Disarmament, peace and development / edited by Reiner Braun, Colin Archer, Ingeborg Breines, Manas Chatterji and Amela Skiljan.

Includes index.

Prelims -- Part 1 Introduction -- Introductory remarks -- Creating an active disgust for war -- Military expenditure and peace -- Part 2 Disarmament for development -- The road map for the future -- Part 3 Sustainable peace -- Toward sustainable peace building -- The political conditions for a lasting global peace -- Part 4 Peace and development -- Peace through work and development -- Peace, conflicts, and the armament race in Southeast Asia -- Part 5 A nuclear weapon free world -- -- A nuclear weapon-free world: mirage or achievable target? -- The treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons -- Part 6 Military spending and peace economics -- Recent trends in global military spending: the shallowest down cycle since World War II -- A survey of literature on military expenditure and development -- Disarmament for sustainable human development: from a culture of war to a culture of peace and nonviolence -- Part 7 The challenge of peace today -- Trade unions and sustainable policy of peace -- Game of Thrones, Patriarchy, feminism, and peacebuilding: how to reconcile the unreconcilable! -- A brief introduction to the intersection of racism and militarism -- Breakthrough: how to claim back our future -- The labor movement and the path to peace -- Learning to disarm: educating to realize the ipb action agenda -- Part 8 Conclusion: disarm! for a climate of peace -- IPB action agenda -- IPB youth declaration -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Index.

Excessive military spendingreduces 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 newvolume 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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