Disarmament, peace and development /
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 pe...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Bingley, U.K. :
Emerald Publishing Limited,
2018.
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| Series: | Contributions to conflict management, peace economics and development ;
v. 27. |
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| Online Access: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Table of Contents:
- 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.
