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    • Indefensible: The true cost of the global military to our climate and human security (New Report)
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  • Runaway Military Spending & Emissions: A Development Issue
    • The poorest are always hardest hit
      • Across the board – redirecting 5% funds
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      • SDG 16 is not good enough
    • Syria and Yemen: the human toll
    • Military Spend & Africa
    • The need for an international campaign
    • TPNS Submission to Labour Party
    • TPNS Position Paper Lab Conf 2018
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    • A short introduction
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  • Home – Transform Defence for Sustainable Human Safety
  • The Annual $2 Trillion Spend
    • Global military spending, sustainable human safety and value for money (New Report)
    • The Defence Industry
      • Through The Looking Glass: BAE and CSR
      • The Military Industrial Complex: How I learnt to stop worrying and love the F-35 Lightning Jet
      • Weapons, Walls & Oppression: the EU/UK/Israel military relationship
    • State of Power 2021: Coercive World
  • Latest
  • The Global Military and Climate Change
    • Indefensible: The true cost of the global military to our climate and human security (New Report)
    • Green New Deal Plus
      • GND Plus in a Post Covid-19 world
      • Resources
    • Climate Change & EU Foreign, Security and Defence Policy
  • Economics
    • Five Percent and Universal Basic Income
    • UBI, defence spending and coronavirus
  • Briefings, submissions and reports
    • Archive
    • Submissions
    • Relevant work by others
  • Runaway Military Spending & Emissions: A Development Issue
    • The poorest are always hardest hit
      • Across the board – redirecting 5% funds
      • Debt, Tax & War on Drugs
      • SDG 16 is not good enough
    • Syria and Yemen: the human toll
    • Military Spend & Africa
    • The need for an international campaign
    • TPNS Submission to Labour Party
    • TPNS Position Paper Lab Conf 2018
  • The Global Military and the United Nations
    • What is Carbon Neutral Peace and Defence
  • About Us
    • Team and Advisors
    • Funders
    • Social Media
    • Contact
  • Film, Video, Popular Culture
    • Movie: We Are Many
    • #MLKGlobal
    • Videos
      • It seems impossible until it’s done
      • Introduction and Issues
      • Israel’s global military and security reach
    • Hearts and minds: the military, movies & gaming
  • The Five Percent Proposal
    • A short introduction
    • The 5% Formula: What is it?
    • Full Report (2013)
    • Report (2013): Executive summary
    • Factsheet
    • Reports and Briefings

The 5% Proposal: Introduction and Issues

Reports and briefings

  1. Indefensible The true cost of the global military to our climate and human security
  2. Global military spending, sustainable human safety and value for money
  3. ‘Reset for the 21st century’: The Global Military and the United Nations
  4. The Five Percent Campaign 2013 Report
  5. Runaway military spending and emissions: an urgent overlooked international development issue
  6. The $1 trillion yellow line that we need to return to
  7. Approaching the $2 trillion redline
  8. The Military Industrial Complex: How I learnt to stop worrying and love the F-35 Lightning Jet
  9. Through The Looking Glass: BAE and CSR
  10. Weapons, Walls & Oppression: the EU/UK/Israel military relationship
  11. You say ‘don’t buy,’I say ‘don’t sell.’ Let’s call the arms trade off
  12. Climate Change & EU Foreign, Security And Defence Policy
  13. A brief introduction to Green New Deal Plus
  14. Hearts and minds: the military, movies & gaming

Latest News and Posts

  • Media Release June 3, 2021
  • Research Partnership with TNI State of Power 2021: Coercive World June 1, 2021
  • DW: Scorched earth: The climate impact of conflict May 29, 2021
  • Our new piece in the latest issue of The Environment magazine May 12, 2021
  • WEBINAR: UK Military Budget Briefing March 2, 2021
  • Reassessing SIPRI’s military expenditure estimate for the United Kingdom February 23, 2021
  • Walden Bello on the US-China strategic confrontation February 2, 2021
  • MLK Day: Dismantle Triple Evils and Transform Defence January 18, 2021
  • TPNS new initiative launched with two new reports and a call to ‘Transform Defence’ on 5th anniversary of Paris Climate Agreement December 8, 2020

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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,…

― Mikhail Gorbachev

The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.

― Albert Einstein


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Transform Defence has been developed by Tipping Point North South. Transform Defence for Sustainable Human Safety is a project comprising a number of elements including the Five Percent Proposal and the case that military spending is an urgent international development issue; the global military’s impact on climate change and human insecurity; the absence in UN processes of the global military’s emissions accounting; and Green New Deal Plus. 

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