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New IPB Call for Action
IPB has drawn up an important Call For Action on military spending which we are distributing very widely.
We hope it will resonate with many people's worries about the current financial crisis and the on going mis-appropriation of huge amounts of money. This will be a process. The first round of organisational endorsements will be sent to the upcoming UN conference on Financing for Development. We will then do further outreach in order to reach wide communities around the world, and to stimulate actions at many levels.
Please send organisational endorsements to IPB Secretariat. We will collect endorsements well into 2009...>>English version HERE;
Version française>>> ICI; Deutsche Version >>>HIER; Finnish version>>> HERE; Arabic version >>HERE; Japanese version>>>HERE; Catalan version>>>HERE |
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Joint D for D and Article 9 Project
- Joint outreach project
IPB's Sustainable Disarmament for Sustainable Development Programme and the Global Article 9 Campaign to Abolish War are both advocating a shift in resource allocation from the military to sustainable development and human security. Three years after their launch, the two campaigns are seeking to develop a global network of organisations and institutions which would benefit from reallocation of resources spent on the military. We call on all IPB members and potential partners to join this network, putting the 'D for D' and the Article 9's 'No Military, No War' messages at the core of their campaigns. Find HERE a joint leaflet for information and distribution.
- New IPB Paper - Article 9 and Article 26: Twin campaigns to move the world towards peace and social justice >>>READ MORE
- Japanese Rainbow gathers tens of thousands to defend Article 9
Tokyo, 5 May 2008. By Frederic Durand, IPB representative. “It is simply the major peace event this year” a peace researcher told me, while discussing the Global Article 9 Conference to Abolish War which took place in Tokyo – with parallel meetings >>> READ MORE
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'Books
or Bombs ?'
IPB Seminar, Alexandria 11-12 Nov. 2007
First
set of papers now available
Once
again I would like to thank all our colleagues at the IPS for their efficient
and friendly collaboration, notably Amb. Aly Maher, Prof. Azza M. H El-Kholy
and Ms. Shahinaz Elhennawi... >>>READ MORE |
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Grassroots
Actions Around the World
IPB
Newsletter 29 October 2007. Thousands
in US protests to end the war in Iraq On 27th October, United for Peace
& Justice (UFPJ) organised demonstrations against the war in Iraq in
a dozen cities across the US. The protests where also a call for no war
on Iran. It is regrettable to notice little media coverage of the ... >
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The
Sustainable Disarmament for Sustainable Development Program
(2005-2010)
'Sustainable
development' has become solidly embedded in international political discourse
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Warfare
or Welfare ? - 2005
Disarmament for Development [ Chap.
2 ]
When the UN was founded in 1945 the two principal tasks assigned to it
were international security and the promotion of development.
Small wonder that much thought was given during the following decades
– and much said and written by diplomats and
analysts – to the key linkage between them: a subject that ... >
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Warfare
or Welfare ? - 2005
Impact
of Weapons on Development [ Chap. 4 ]
Whole libraries have been written about the use of weapons in armed conflict.
Far less has been said about their effects on sustainable development,
which is crucial from a human security perspective. This is a vast subject,
since there are so many different weapons types and so many dimensions
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Warfare
or Welfare ?- 2005
Conclusion
[ Chap. 7 ]
The tragic war in Iraq, as well as many other contemporary armed conflicts,
has reminded us of the high price of militarism and of the military-led
response to the challenge of terrorism. Making the challenge : It is a
political tragedy that so many billions of dollars are being poured into
an apparently bottomless pit. >
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ECOSOC
Meeting Leaflet, July '07
Armed
Conflict, Disarmament and Development, organized jointly by Peace Boat
and International Peace Bureau. Speakers : Yoshioka Tatsuya, Peace Boat,
Japan - Colin Archer, IPB Switzerland - Jasna Bastic, Journalist, Peace
Boat. ... > READ
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Geneva
June '06 Seminar Summary
The
International Peace Bureau, in cooperation with the World Council of Churches
organised a seminar on the theme of its new campaign « Disarmament
for Development ». World military spending has once again exceeded
$1000 billion, more than it was at the
height of the Cold War. The “long war against ... > READ
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IPB
Consultation London Oct '05
Organised
by the International Peace Bureau and Just Defence. The purpose of the
Consultation was to explore possibilities for, and challenges to, the
new IPB Programme ‘Disarmament for Development’. It served also
as a farewell activity of the British group Just Defence, who have worked
over many ... > READ
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Film
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