Peter Adams (born 1944) is a retired diplomat of

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. In 1977, after researching and writing ''Fatal Necessity: British Intervention in New Zealand, 1830–1847'' while at Oxford University on a Rhodes scholarship, Adams worked in the

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. He was then employed in the

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, in

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, and in

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(

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). In 1985 he was deputy director of the South Pacific Bureau of Economic Cooperation (SPEC). From 1998 to 2001 he was

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. From 2001 until his retirement in 2009 he was executive director of the

. He lives in

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and writes short fiction and poetry.

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