Author  Ian Kenneth Buckley MB, BS, 1951; PhD, (Experimental Pathology), 1961  

Website consists of Essays, including key references on -                   

          Causes and Costs of War,                                            

         Counter-productive Outcomes,

                             Lessons for Prevention,

          How to Meet Needs of Peace, -

                                    And Save the Planet

Australia’s Foreign Wars: Origins, Costs, Future?!
Eleven historically-based essays to inform and warn Australians and others of the means through which people here and across the world have been led into wars not of their making, wars entirely contrary to their interests and well-being.  Indeed, wars counter-productive to all participants and thus, in Churchill’s clearly understated terms, "unnecessary". 
See: http://users.cyberone.com.au/ibuckley/ 

Learning from Adam Smith  -  Help at Hand Today
Essay on how by following the wisdom of Adam Smith we might come to understand where the modern industrial/financial world went wrong, thereby showing us how the world’s economies might be justly optimised to prevent further wars, save our over-stressed planet and provide human justice and agreeable living for all.  
http://users.cyberone.com.au/ibuckley/AdamSmith_Essay.pdf 

’Causes of War’- Australian War Memorial (Education) 
A selection of references taken from books, journals and online sources to assist our understanding of the historical and current origins of war, its utterly destructive negative effects, how it might be prevented, what might be done to replace unbridled resource and market competition and thus save both humankind and the planet’s absolutely crucial life-supporting environment.    
http://www.awm.gov.au/education/classroom/causes.asp.
Also via link on Stephen Luscombe’s excellent British Empire website, http://www.britishempire.co.uk  see http://www.britishempire.co.uk/students/students.htm 

Britain, Empire Decline, and the Origins of WW1
A Case History: Britain, Empire Decline, and the Origins of WW1: Or, Might the Lessons of the Boer War have 'Saved the Day.  This essay considers the circumstances which led Britain to help generate, then take part in the First World War, a war so catastrophically counter-productive to all peoples involved.
http://www.anu.edu.au/emeritus/events/docs/Ian_Buckley_Emeritus_L1_2.pdf. 
Also at: http://www.britishempire.co.uk/article/casehistory.htm

The WW1 Gallipoli Campaign: Aims, Options, Outcomes
Essay describing the reasons behind Britain’s plans to invade Turkey during WWI, its unsuccessful efforts to entice as Allies the Balkan States, the failed all-naval assault to reach Constantinople, and (only) then its hastily organized land campaign, all of which ended so tragically for the people of all countries involved. http://www.anu.edu.au/emeritus/events/docs/Ian_Buckley_Emeritus_L2_2.pdf 
Illustrated at: http://www.britishempire.co.uk/maproom/australiagallipoli.htm

Bio/Family Background                                             

Education and Research.  Early education, Ivanhoe Grammar School.  Post-WW2, Medicine, Melbourne University, graduating 1951.  1955, Began medical research (Experimental Pathology) Department of Pathology under Prof. E.S.J.King,   1963-4, UICC Eleanor Roosevelt Fellow, Charles Pomerat's laboratory, Pasadena Foundation for Medical Research.  1965,  Research Fellow, Keith Porter's Cell Biology laboratory, Harvard University.   1966-7, NH&MRC Research Fellow, Melbourne University Dept. of Pathology.

1968-1990,  Senior Fellow, Department of Experimental Pathology, John Curtin School of Medical Research, ANU, under Prof. Colin Courtice where studies continued on the phenomena and control of cellular (and intra-cellular) movements, including the movements involved in tumour cell invasion and metastasis.  See also Mysteries of Cellular Motion In Frank Fenner and David Curtis, The John Curtin School of Medical Research: The First Fifty Years 1948-1998, pp. 255-258, Brolga Press, 2001

Family Background.   Born, Melbourne,1925, son of Harry and Doris Buckley, one of five, four of whom served in World War II.  Miraculously my oldest brother, Noel, survived Iceland-Murmansk convoys (anti-submarine role) as an officer in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve (RNVR).  As RAAF Navigator assigned (under the Empire Air Training Scheme) to RAF Coastal Command's 53 Squadron, my brother Allan Edward did not survive the war defending Britain's trans-Atlantic life-lines against the submarines it had 'authorised' through the Anglo-German Naval Agreement of 1935.  My sister Joan, an Army officer, served in New Guinea as physiotherapist.  A late starter, I trained and served as RAAF pilot, 1944-45. Too young, my sister Dora remained at school.

Since retirement, I've concentrated on researching and writing about the origins of the overseas wars Australia has been involved in, an interest followed since WW2.  I've also continued working with the Medical Association for Prevention of War (Australia), an organisation earlier formed in Britain by noted epidemiologist Richard Doll (of 'smoking/cancer fame') and others responding to the threat of mutual nuclear annihilation brought on by the Cold War.

Contact

Ian Buckley, ANUEF Events Officer

ibuckley@cybermac.com.au

Emeritus Faculty Building

3T, Fellows Lane Cottage

Australian National University

ACT 0200 Australia