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Jen Maman, Senior Peace Advisor Greenpeace International on Safety

Posted on October 10, 2020November 10, 2020 by The Five Percent Campaign

https://www.greenpeace.org/international/story/30235/security-military-spending-war-covid-coronavirus/

https://www.greenpeace.org/international/story/45302/what-does-safety-mean-to-you/

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    • An Introduction to Transform Defence
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      • The Military Industrial Complex: How I learnt to stop worrying and love the F-35 Lightning Jet
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    • Climate Collateral (2022)
    • State of Power 2021: Coercive World
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  • The Global Military and Climate Change
    • Military and Conflict-Related Emissions: Kyoto to Glasgow and Beyond
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      • SDG 16 is not good enough
    • Syria and Yemen: the human toll
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What we urgently need now is a rethinking of the entire concept of security. Even after the end of the Cold War, it has been envisioned mostly in military terms. Over the past few years, all we’ve been hearing is talk about weapons, missiles and airstrikes… The overriding goal must be human security: providing food, … Continue reading Mikhail Gorbachev

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