Dr. John Hinchcliff on Politics and our Precarious Future

Published: Oct. 8, 2014, 10 p.m.

b"Dr. John Hinchcliff was vice chancellor for 20 years of the institution variously called Auckland Technical Institute, Auckland Institute of Technology and Auckland University of Technology. He was responsible for the transformation of AIT to university status. His fields of enquiry are ethics, future studies, peace studies, and the philosophy of sport and education. He has a long history of working on peace, nationally and internationally. In 1968 he coordinated the Inaugural Conference for Peace Action with 40 international participants including Nobel Prize winners, US and Australian senators and a pioneering nuclear physicist. In 1995 as a protest against nuclear testing he led a team of prominent New Zealanders to France. He was a member of the founding committee of The Peace Foundation in Auckland and has been a speaker at various international conferences on nuclear disarmament. Listen to this highly accomplished man's concerns for the future, understanding of the interconnectedness of the problems, and why we need to change. This programme is sponsored by The Awareness Party www.theawarenessparty.com"