Peace lecture

Applied Global Ethics in association with Leeds City Council and Leeds Peacelink group, are hosting this year's Olof Palme Memorial Peace Lecture.

Former war correspondent and Associate Editor of the Guardian Victoria Brittain, will be delivering her lecture this week, Lies, Truth and Whistleblowers in war reporting, drawing from her experience as a  journalist living and working in Saigon, Washington, Algiers, Nairobi, Luanda, Washington and London.

Ms Brittain worked for many years at The Guardian, and has also worked for The Times, ITN, Le Monde Diplomatique, Afrique/Asie, and contributed to many publications in the UK, France and US. Since leaving the Guardian, where she was Associate Foreign Editor, she has been a consultant to the UN on issues of the impact of war on women, and been at the London School of Economics as a Research Associate.

This year's Leeds Peace Lecture 2010 marks the 24th anniversary of the assassination of Swedish Premier Olof Palme who worked for peace and human rights all his political life until he was assassinated in Stockholm in 1986.

Ms Brittain follows a long line of esteemed speakers for this lecture, including Olof Palme's wife Lisbeth Palme, the Mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Shakespearean actor Patrick Stewart, Nobel Peace Laureate John Hume, Senator George Mitchell and CND Vice-President Bruce Kent.

The lecture is free and takes place at  Leeds Civic Hall, 7pm on Thursday 17 June 2010.