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Disarmament, Peace and Development

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

Book information

Publisher
Emerald Publishing
Year
2018
ISBN
9781787439931, 9781787438552, 9781787438545
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
956 kB (978896 bytes)
Series
Contributions to Conflict Management, Peace Economics and Development, 27
Pages
208\0
Time added
2022-08-08 14:34:19

Description

Excessive military 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 tendencies in politics and acts against democratic values. If we want to achieve peace, eliminate poverty, decrease inequality, and achieve social justice, we should devote all our energies to reducing military spending and using the released resources for economic development. For that, we need a concerted effort to encourage disarmament. This new volume provides reflections and insights from leading public figures and activists who oppose military expenditure in any form. Many of the contributions to this volume were presented as speeches at the 'Disarm!For a Climate of Peace' meeting held in Berlin in 2016, organized by the International Peace Bureau. The volume also includes additional research-oriented chapters to complement the transcripts from the International Peace Bureau meeting.

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