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Rt. Hon Lord Tebbit
Dr Martin Parsons has been an aid worker, teacher and academic. As an aid worker in Afghanistan he and a Norwegian colleague were the first westerners to visit a remote mountainous region approxima...view moreDr Martin Parsons has been an aid worker, teacher and academic. As an aid worker in Afghanistan he and a Norwegian colleague were the first westerners to visit a remote mountainous region approximately a week’s walk from the end of the nearest road, which until then had been just a ‘blank’ area on the map. He subsequently began work on unscrambling the unwritten tribal language and set up an aid project to help the local people.
He has also held senior leadership roles in education both in the UK and overseas including having been Principal of an English Language Institute in Pakistan and a member of the NGO committee which functioned as the Afghan national education committee during the time when the Taliban were in power. After his return to the UK he became an examiner for A level Geography and part of the senior leadership team helping establish a new sixth form college which significantly improved educational attainment in a deprived UK coastal town; He later set up a new course in Research Ethics at a university.
Martin has also been a passionate advocate for persecuted Christians. While undertaking aid work in Afghanistan and Pakistan he was involved in helping local Christians including during the Taliban era when Afghan Christians were being severely persecuted. He has also been head of research at the international headquarters of an aid agency supporting Christian victims of persecution around the world and a faculty member of the Oxford Centre for Religion and Public Life.
Martin has degrees in both Geography and Theology, a PhD in Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations and is a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He has written extensively for a number of political publications including the UK Conservative Christian Fellowship’s Conservativism magazine, The Difference, Conservative Way Forward, Brexit Central and has written regularly for ConservativeHome with a particular focus on both the challenge of radical Islam to the UK’s historic national identity and values and on international relations. He has also been actively involved in politics himself as a local councillor. This is his second major book.view less