Time for New Priorities

 

Diplomats and economists will meet in Doha, Qatar, 29 November - 2 December 2008, to review progress in identifying 'innovative sources of development finance'. Among the numerous proposals that will be put forward, will they talk about the money their governments spend on the military?

 

The International Peace Bureau (IPB) has launched a Global Call for Action on Military and Social Spending, in order to urge action on this very important element of the world's economic system, which "could make a huge impact on the fate of the world's poor".

 

The IPB invites civil society organisations of all types and at all geographical levels to endorse this call. The deadline is 15 November 2008, 14 days prior to the opening of the UN conference in Doha on Financing for Development.

 

Download the full text of the Call for Action (251 KB)

 

Report on World Military Expenditures, Decade to Overcome Violence (DOV) Coordination office, 2005

 

Website of the International Peace Bureau (IPB)

 

The International Peace Bureau is dedicated to the vision of a World Without War. The IPB is a Nobel Peace Laureate (1910), and over the years 13 of their officers have been recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize. The IPB's 300 member organisations and individual members in 70 countries, form a global network which brings together expertise and campaigning experience in a common cause. The IPB's main programme centres on Sustainable Disarmament for Sustainable Development.

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