AFGHANISTAN: THE HUMAN COST
Marianne Elliott & Nicky Hager
The so-called ‘war on terror’ in Afghanistan has become the longest and perhaps the most controversial conflict fought by the United States and its allies. As she relates vividly in Zen Under Fire, human rights lawyer Marianne Elliott has first-hand experience of this notorious war: in 2006 she was stationed with the United Nations in Herat. In Other People’s Wars, based on thousands of leaked New Zealand military and intelligence reports, and interviews with insiders, investigative journalist Nicky Hager considers New Zealand’s involvement in both Afghanistan and Iraq.
Marianne Elliott is a writer, human and environmental rights advocate and international yoga instructor. Trained as a lawyer, she led the Action Plan for Human Rights in New Zealand, helped the government to craft their own human rights strategy in Timor-Leste and spent two years working in human rights in the Gaza Strip before her time in Afghanistan.
Nicky Hager writes about politics, intelligence and military issues. His earlier books, Secret Power, Secrets and Lies, Seeds of Distrust and The Hollow Men, cover an exposé of the worldwide US intelligence system, anti-environmental public relations, political management and the National Party. He lectures on journalism and is the New Zealand representative in the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.
Chair: Poet, author and biographer Harry Ricketts co-edits the review journal New Zealand Books and teaches English literature and creative non-fiction at Victoria University.
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2 Sep 2012 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM
Cost:$16/14
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