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 …
In recent years, the UK Government has published its first National Security Strategy (2008) and also a “Strategic Defence and Security Review” (2010) – the first since 1998. From the National Security Strategy: ‘The aim of this first National Security Strategy is to set out how we will address and …
by Lewis PageArrow Books, 2007 Lewis Page had experience of all three arms of the Services, ending up in the Navy, leaving in 2004. He clearly cares about our Armed Forces, and writes with a great deal of affection, not to say in-house banter. He gives a breakdown of the …
by Norman BakerMethuen, 2007 Following Andrew Gilligan’s report on the ‘sexed up’ evidence used in the ‘dodgy’ dossier, the furore in the media, the sacking of Gilligan by the BBC and the leaking of his source’s name, there was both shock and outrage when that source, Dr David Kelly, was …
ed David Cromwell and Mark LevenePluto Press, 2007 This, the first multi-authored book from Crisis Forum, set up for the study of crises in the C21st (www.crisis-forum.org.uk), is for those who want to read about what is really going on around the politics of climate change. Governments and business keep …
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 …
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.
The Barcelona Report – ‘A Human Security Doctrine for Europe’ – from the EU Centre for the Study of Global Governance was published in 2004. See Christine Titmus’s comments: ‘A building-block towards the abolition of war‘.
The Barcelona Report was presented to the European Union High Representative for Common Foreign Policy, Javier Solana, on 15 September 2004, by the Study Group on Europe’s security capabilities. Christine Titmus comments: A building-block towards the abolition of war “But what’s the alternative to violent force?” I feel the peace movement …
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 …
