Iain Overton

Iain Overton runs the London-based charity Action on Armed Violence and is an investigative journalist who has worked in over eighty countries around the world. Reporting from the killing zones of Colombia, Iraq and Somalia, as a filmmaker he has made films for the BBC, ITN and Al Jazeera, as well as working with the Guardian, the Independent and The Sunday Times. His journalism has won a Peabody Award, two Amnesty Awards and a BAFTA Scotland, among others. He was founding editor of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism.

He is the author of Gun Baby Gun (Canongate) and The Price of Paradise (Quercus).

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