Our conference for peace activists and scholars to discuss methods and strategies to lead us in a new direction took place on Saturday, 14 September, 2024. We had an excellent line-up of inspirational speakers: Paul Rogers, Diana Francis, John Gittings, Jonathan Cohen, Gwen Burnyeat and Tanya Hubbard. It was held …
MAW Zoom event Friday 10 May 2024, 7pmFrom COP28 to COP29 – what we hope for in 2024. An electrifying talk by Deborah Burton, co-founder of campaigning NGO “Tipping Point North South”, given to MAW on 10 May 2024. Starting with an interview recorded in the heart of UN COP28 …
UK Chief of the Defence Staff Sir Mark Carleton-Smith, speaking at the Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) – [The Arms Fair] – Excel Centre, London Born in a British Army base in Bielefeld, Germany, son of a Major General, Eton, Guards Regiment, lower second class BA from Durham University …
In January we celebrated the entry into force of the new UN treaty prohibiting nuclear weapons, but our joy was short-lived. On 26/02/21, we heard from Shadow Defence Secretary John Healey that Labour’s support for the ‘nuclear deterrent’ is ‘non-negotiable’. Much worse was to come with the publication of the …
by Lesley Docksey, 18/07/11 The UK Ministry of Defence, in common with the defence policies of other states, is increasing its development, manufacture and use of armed drones. In a report published earlier this year, it stated that ‘a technological tipping point is approaching that may well deliver a genuine revolution in …
A publication from Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom, 2010 “Whilst military capacity is exposed every day to be a terminally ineffective method of assuring security given the nature of modern threats, militaries the world over consume ever-increasing amounts of the world’s human and economic resources. Despite this realization, …
by Bruce KentThis article first appeared in Pax Christi’s newsletter, Justpeace, for March/April 2005 “Making Poverty History” must also mean making war history. World annual military expenditure is again creeping up to the 1 trillion dollar mark – that’s a thousand billion dollars a year – a sum that dwarfs …
