Kurdistan: A Dream Suspended

Reconciliation and Peacebuilding programme, University of Winchester

14th January 2016

In January 2016, I gave a lecture for the Centre of Religion, Reconciliation and Peace at the University of Winchester. as part of their series ‘Talking Peace: A Forum for Exploring Conflict’.

“There is a saying that Kurds have “no friends but the mountains”, as successive conquerors have driven them deep into the hills to preserve their culture and lives. The current crisis in the region opens another chapter in its troubled history, with 1.8 million refugees and internally displaced people now seeking a safe haven from the nearby conflict. Richard Wilding’s images form an important and vivid record of Kurdistan’s past and present.”

Simon Keyes, Professor of Reconciliation and Peacebuilding at the University of Winchester