By Keith Locke
The following article was published in the Daily Blog on 4 September 2021
Our government has understandably been preoccupied with helping refugees leave Afghanistan. But now the focus should shift to emergency aid for Afghanistan itself.UN Secretary-General...
This article was first published in the Spinoff on 18 August 2021.
I argued 20 years ago that sending troops would only help the Taliban. And so it has proved, writes former Green MP Keith Locke.
After the fall of Kabul,...
How can New Zealand claim to have an independent foreign policy when it won’t even criticise America’s assassination of Qassem Soleimani, a top Iranian leader?
The furthest foreign minister Winston Peters went was to express “strong concern” at the “heightening...
(A talk by Keith Locke to a seminar on "Just War?", hosted by the NZ Christian Network, NZ Peace and Conflict Studies Centre Trust, Pax Christi and the Anglican Pacifist Fellowship,in Auckland, 19 November 2016.)
The message of this talk...
Countering the rise of Isis in Syria and Iraq requires solutions that are mainly political, not military.
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New Zealanders are right to be concerned about the rise of the Islamic State (Isis), but our best contribution would be to provide...
WWI was a disastrous struggle for imperial power rather than a fight for freedom — and we must share blame
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Over the next four years we will learn much about World War I...