We often get famous professors on stage for our meetings but they are not often joined by the scion of South Africa's richest family, a rock star and the head of the British army. Last Friday night at SOAS was different. And the man who made the difference and created that strange and wonderful evening last week was the irrepressible Greg Mills of the Brenthurst Foundation, who has made a life out of studying wars and politics in Africa and the rest of the world. There isn't a conflict zone of the last two decades he hasn't visited and written about. I have known Greg for many years, first as the Director of the South African Institute of International Affairs and then at Brenthurst. He has written or co-authored four other books on current conflicts and now 'Why States Recover - Changing Walking Societies into Winning Nations - From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe'. Why Walking Societies? War does indeed create refugees and in poor countries they seek refuge by abandoning their homes and walking towards what they hope will be safety. The 'A to Z' in the title shows just how many countries and conflicts there have been in the last [...]
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