying work" he'd ever done, as military forces were being used to maintain peace and not aid war.
Bunche continued his service into the s, orchestrating the cessation of conflict in the Congo Zaire , Cyprus and Bahrain. He became the under-secretary-general of the U. He was the first African American and person of color to receive the award. Initially tasked in to assist mediator Count Folke Bernadotte of Sweden, Bunche took over talks on the island of Rhodes after Bernadotte was killed in a September terrorist attack.
The long negotiation process was defined by the diplomat's willingness to meet with both sides and be meticulous, calm and patient about getting parties to sit with each other and find ways to compromise. He was later assigned a senior post in the U. State Department, before leaving to join the U. In , U. President Harry Truman offered Bunche the position of assistant secretary of state, but the U.
Bunche also reportedly turned down an offer from President John Kennedy to become secretary of state. Prominently involved in social activism by the s, Bunche was among the group of African-American intellectuals coined the "Young Turks" by W.
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