N-free world needs backing

Press, 17 June 1986, Page 19

N-free world needs backing

A world without nuclear war can be realised only when enough people demand peace and a new surge of political thinking develops, according to a visiting American authority on international law, Professor Richard Falk, of Princeton University. He is the lecturer for 1986 for the New Zealand Foundation for Peace Studies. His trip has been co-sponsored by the Auckland branch of Lawyers for Peace. Professor Falk supports a social movement — that is at least as committed as were earlier movements against slavery, royalism and colonialism — to direct the world away from nuclear war. “It will be no sentimental journey guided by wishful thinking, but the commitment of citizens to challenge the logic of war, and to reinvigorate and even reinvent democracy,’’ he said. I

Four talks by Professor Falk are to be held at Canterbury University today and tomorrow. The first talk today is at the International Law School, room AB, at 12 noon, and the second Sociology Department at 3 p.m. in room All. The talks tomorrow will be at 12 noon in the Shelley Common Room, and at 8 p.m. in the English and Education Department’s common room.