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Graeme Smith (born June 3, 1979) is a Canadian author and researcher. He works as a senior analyst for the International Crisis Group.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.crisisgroup.org/en/about/staff/field/asia/smith-graeme.aspx )〕 He has served as a foreign correspondent for ''The Globe and Mail'', a Canadian newspaper. ==Career== Smith was hired by ''The Globe and Mail'' as a staff reporter in 2001. The newspaper appointed him as bureau chief in Winnipeg (2003), Moscow (2005), Kandahar (2006), Delhi (2010), and Istanbul (2011). He also served as an adjunct scholar for the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.nps.edu/programs/ccs/GraemeSmith.html )〕 Smith investigated detainees captured by Canadian troops and transferred into Afghan custody in 2007, revealing widespread torture in local jails. This became known as the Canadian Afghan detainee issue. Two weeks later, Ottawa signed a new bilateral agreement with Kabul to protect prisoners. Smith and his colleague Paul Koring won the Michener Award for public service, granted once a year by the Governor General of Canada.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.michenerawards.ca/english/reporters2007/koring2007.htm )〕 His 2008 multimedia series "Talking to the Taliban"〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://v1.theglobeandmail.com/talkingtothetaliban/ )〕 gave viewers the opportunity to watch 42 Taliban insurgents discuss why they fight, and made public the raw video along with articles and short documentaries. The project won several prizes - including an Emmy Award. During his coverage of the 2011 civil war in Libya, Smith found documents that showed the Chinese government offered large arsenals of weapons to Muammar Gaddafi, in violation of UN sanctions.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.pri.org/stories/2011-09-07/documents-reveal-china-may-have-armed-gadhafi-forces )〕 China apologized. Other documents Smith discovered in Libya contributed to the scandal over engineering giant SNC-Lavalin's role in the country,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/rob-magazine/snc-lavalins-gadhafi-disaster-the-inside-story/article4570115/?page=all )〕 and the coverage won three magazine awards.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.newswire.ca/en/story/1180299/national-magazine-awards-foundation-announces-the-winners-of-the-36th-national-magazine-awards )〕 A Royal Canadian Mounted Police investigation resulted in corruption and fraud charges against the company, and a senior executive was convicted, marking an important test of Canada's Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act. His bestselling book, ''The Dogs Are Eating Them Now: Our War In Afghanistan'', published in 2013 by Knopf/Random House Canada, described the war in southern Afghanistan from 2005 to 2011. The book was nominated for four literary awards and won the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction, Canada's richest prize for non-fiction.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/graeme-smith-s-afghan-war-memoir-wins-60k-non-fiction-prize-1.2129444 )〕 An updated U.S. edition was published in 2014, along with a French translation in 2015.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://www.pulaval.com/produit/et-les-chiens-bouffent-les-cadavres-notre-guerre-en-afghanistan )〕 In 2012, he joined the International Crisis Group as head of the organization's office in Afghanistan.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.crisisgroup.org/en/about/staff/field/asia/smith-graeme.aspx )〕 He writes research papers about politics〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.crisisgroup.org/en/publication-type/media-releases/2014/asia/afghanistan-s-political-transition.aspx )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.crisisgroup.org/en/regions/asia/south-asia/afghanistan/b141-afghanistans-parties-in-transition.aspx )〕 and security,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.crisisgroup.org/en/regions/asia/south-asia/afghanistan/256-afghanistan-s-insurgency-after-the-transition.aspx )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.crisisgroup.org/en/regions/asia/south-asia/afghanistan/268-the-future-of-the-afghan-local-police.aspx )〕 and contributes op-ed articles to publications such as The New York Times, Reuters, and other media outlets. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Graeme Smith (journalist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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