Disarmament, Peace and Development Vol: 27

Reiner Braun
International Peace Bureau, Germany

Colin Archer
International Peace Bureau, UK

Ingeborg Breines
International Peace Bureau, Norway

Manas Chatterji
Binghamton University, USA

Amela Skiljan
International Peace Bureau, Germany


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Excessivemilitary 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 tendenciesin politics and acts against democratic values. If we want to achieve peace,eliminate poverty, decrease inequality, and achieve social justice, we shoulddevote all our energies to reducing military spending and using the releasedresources for economic development. For that, we need a concerted effort toencourage disarmament. 

This newvolume provides reflections and insights fromleading public figures and activists who oppose military expenditure in anyform. Many of the contributions to this volume were presented as speeches atthe 'Disarm!For a Climate of Peace' meetingheld in Berlin in 2016, organized by the International Peace Bureau. The volume also includes additional research-oriented chapters to complement the transcriptsfrom the International Peace Bureau meeting.

Foreword; Manas Chatterji
Acknowledgements
Part 1. Introduction
Chapter1. Introductory Remarks; Reiner Braun, Ingeborg Breines, and Colin Archer
Chapter2. Creating an Active Disgust for War; Ingeborg Breines
Chapter3. Military Expenditure and Peace; His Excellency, Archbishop NikolaEterović
Part 2. Disarmament for Development
Chapter4. The Road Map for the Future; Michael Møller
Part3. Sustainable Peace
Chapter5. Towards Sustainable Peace Building; Tawakkol Karman
Chapter6. The Political Conditions for a Lasting Global Peace; Samir Amin
Part4. Peace and Development
Chapter7. Peace through Work and Development; Frank Bsirske
Chapter8. Peace, Conflicts and the Armament Race in South-East Asia; Corazon Fabros
Part5. A Nuclear Weapon Free World
Chapter9. A Nuclear Weapon Free World: Mirage or Achievable Target? JayanthaDhanapala
Chapter10. The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons; Arielle Denis
Part6. Military Spending and Peace Economics
Chapter11. Recent Trends in Global Military Spending: The Shallowest Down Cycle Since World War II? AudeFleurant
Chapter12. A Survey of Literature on Military Expenditure and Development; ManasChatterji
Chapter13. Disarmament for Development: From a Culture of War to a Culture of Peace and Non Violence; FedericoMayor Zaragoza
Part7. The Challenge of Peace Today
Chapter14. Trade Unions and a Sustainable Policy of Peace; ReinerHoffmann
Chapter 15. Game of Thrones, Patriarchy,Feminism and Peacebuilding: How to Reconcile the Unreconcilable! Madeleine Rees
Chapter16. Brief Introduction to the Intersection of Racism and Militarism; MeenaJagannath
Chapter17. Breakthrough: How to Claim Back Our Future; Jakob vonUexkull
Chapter18. The Labor Movement and the Path to Peace; PhilipJennings
Chapter19. Learning to Disarm: Education to Realize the IPB Action Agenda; BettyReardon
Part8. Conclusion: Disarm! For a Climate of Peace
Chapter 20. IPB Action Agenda
Chapter21. IPB Youth Declaration
Appendix 1. MilitaryExpenditure and Economic Development (a Partial Bibliography)
Appendix 2. WorldMilitary Expenditure
Reiner Braun is Co-president of the International Peace Bureau, Switzerland, Executive Director of the International Association of Lawyers against Nuclear Arms (IALANA), and a founding member of the International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility (INES).
Colin Archer is a formerSecretary-General of the International Peace Bureau, Switzerland. For 10 years he was the Coordinator of a solidarity center in the developing world, and he has been involved in a wide range of peaceand disarmament projects.
Ingeborg Breines is a former director of UNESCO on Women and a Culture of Peace, and a UNESCOrepresentative to Pakistan and to the UN in Geneva, Switzerland.
Manas Chatterji is a Professor of Management at Binghamton University at State University of NewYork, USA. He is theauthor of 35 books and several articles in the areas of peace science, military spending, disarmament, conflict management, and environmental and urban management.
Amela Skiljan is the Coordinator of the International Peace Bureau (IPB) in Berlin, Germany.

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