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New wars, dislocation and securitisation
26 July 2018, by DRÉANO Bernard

New wars of dislocation (disruption) ? They are different from the "old" wars between Nation-States. They take place within countries or certain regions. They do not directly oppose States, but rather involve a multiplicity of actors, armies, various militias, as well as external armed forces.

In this context, a “military-security complex” is developing around corporations active in both the military and civilian sectors, serving both external military interventions and internal control policies.
BORDER WARS
21 September 2016, by AKKERMAN Mark

Transnational Institute (TNI) and Stop Wapenhandel (Dutch campaign against the arms trade) launched an important new report on the arms firms profiting from border security. Border Wars shows how key EU arms firms that are the biggest arms sellers to the Middle East and North Africa are also (...)
Why the Paris Climate Summit Is Also a Peace Conference
4 April 2016, by Klare Michael

The Paris summit will be focused on the adoption of measures that would limit global warming to less than catastrophic levels. If it fails, world temperatures in the coming decades are likely to exceed two degrees Celsius (…). A failure to cap carbon emissions guarantees another result as (...)
Demilitarization for Deep Decarbonization
28 March 2016, by Lorincz Tamara

We are on a path toward dangerous climate change without a radical restructuring of our economy and energy systems. That is the stark scenario presented in the latest working group reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Over the past decade, almost ten gigatonnes of (...)
The elephant in Paris – the military and greenhouse gas emissions
28 March 2016, by Buxton Nick

There is no shortage of words in the latest negotiating document for the UN climate negotiations taking place in Paris at the end of November – 32,731 words to be precise, and counting. Yet strangely there is one word you won’t find: military. It is a strange omission, given that the US (...)
A climate of insecurity
28 March 2016, by Parkinson Stuart

Dr Stuart Parkinson, SGR, critically examines the UK’s latest policies on climate change and security in the context of the Paris climate negotiations – and argues for a major change in direction.
Climate change and the Syrian war
As we approach the latest round of international climate (...)

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