Desmond Travers
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Member of United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict
Desmond Travers | |
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| Allegiance | Irish Army |
| Service years | 1961-2001 |
| Rank | Colonel |
| Other work | Director of Institute for International Criminal Investigations Member of United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict |
Desmond Travers (born 1941) is a retired Irish Army colonel. During his years with the army he served with various United Nations and European Union peacekeeping forces. Since his retirement from the army in 2001, he has taught military affairs at the Institute for International Criminal Investigations in The Hague. He also served on the institutes board of directors. In 2009 together with Richard Goldstone, Christine Chinkin, and Hina Jilani, he was appointed to the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict. The report that the mission subsequently published is commonly referred to as the Goldstone Report and Travers is credited as one of the four co-authors.[1]
During his 42-year career as a soldier and officer with the Irish Army Infantry Corps, Travers served with the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (1964, 1969–70) and the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (1980–82, 1984–85 and 1987–88). While serving with UNIFIL, Travers and his family lived for two years in northern Israel. He subsequently served in Croatia (EU Monitor in 1993) and in Bosnia and Herzegovina (2000–01). His last army appointment was as Colonel, Commandant of the Military College, based at the Curragh Camp. He retired from the army in 2001. [2][3][4][5]