Alastair McIntosh

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  • Alastair McIntosh

    Alastair McIntosh is a Scottish Quaker academic. He is one of the world’s leading environmental campaigners. As a pioneer of modern land reform in Scotland, he helped bring the Isle of Eigg into community ownership. On the Isle of Harris he negotiated withdrawal of the world’s biggest cement company (Lafarge) from a devastating “superquarry” plan. Alastair guest lectures on nonviolence at military staff colleges including, for over two decades, on some of the UK Defence Academy’s most senior courses. 

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