Carne Ross (born 1966) is the founder and executive director of Independent Diplomat, a diplomatic advisory group.

Career

After graduating from Exeter University, Ross joined the British Foreign Office and worked at the UK embassy in Bonn, Germany before moving to the UK mission to the UN. He resigned from the Foreign Office after 15 years of service, citing his secret evidence to the

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as the reason. In 2007, he is a supporter of a

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. In 2004, he founded the non-governmental organisation Independent Diplomat.

Publications and documentary

Ross published a book called ''Independent Diplomat: Dispatches from an Unaccountable Elite'' in 2007 and a book called ''The Leaderless Revolution'' in 2011. He wrote a play called ''The Fox''. In the "Acknowledgements" section of his 2013 novel, ''

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'', John le Carré thanks Ross for "his example demonstrat ngthe perils of speaking a delicate truth to power." In 2017, BBC4 broadcast a documentary about Ross's life and ideas called ''The Accidental Anarchist''. The documentary charts Ross's change from a civil servant in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to an anarchist. The linguist, cognitive scientist and political activist Noam Chomsky appears in the documentary. Ross explores the philosophy of

democratic confederalism Democratic confederalism ( ku, Konfederalîzma demokratîk), also known as Kurdish communalism or Apoism, is a political concept theorized by Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan about a system of democratic self-organization ...

developed by

Abdullah Öcalan Abdullah Öcalan ( ; ; born 4 April 1949), also known as Apo (short for Abdullah in Turkish and Kurdish for "uncle"), is a political prisoner and founding member of the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). Öcalan was based in Syria from ...

and its influence on Kurdish groups in the Syrian Civil War such as the

YPG The People's Defense Units (YPG), (YPG) ; ar, وحدات حماية الشعب, Waḥdāt Ḥimāyat aš-Šaʽb) also called People's Protection Units, is a mainly-Kurds in Syria, Kurdish militia in Syria and the primary component of the ...

and YPJ. Ross sees these groups as anarchist.

Personal life

Ross is the grandson of linguist and academic

Alan S. C. Ross Alan Strode Campbell Ross (1 February 1907 – 23 September 1980) was a British academic specialising in linguistics. He is best remembered as the ultimate source and inspiration for author Nancy Mitford's "U and non-U" forms of behaviour and lan ...

Selected works

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