- 06/05/2020
The EU bears a huge responsibility for what the future will look like, and has a key choice to make: work for sustainable peace by seriously tackling the root causes of conflicts, or continue the path to militarism and prepare for war, writes Laëtitia Sédou. Laëtitia Sédou is the EU project officer at the European Network Against Arms Trade (ENAAT)....
- 17/04/2020
Infographic prepared by the Centre Delàs d'Estudis per la Pau and the Global Campaign on Military Spending (GCOMS) as part of the Global Action Days on Military Spending 2020. For further information about the Global Days of Action on Military Spending (GDAMS) go to www.demilitarize.org.
Nora Miralles, Pere Ortega - 17/01/2020
The report “The military and borders’ security industry in Catalonia” aims to provide information on the reality of the presence of this type of companies in Catalonia. The research analyzes the growing trend of production in the security sector, linked to companies that already provided military components and services to big companies of the defense sector or to the Spanish...
- 09/09/2019
Today, 61 civil society organisations active in a wide range of areas (peace, environment, human rights, science, development, health, humanitarian aid, transparency…) wrote to the Members of the newly elected European Parliament, urging them to save the EU peace project: “Since 2017, EU funds have been diverted for military-related spending, with a €590 million envelope to fund military-industrial Research and...
- 30/05/2019
The Delàs Center of Studies for Peace and its members have joined the European Coordination Of Committees And Associations For Palestine petition to stop funding with Research European Programmes, Israeli manufacturers of weapons and surveillance system that test their arms and tecnologies in Gaza as a “test-field”. Researchers, academics and organizations sign this letter that sent to the High Representative of the European Union...
Jordi Calvo, Xavier Bohigas, Teresa de Fortuny, Ainhoa Ruiz Benedicto - 09/01/2019
The transformation of the industrial-military complex. Evolution, influence and violation of human rights in Homeland Security This report has been carried out within the framework of the project “STOP CORPORATE WARS” of prevention of modern warfare. It is part of the investigation and monitorization conducted by the Observatory Shock Monitor about the impact of modern war on human rights, and...
Jordi Calvo - 04/07/2018
Indra is one of the main military companies in Spain and one of the main defences and security companies in Europe. Indra has a strong presence in lobbies in Europe and a close relationship with the Spanish government (18.7% of its shares are owned by SEPI - a public government company), and this active lobbying has resulted in a large...
Pere Ortega, Xavier Bohigas - 30/05/2018
Analysis of the budget of Defense in 2018 Authors: Pere Ortega and Xavier Bohigas The Working Paper of May 2018 analyzes the military expenditure of the General State Budget for 2018. It presents an increase in military spending of 10.5% with respect to 2017, this increase confirms the political will of the Minister of Defense, María Dolores de Cospedal, to reach...
Pere Ortega - 29/05/2018
War begins in our minds, in the movies we watch, in the social relationships we establish, in the educational system... We live in a society that commodifies and turns everything into business from personal relationships to war. This book talks about the business behind the war, and is presented as a tour of all the gears that move around the military economy, ultimately war. It...
- 13/02/2018
A group of transnationals is receiving millions of euros of public research funds to develop surveillance technologies and increasingly invasive espionage, as revealed by a new report published by the Transnational Institute, Statewatch, the Delàs Center for Studies for Peace, International Institute for Nonviolent Action (NOVACT) and the Center for Education and Research for Peace (CEIPAZ). The report Market forces reveals that the research program...
- 06/02/2018
Desde el Centro Delàs de Estudios por la Paz se está impulsando una moción que insta a la regulación del comercio de armas/empresas productoras de armamento a nivel local, desde la premisa que muchas de las exportaciones de material militar guardan una relación directa con los conflictos armados de los cuales huyen las personas refugiadas. La moción, propuesta por la...
Infographics , Infographics , Infographics
- 19/01/2018
For more information you can consult our report "The weapons bubble and the military industry in Spain. Special Armament Programs" Centre Delàs Study Centre for Peace, 2017 With the support of: Diputació de Barcelona
- 19/01/2018
For more information you can consult our report "The weapons bubble and the military industry in Spain. Special Armament Programs" Centre Delàs Study Centre for Peace, 2017. With the support of: Diputació de Barcelona
- 19/01/2018
For more information you can consult our report: "The weapons bubble and the military industry in Spain. Special Armament Programs". Centre Delàs Study Centre for Peace, 2017. With the support of: Diputació de Barcelona
Pere Ortega - 07/09/2017
The weapons bubble and the military industry in Spain. Special Armament Programs The military industry in Spain is largely fuelled by the demands of the Ministry of Defense, and in particular by the so-called Special Armament Programs – Programas Especiales de Armamentos (PEA). PEA were approved the first time in 1998 and since then, due to the commitments made, generated...
