Movement for the Abolition of War PRESS RELEASE EMBARGO: 18:00 HOURS, 2 OCTOBER 2013 SCHOOLS DVD HIGHLIGHTS LINK BETWEEN CLIMATE CHANGE AND WARMembers of the press are invited to attend the launch at 6.00pm on Wednesday October 2 at the National Union of Teachers, Hamilton House, Mabledon Place, London WC1H …
In June 2011 the Oxford Research Group produced a discussion paper on the legal obligations governing the use of armed drones. Read the press release and download the paper. Lesley Docksey of MAW has written an article by on this and some of the other legal issues surrounding these weapons.
“Catch 16-22: Recruitment and retention of minors in the British armed forces“ We think of child soldiers as being a problem in places like the Congo. But “child soldiers” include all those under the age of 18. And under those terms we enlist them in Britain too. This report by …
In 2010, the British Pugwash Group published a statement in which three distinguished scientists argue that “War is not inevitable: aggressiveness can be tamed”. British Pugwash is the UK arm of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, an international network of scientists and others concerned about the social …
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 …
