MAW invites you to their 2025 Annual Remembrance Lecture on Sunday, 9th November at 3 pm, the subject: “Ending Wars”.
The lecture will take place in Mander Hall, Hamilton House, London WC1H 9BD, the HQ of the National Education Union (NEU).
The lecturer is Lord John Alderdice, who worked as a consultant psychiatrist in psychoanalytic psychotherapy and took an active interest in the psychology of violent political conflict, before becoming involved in almost every aspect of the Irish Peace Process, including the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. He was the first Speaker of the new Northern Ireland Assembly and later one of the four members of the international Independent Monitoring Commission. He now sits in the House of Lords and is currently a member of the Select Committee on International Relations and Defence.
John Alderdice is also Director of the Centre for the Resolution of Intractable Conflict, based in Oxford, and has co-edited a recently published book, “Ending Wars”, which arose out of a 2024 conference there.
With his unique combination of hands-on experience of ending wars and his academic background in studying them, he promises to be an incredibly relevant speaker at this pivotal moment in international relations.