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Accidental Anarchist: life without government

Hosted by LSE Human Rights

NAB.1.04, New Academic Building ,

Speaker

Carne Ross

Chair

Dr Ayça Çubukçu

A film screening of the BBC4 documentary The Accidental Anarchist and a Q&A with Carne Ross about the Syrian civil war and the revolution in Rojava. 

This film traces Carne's worldwide quest to find a better way of doing things - from a farming collective in Spain, to Occupy Wall Street to Rojava in war-torn Syria - as he makes the epic journey from Government insider to anarchist.

This event is convened by the Internationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Politics of Solidarity research group at LSE Human Rights.

Carne Ross (@carneross) is a former British diplomat, author and journalist. Having resigned from the British foreign service after giving secret testimony to an official inquiry into the Iraq war, he then set up the world's first independent diplomatic advisory group, Independent Diplomat, which advises marginalised countries and groups around the world.  

Ayça Çubukçu (@ayca_cu) is Assistant Professor in Human Rights , LSE Human Rights in the Department of Sociology Before LSE, Dr Çubukçu taught for the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University and the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies at Harvard University. 

LSE Human Rights (@LSEHumanRights) is a trans-disciplinary centre of excellence for international academic research, teaching and critical scholarship on human rights.

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