Middle East conflict – its complex historic and political context.| Catalyst Kōrero - 19th October

Name: Middle East conflict – its complex historic and political context.| Catalyst Kōrero - 19th October
Start: 2025-10-19T08:00:00+13:00
End: 2025-10-19T09:30:00+13:00
Location: The Rees Hotel, Queenstown, NZ

Schedule

Sun Oct 19 2025 at 08:00 am to 09:30 am

UTC+13:00

Location

The Rees Hotel, Queenstown, NZ | Queenstown, OT

Middle East conflict – its complex historic and political
context| Catalyst Kōrero - 19th October
The humanitarian catastrophe and conflict expansion of the war in Gaza that University of Otago Middle East expert Dr Leon Goldsmith warned us about in his August 2024 Catalyst Kōrero have come to pass.
He will describe the complex political and historic context that provides the spiderwebbed drivers of the conflicts now also engulfing Yemen, Lebanon, Iran , Syria and the occupied West Bank.
Is there hope for long-term peace and resolution? If so – when, what, how and who might lead to it? And what is his prognosis if this hope dies?