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, …
Following the report’s publication, the thoughts of Philippe Sands QC, delivered as MAW’s 2010 Remembrance Sunday Lecture at the Imperial War Museum, make interesting and topical reading.
At the end of June 2009 the Institute for Public Policy Research (ippr) published the final report of their Commission on National Security for the 21st Century – Shared Responsibilities: a national security strategy for the UK. It makes for some interesting reading. A copy of the full report can …
Voices of concern are increasingly discussing the likelihood of conflict breaking out across the world due to escalating climate change. However, although there are good grounds for pessimism, we could see this as a problem which, although severe and challenging, faces us with a choice – do we respond with …
Please read the transcript of the annual MAW Remembrance Lecture given by Caroline Lucas MEP at the Imperial War Museum, London, on 14 November 2004.
Professor Sir Joseph Rotblat (1908 – 2005) was a Nobel Peace prize winner. He refused to work on the atomic bomb, was a founder of Pugwash, the international group of scientists, and was a founder member of MAW and its first President. You can read a brief biography here. You …
