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Carne Ross is a former British diplomat who resigned in 2004 after giving then-secret evidence to a British inquiry into the Iraq war. 

After he quit, he founded the world's first non-profit diplomatic advisory group, Independent Diplomat, which advises marginalized countries and groups around the world. In 2007, his critique of contemporary diplomacy was published in Independent Diplomat: Dispatches from an Unaccountable Elite.

Carne's analysis of world affairs and his deepening interest in alternate systems of organising affairs (in particular, anarchism) are explored in his latest book, The Leaderless Revolution: How Ordinary People Will Take Power and Change Politics in the 21st Century.

Carne's experience from inside an institution dealing with some of the most difficult of contemporary challenges--terrorism, Iraq, Afghanistan--has convinced him that government, as currently constituted, is a poor and failing mechanism to deal with the world's problems. We need to look for alternatives, not least action by us, ourselves.

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"No Way Out"
Financial Times

Carne Ross Interview
The Colbert Report

"Carne Ross in Conversation with Nikolas Kozloff"
Brooklyn Rail

"Carne Ross: Time for States to Give Way to People Power"
The Independent

"Down With Leadership"
The Huffington Post

"Understanding the Global Revolution"
The Huffington Post

"A Former British Diplomat's Call to Arms"
Global Post

The Guide to the Leaderless Revolution
CarneRoss.com

Carne Ross Interview: "Pursuing a Better Way of Banking"
The Rachel Maddow Show

Carne Ross Lecture
London School of Economics

"Are Diplomats Necessary?"
The New York Review of Books

"The Independent Diplomat"
Business Innovation Factory

The Leaderless Revolution Review
The Guardian

Carne Ross Profile
Time

Carne Ross Article Archive
The Huffington Post

Carne Ross Article Archive
Open Democracy

• Carne Ross's TED Talk
• Carne Ross Interview with Bill Moyers