Disarmament, Peace and Development.

Front Cover -- Disarmament, Peace and Development -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Part 1 Introduction -- Introductory Remarks -- Planning Process -- Structure -- Venue -- Outcomes -- What now? -- Notes -- Creating an Active Disgust for War -- Military Expenditure and Peace -- Part 2 Disarmament for Development -- The Road Map for the Future -- Note -- Part 3 Sustainable Peace -- Toward Sustainable Peace Building -- The Political Conditions for a Lasting Global Peace -- Notes -- Part 4 Peace and Development -- Peace through Work and Development -- From "The End of History" to "Pax Americana" -- The World in Transition and the Return of Insecurity -- Peaceful Democracies Need Distributive Justice and Prospects for the Future -- Globalization Must be Designed for the People -- Propensity for Violence Cannot be Fought with Weapons: It Needs Perspectives for the People -- Weapons of Mass Destruction do not Create Security: They Undermine it - Disarmament Now! -- Peace Policy Needs Peace-political Alliances -- Notes -- Peace, Conflicts, and the Armament Race in Southeast Asia -- Background and Introduction -- The US Pivot in Asia and China's Rising Military Power -- Notes -- Part 5 A Nuclear Weapon Free World -- A Nuclear Weapon-free World: Mirage or Achievable Target? -- Note -- The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons -- The TPNW Paves the Way toward Elimination -- Part 6 Military Spending and Peace Economics -- Recent Trends in Global Military Spending: The Shallowest Down Cycle since World War II -- Trends in Military Expenditure and Arms Transfers: A Complex and Nuanced Picture -- Security Dynamics are being Framed in Militaristic Terms -- Notes -- A Survey of Literature on Military Expenditure and Development -- Introduction.

Regression and Econometric Analysis of Military Spending and Economic Growth -- Toward a Socioeconometric Model of Arms Race in the Indian Subcontinent -- India -- References -- Disarmament for Sustainable Human Development: From a Culture of War to a Culture of Peace and Nonviolence -- Notes -- Part 7 The Challenge Of Peace Today -- Trade Unions and Sustainable Policy of Peace -- Europe's Responsibility -- The Revival of Arms Conversion -- An Industrial Policy for Conversion -- In-house Co-determination, Trade Union Work, and Conversion -- Arms and Economy - in Germany and Europe -- Prevention, Not Armament -- Future Prevention of War -- Notes -- Game of Thrones, Patriarchy, Feminism, and Peacebuilding: How to Reconcile the Unreconcilable! -- Notes -- A Brief Introduction to the Intersection of Racism and Militarism -- Notes -- Breakthrough: How to Claim Back Our Future -- Notes -- The Labor Movement and the Path to Peace -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Learning to Disarm: Educating to Realize the IPB Action Agenda -- Learning as the Politics of Peace -- Three Interrelated Imperatives are Constitutive to All Challenges Identified -- The Earth Imperative: Ecological Thinking -- The War Imperative: Systemic Institutional Thinking -- The Gender Imperative: Humanly Inclusive Thinking -- Conclusion: Process Concepts for Action Learning: From Reductionism to Holism -- from Patriarchy to Human Equality -- Disarmament Toward Human Security in a Culture of Peace -- Development to Restore our Earth -- Deconstruction of Patriarchy Toward Human Equality -- Part 8 Conclusion: Disarm! For a Climate of Peace -- IPB Action Agenda -- Action Agenda of the IPB -- Vision -- Challenges -- Approaches and Strategies -- Actions and Demands -- Military Spending -- Specific Measures in the Disarmament Field -- Conclusion -- Notes -- IPB Youth Declaration.

Declaration on Demilitarization and Youth -- Notes -- Appendix 1 -- Bibliography -- Appendix 2 -- Index.

This new volume provides reflections and insights from leading public figures and activists who oppose military expenditure in any form. Many of the contributions to this volume were presented as speeches at the 'Disarm! For a Climate of Peace' meeting held in Berlin in 2016, organized by the International Peace Bureau.

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