Iain Overton

Iain Overton

  • Executive Director, Action on Armed Violence
  • Associate Professor, SOAS University of London
  • Co-commissioner, Lancet Commission on Global Gun Violence and Health

2 books · 11 reporting projects · 10 awards · 14 articles

Books

Gun Baby Gun

A Bloody Journey into the World of the Gun

Canongate · 2015

A brilliantly researched journey, capturing the gun's strangely accepted place in human life and, far too often, death

Jon Snow

The Price of Paradise

How the Suicide Bomber Shaped the Modern World

Quercus · 2019

A must-read book on the most frightening phenomenon of the modern age … Fascinating

Christina Lamb, The Sunday Times

Selected reporting

2011–2012

Deaths in Custody

Bureau of Investigative Journalism

Amnesty International UK Media Award, Digital, 2012

2010–2011

Europe's Missing Millions

Bureau of Investigative Journalism, for BBC Radio 4 File on Four and Al Jazeera English

Thomson Reuters Reporting Europe Award, 2011

2010

Iraq War Logs

Bureau of Investigative Journalism

Amnesty International UK Media Award, Digital, 2011

2006–2009

More4 News

More4 / ITN

RTS nomination, News Programme of the Year 2007