John Noel Reedman (24 December 1905 – 20 May 1994) was an English-South African diplomat who was the Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations in Palestine.
[6] He was described as an "outstanding teacher and scholar" who had "carried much of the lecturing burden of the department"[6] He gave up his professorial functions in Johannesburg in January 1947 in order to join the staff of the United Nations.
[3] UNSCOP's members disagreed significantly on the issue of the proposed partition of Palestine, resulting in it submitting a majority and a minority report.
[8] Following the adoption of General Assembly Resolution 181, Reedman was recruited by Ralph Bunche to advise the ill-fated Palestine Commission, which was to implement the partition plan.
[9] He was appointed to broker a peace settlement and find a solution to the Palestine question after the Commission proved unable to quell the civil war that had broken out following the adoption of the partition plan on 29 November 1947.
[10][11] After Bernadotte's assassination in 1948, the UN General Assembly decided to set up the United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine (UNCCP) with the aim of mediating the Arab-Israeli conflict.