Carne Ross: a voice for the powerless

Rosemary Hartill profiles Carne Ross in the first of a new series

Carne Ross. | Photo: Independent Diplomat.

The ‘Visionaries for a just and peaceful world’ project, initiated and funded by the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, has for the past five years allowed a group of ‘visionaries’ to realise their ambitions.   Carne Ross founded an organisation to provide high level diplomatic advice, expertise and assistance to new or transitional states, poor countries and oppressed groups: his vision was to help them express their needs, in a world of international diplomacy dominated by the powerful, clearly and peacefully and to reduce conflict.

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