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Reiner Braun, Colin Archer, Ingeborg Breines, Manas Chatterji, Amela Skiljan - Disarmament, Peace and Development, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

Disarmament, Peace and Development

Av Reiner Braun, Colin Archer, Ingeborg Breines, Manas Chatterji, Amela Skiljan

Del 27 i serien Contributions to Conflict Management, Peace Economics and Development

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Excessivemilitary spending reduces the available financial reserves for health,education, and other human needs. For poor countries, it increases poverty,unemployment, and destitution. It also strengthens dictatorial tendenciesin politics and acts against democratic values. If we want to achieve peace,eliminate poverty, decrease inequality, and achieve social justice, we shoulddevote all our energies to reducing military spending and using the releasedresources for economic development. For that, we need a concerted effort toencourage disarmament. This newvolume provides reflections and insights fromleading public figures and activists who oppose military expenditure in anyform. Many of the contributions to this volume were presented as speeches atthe 'Disarm!For a Climate of Peace' meetingheld in Berlin in 2016, organized by the International Peace Bureau. The volume also includes additional research-oriented chapters to complement the transcriptsfrom the International Peace Bureau meeting.
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Reiner Braun is Co-president of the International Peace Bureau, Switzerland, Executive Director of the International Association of Lawyers against Nuclear Arms (IALANA), and a founding member of the International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility (INES).Colin Archer is a formerSecretary-General of the International Peace Bureau, Switzerland. For 10 years he was the Coordinator of a solidarity center in the developing world, and he has been involved in a wide range of peaceand disarmament projects.Ingeborg Breines is a former director of UNESCO on Women and a Culture of Peace, and a UNESCOrepresentative to Pakistan and to the UN in Geneva, Switzerland.Manas Chatterji is a Professor of Management at Binghamton University at State University of NewYork, USA. He is theauthor of 35 books and several articles in the areas of peace science, military spending, disarmament, conflict management, and environmental and urban management.Amela Skiljan is the Coordinator of the International Peace Bureau (IPB) in Berlin, Germany.

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During September-October 2016, the International Peace Bureau, with other partners, held an international congress in Berlin, and this volume contains 18 main plenary papers from it. They cover disarmament for development, sustainable peace, peace and development, a nuclear weapon free world, military spending and peace economics, and the challenge of peace today. Among their topics are creating an active disgust for war, the political conditions for a lasting global peace, recent trends in global military spending: the shallowest down cycle since World War II, trade unions and a sustainable policy of peace, and learning to disarm: educating to realize the International Peace Bureau action agenda.

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