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Carne Ross

This site hosts my writing and media appearances including news about the documentary movie, Accidental Anarchist. I am a former British diplomat who resigned over the Iraq war. I now run the world's first non-profit diplomatic advisory group, Independent Diplomat.

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Speaking

I like doing talks, especially to young people at universities or local groups.  Please get in touch with me on twitter: @carneross.

Coming up: screening and discussion of “Accidental Anarchist”, Snape Maltings, 14 June

Some past talks and video:

BBC Newsnight “Viewsnight”: “Anarchism is our only alternative” 

“Why I am an anarchist” TEDx Skoll

My TED talk: An Independent Diplomat 

“A Gentle Anarchism”, Business Innovation Factory, Providence RI, September 19th 2012

‘The Art of Performing Political Innovation’: discussion at Eyebeam, 6pm, October 19th 2013

Personal Democracy Forum, New York City, June 12th 2012

“The Leaderless Revolution” The Carnegie Council, New York City, June 13th, 2012 (talk begins at 06:40 minutes)

Beautiful Vistas: A Speculation on the Future for Triple Canopy, Museum of Modern Art, PS1, June 21st, 2013

 

Carne gave a longer lecture about The Leaderless Revolution at the London School of Economics in September 2011.  This is a full exposition and discussion of the ideas in the book.

You can download a video or audio podcast of the talk here.

 

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Accidental Anarchist film

https://vimeo.com/199834602?loop=0

The Leaderless Revolution

How ordinary people will take power and change politics in the 21st century Now published in the UK by Simon & Schuster in September 2011, and in the US by Blue Rider Press (Penguin) in January 2012. Click here for more
So bold, so full of incontestable truths and overwhelming convictions, that it should be read by every diplomat, politician and thinking citizen with the courage to pick it up.
John le Carré

Independent Diplomat book

My book, Independent Diplomat: Dispatches from an Unaccountable Elite, offers a critique of contemporary diplomacy drawn from my own experience as a diplomat. In analysing the many deficits of the current system – and how that system produces bad decisions – it also offers a vision of what can be put right. Buy it now

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