Former New Zealand Green MP. Campaigner for peace and human rights.
(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 is that war, as it becomes a more technological enterprise, is becoming even more barbaricContinue reading The Terrifying Consequences of High-Tech War
Countering the rise of Isis in Syria and Iraq requires solutions that are mainly political, not military. [On 21 October 2014 the NZ Herald carried my opinion piece advocating that New Zealand provide humanitarian aid to Iraq and Syria, and not contribute to the US-led military campaign.] http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11345416 New Zealanders are right to be concernedContinue reading Keith Locke: Take on extremists with words not war
WWI was a disastrous struggle for imperial power rather than a fight for freedom — and we must share blame [On 5 August 2014, on the 100th anniversary of New Zealand’s entry into World War I, I had this opinion piece carried in the New Zealand Herald.] Read this article on the NZ Herald websiteContinue reading Keith Locke: There’s nothing great about Great War