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Militaries and conflict: critical gaps in climate action

Published by: Conflict and Environment Conservatory

Analysing how governments address military emissions and conflict impacts in UNFCCC Nationally Determined Contributions: the climate action plans that set out how emissions will be reduced and how countries will adapt to climate risks.

Training, Bases, and Militarization in Latin America (Entrenamiento, Bases y Militarización en América Latina)

This book, Training, Bases, and Militarization in Latin America: NATO and the United States in Latin America—compiled by Pablo Ruiz Espinoza—arrives at a historic moment of profound global geopolitical reconfiguration. Its objective is as clear as it is urgent: to expose the multiple ways in which global militarism—driven primarily by the United States and NATO—continues to reproduce structures of domination in our region through new guises, discourses, and technologies.

Author: Pablo Ruiz Espinoza

The Security We Choose: The opportunity cost of UK military spending on education and human security

Published by: National Education Union

Executive summary

UK military spending is rising to the detriment of other public spending

The UK’s commitment to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) target of spending 3.5 per cent of its GDP on defence by 2035 will require an additional £36 billion per year in current terms.

To pay for this, the government is redirecting funds from other government departments and threatening “eye-watering” cuts to public services at a time when many are on the brink of collapse.

The impacts are falling hardest on those least able to shoulder the burden, including through steep cuts to international development assistance and by reduced investment in public services and social security.

Education under strain

Education in the UK has suffered immensely during austerity, with real-terms funding falling by billions since 2010.

Increases to defence spending undermine prospects to close funding gaps, including for teacher pay, building refurbishment, and supporting students with special educational needs.

UK aid and development support to education globally has fallen by 80 per cent since 2016.

One in five children live within 50km of an armed conflict, and attacks on education are becoming increasingly common, rising by 50 per cent in 2024-25 compared with the previous two years.

Just 1.5 days of global military spending in 2025 could pay for an entire year of aid to education.

Rethinking security

Security is about more than borders and external threats. Insecurity is more often experienced through economic, climate, democratic, health and social deficits than an attack by a foreign power. These too have life or death consequences.

Lasting peace requires tackling the drivers of insecurity, which military action often cannot address but can exacerbate. • The UK needs a human centred-approach to security, which prioritises people’s wellbeing and creates the conditions for more equitable, peaceful societies. Security through economic justice

77 per cent of the British public would prefer the government raise taxes on the very richest than cut public services. • A two per cent tax on wealth above £10 million is becoming increasingly popular, including among millionaires.

True security requires an economy that measures success through the extent to which people are able to live secure, healthy and dignified lives, in the UK and around the world.

The Security We Choose: A call to action

The UK must balance the need to respond to genuine threats to the nation’s security with the responsibility to invest in the conditions for people to live secure lives, in the UK and globally.

NEU4532 Impact of military spending on the right to education HQP Download

Technical Note: Brazil and Proposals for Nuclear Armament in the 2026 Elections

This technical note is published by Dhesarme — Brazilian Action for Humanitarian Disarmament.

In this Technical Note

Introduction

1. Brazil and Its Historical Commitment to Nuclear Non-Proliferation

2. The 2026 Elections and Proposals to Develop and Arm the Brazilian State with Nuclear Weapons

3. Nuclear Weapons: Humanitarian Impacts, Military Expenditures and Brazil

Conclusion

European Peace Strategy

For A Shared, Human-Centered Future

A strategy for European States, EU Institutions, Municipalities and Civil Society Actors. This book contains 42 proposals for active peace policy.

Concept and Project Lead: Thomas Roithner, Int. Fellowship of Reconciliation – Austrian Branch, Fabian Hämmerle, ICAN Austria – Kampagne zur Abschaffung von Nuklearwaffen Marit Seyer, Campaign to Stop Killer Robots Austria

EU Military Spending: What You Need to Know

This report is produced by Transnational Institute (TNI), European Network Against the Arms Trade (ENAAT), and Stop Wapenhandel.

Factsheet 1 | EU Military Spending until 2027: From ‘Peace Project’ to Arms Investor

Discover how the European Union’s military spending has expanded dramatically in recent years, reshaping priorities, budgets, and policies across Europe. Download the factsheet for key figures, funding mechanisms, and insights into the shift from a self-described “peace project” to a major investor in defence and arms production.

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IPB Situational Brief: The Sudanese Civil War

The Victims, The Perpetrators & The Lifelines

June 2026 | International Peace Bureau

This situational brief examines the ongoing civil war in Sudan, tracing the origins of the conflict, the regional and international actors sustaining it, and its devastating impact on civilians. It highlights the widespread atrocities committed during the war, the catastrophic humanitarian crisis facing the Sudanese population, and the vital role played by Sudan’s Emergency Response Rooms (ERRs) in sustaining communities amid state collapse. The brief also outlines the failures of the international response and presents the International Peace Bureau’s position and calls to action for governments, institutions, and civil society.

IPB POSITION & CALL TO ACTION

The International Peace Bureau (IPB) recognizes the Sudan Emergency Response Rooms as among the most extraordinary examples of civilian-led humanitarian action in recent history. In a context of state collapse, genocidal violence, and international neglect, ERR volunteers have sustained millions of lives at extraordinary personal risk.

The Child Peacebuilder Guide: 10 Pillars for Practicing Peace

Developed by Re-Imagining New Communities. Inspired by children
participating in Children-Led Community Peace Labs ( CLCP-Labs) by
Sahlim Charles

Think about it. Whenever you type the term “Peace Processes” into a
search engine, what appears are images of high-level negotiations in
conference halls, policy forums, diplomatic roundtables and often
military presence in fragile contexts. This is not accidental; these
images reflect how peace is commonly framed and understood in
global discourse. Peace is often portrayed as elite, institutional and
distant from everyday life.

Yet in the everyday life of a schoolyard, a church/ temple/ shrine/
mosque, or a neighborhood, children are already practicing peace in
ways that are immediate, relational and deeply transformative. When a
child says “I will help you,” “I am sorry,” or “Come, let’s do this together,”
they are not merely behaving well, they are exercising leadership. Theseacts by children remind the global community that peace is not
abstract. It is built in daily interactions, small choices, and shared
responsibility.

Working Paper “On the Problem of Military GHG Emissions Assessment”

Published By: The Centre d’Estudis per la Pau J.M. Delàs (Centre of Studies for Peace J.M. Delàs)

The climate emergency represents one of the most serious problems currently facing humankind. It is widely known that anthropogenic greenhouse gases (GHGs) – those released by human activities – continue to be drivers of climate change. Both armed forces and the military industry emit GHGs. Signatories to the Paris Agreement are required to report their emissions; however, reporting the activity of their armed forces remains voluntary, and many choose not to do so. Combined with the vague and fragmented information the military industry tends to provide, this makes it difficult to obtain a clear and reliable picture of the GHG emissions for which the military sector is actually responsible. This being the case, numerous researchers have attempted to evaluate these emissions using a range of methodologies and primary sources.

‘You cannot tax poverty, you cannot extort the desperate.’

The Pamoja kwa Amani Coalition expresses its profound indignation and deep concern over the escalating economic oppression imposed on civilian populations by the AFC-M23 rebel movement in the areas under its de facto administration.

Since the start of the aggression, the cities of Bukavu and Goma, along with their surrounding areas, have experienced a complete breakdown of their economies: