World Peace Foundation

World Peace Foundation

Intellectual leadership for peace

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    • PEACE AND GLOBAL TRENDS
      • Global Arms Trade and Corruption
        • Revitalizing Debate on the Global Arms Trade
        • Defense Industries, Foreign Policy and Armed Conflict
        • Indefensible
        • The Corruption Tracker
      • Political Markets and Conflict Research
        • PeaceREP
        • Carbon Compacts, Decarbonization, and Peace in Fragile States in Africa and the Middle East
    • PROTECTING VULNERABLE GROUPS
      • Mass Atrocities Research
        • Memory from the Margins
        • Mass Atrocity Endings Research
        • Dignity for the Dead: In Their Presence
      • Mass Starvation Research
        • Accountability for Starvation
        • The History and Future of Famine
          • Famine Trends Dataset, Tables and Graphs
      • Tracking COVID-19 in Detention
      • Children and Youth Staying Safe in Violent Conflict
    • AFRICAN PEACE RESEARCH
      • Responding to Crises in the Horn
      • Sudan Peace Archive
      • African Peace Missions
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    • Bridget Conley publications
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    • Dyan Mazurana WPF publications
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      • In Their Presence: Debates on the dignity, display, and ownership of human remains
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military spending

Global Arms Trade Program 

Myth 6: National security requires blanket secrecy

December 22, 2017June 30, 2021 Lisa Avery 1777 Views arms trade, corruption, Global Arms Business, Global Arms Trade, military spending

For some aspects of defence and security, there is a clear justification for secrecy by governments: war planning, technical details

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Global Arms Trade Program 

Myth 4: National arms industries are technologically innovative job creators

December 22, 2017June 29, 2021 Lisa Avery 1878 Views Global Arms Business, Global Arms Trade, military spending

                When security justifications for military spending and arms trade falter, the economic

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Global Arms Trade Program 

Myth 2: Military spending is driven by security concerns

December 21, 2017June 30, 2021 Lisa Avery 2578 Views F35, Global Arms Business, Global Arms Trade, Lockheed Martin, military spending, Security

The decisions to build, sell or buy weapons systems often have little to do with defending the nation. Other factors

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Global Arms Trade Program 

Myth 1: Higher military spending equals increased security

December 20, 2017June 30, 2021 Lisa Avery 2594 Views Global Arms Business, Global Arms Trade, military spending, peace, Security, Terrorism

The world spends a lot on preparing for war, $1686 billion at the last estimate by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute

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Global Arms Trade Program 

The F35–Better Ways to Spend a Trillion Dollars

September 1, 2017October 30, 2020 Bridget Conley 1936 Views F35, Global Arms Business, Global Arms Trade, military spending

Below is a script of the transcript with links to research supporting the claims made in the video and additional

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