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	Extra news items on Disarmament for Development For more news items on Disarmament for Development please go to http://ipb.org/i/newsletters-and-publications/VI-A-ipb-newsletters-and-calendars.html These are usually divided into: a) Military expenditure, b) Impacts of weapons on development, c) other aspects. Also: Resources and Calendar. Published monthly. Available on request by email direct to your Inbox, contact Secretariat.
	Disarmament for Development: A Key to Ending Poverty (a useful summary text) Militarism is probably the world’s largest barrier to ending poverty. Whether it be armies and weapons of war, or small arms flowing into our neighbourhoods and local communities, militarism destroys communities, wastes resources and prevents sustainable development. Military and weapons spending consumes resources that could be applied instead to human needs. The flow of arms into a conflict region destroys democratic and traditional control structures for land-use, production and the economy and replaces this with warlords, gang leaders and militias...Read More
	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
	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
	'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
	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 ... > READ MORE
	The Sustainable Disarmament for Sustainable Development Program (2005-2010) 'Sustainable development' has become solidly embedded in international political discourse since the UNCED ... > READ MORE
	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 ... > READ MORE
	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 ... > READ MORE
	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. > READ MORE
	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 MORE
	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 MORE
	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 MORE
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