Working Papers , Working Papers
Tica Font, Xavier Bohigas, Teresa de Fortuny, Pere Ortega - 22/09/2016
Sumari: - Refugiats de les nostres guerres, Editorial. - Els hidrocarburs i la guerra de Síria Pere Ortega. - Refugiats i Europa, Andrea Jiménez. - Les ciutats no han de ser objectiu de combat, Tica Font. - Pedro Morenés, un paradigma de porta giratòria, Xavier Bohigas i Teresa de Fortuny. Per descarregar el document faci clic aquí
Working Papers , Working Papers
Xavier Bohigas, Teresa de Fortuny - 25/01/2016
Sumario: - Es necesario abolir las armas nucleares, Editorial. - Contribución de las empresas españolas a la financiación del armamento nuclear, Xavier Bohigas y Teresa de Fortuny. - Situación actual del arsenal nuclear mundial, Teresa de Fortuny y Xavier Bohigas. - Mi llamamiento al mundo, Masashi Ieshima. - Mi experiencia de un bombardeo y el deseo por un mundo en...
Tomàs Gisbert - 08/07/2015
This report was born out of two concerns: the first, caused by the situation of extreme violence and barbarism in the city of Buenaventura. This violence is well known, but more than 30,000 people from Bonaventura were able to put it on the front page of the Colombian press during a courageous demonstration on 19 February last year. And the...
Pere Ortega - 10/06/2015
Where do our tax money go Con el nombre de lobby militar industrial se denomina a quienes desde el ámbito industrial ejercen presión sobre los gobiernos en favor de sus intereses corporativos. En España también tenemos este lobby que coarta las decisiones de quienes gobiernan. Esto es muy visible a través de las denominadas puertas giratorias. Si a esto se...
- 17/05/2010
This work claims to offer an analysis of the structure and the three functions of the most important think tanks and represented by the United States, all of the voices in Washington. The three, although have different political views, have the explicit missions to defend and promote the interest of North Americans in the world, and to consolidate the US...
Working Papers , Working Papers
Materiales de trabajo 38, Materiales de trabajo 38, Materiales de trabajo 38 - 08/01/2010
Sumario: - Mercenarios para proteger la pesca española en Somalia. - El nuevo Tratado de Lisboa y la vieja Política de Seguridad y Defensa, Francesc Benítez. - Gasto en I+D militar para 2010, Xavier Bohigas. - La Unión Europea y el comercio de armamento, Eduardo Melero. - El presupuesto de Defensa del Estado Español 2010, Pere Ortega. - Noticias. Para descargar el documento haga...
- 24/11/2009
Atlas del militarismo en España 2009 Publication that explains graphically and visually the Spanish military state: Military spending, weapon industry, arms trade, financing for arms trade, Spanish defense policy, overseas operations and Spanish military state life. Each chapter consist of an introduction, conclusion, and relevant comments; accompanied with graphics, figures, tables, that make it easier to comprehend the data that...
Working Papers , Working Papers
Eduardo Melero, Pere Ortega - 20/05/2009
Sumario: - Aumentar el compromiso con Afganistán retirando las tropas. - El gasto militar del Estado español para el año 2009. - La guerra de Afganistán es una guerra ilegal, Eduardo Melero. - La factura de la guerra y la crisis económica, Pere Ortega. - APPLUS: Bush, Bin Laden y otros. - El fraude de los créditos de I+D militar. Puedes descargar...
Tica Font, Jordi Calvo, Tomàs Gisbert, Pere Ortega - 17/09/2008
Sumario: - Éxito del movimiento pacifista: la prohibición de las bombas de dispersión. - El escándalo de los créditos en I+D militar, Pere Ortega. - Agrocombustibles y violencia, Tomàs Gisbert. - Razones de ser y justificaciones de los ejércitos: la Unidad Militar de Emergencias, Miquel González. - Actualidad de las campañas por el desarme del Centre Delàs, Jordi Calvo. - Informe 2007 de exportaciones...
Pere Ortega - 01/08/2008
Spain belongs to the EU, NATO, WEU,OSCE, forms part of various euro-armies: Eurofor, Euromarfor, and the European army of the EU, and all of this significantly affects the military policy that the Spanish state follows, it even determines its economy, but in principle it seems a militarized country nor being justified by a proportionate threat. Authors: Arcadi Oliveres and Pere...