Resultats de la cerca: Mark Akkerman


Chloé Meulewaeter
07/12/2023

Report from ENAAT with Centre Delàs: “From war lobby to war economy. How the arms industry shapes European policies”

L'octubre de 2017 l'ONG belga Vredesactie va publicar l'informe Securing Profits. How the arms lobby is hijacking Europe's defence policy. Aquest exposa l'elevat grau d'influència que la indústria armamentista -especialment un grapat de grans empreses- està tenint en la conformació de les naixents polítiques militars de la UE, centrant-se en el paper que ha tingut en el desenvolupament tant del...





17/10/2023

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Report from Transnational Institute, Stop Wapenhandel and Tipping Point, with the collaboration of Centre Delàs: “Climate crossfire. How NATO’s 2% military targets contribute to climate breakdown”

Climate mitigation and adaptation efforts are chronically underfunded by billions of dollars, deepening the climate crisis and its impacts on citizens around the world. This has made climate finance one of the most contentious issues at annual United Nations climate summits as the richest countries that bear the most responsibility for climate breakdown have failed to keep even their limited...




14/11/2022

Report from Transnational Institute, Stop Wapenhandel and Tipping Point, with the collaboration of IPB and Centre Delàs: “Climate collateral. How military spending accelerates climate breakdown”

As the world’s climate negotiators gather for their annual summit (COP27) in Egypt, military spending is unlikely to be on the official agenda. Yet, as this report shows, military spending and arms sales have a deep and lasting impact on the capacity to address the climate crisis, let alone in a way that promotes justice. Every dollar spent on the...



Pere Brunet
17/03/2022

ENAAT and TNI’s report: “Fanning teh flames. How the European Union is fuelling a new arms race”

The European Defence Fund (EDF) and its precursor programmes explicitly aim to strengthen the ‘global competitiveness’ of the technological industrial base of European defence. There is a major disconnect between such technologies and their potential impact beyond the profits they will generate. They will inevitably boost European arms exports and fuel the global arms race, which will in turn lead...

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16/12/2020

6 out of 10 people worldwide live in a country that has built border walls

The report “A Walled World, towards a Global Apartheid”, aims to analyze the walls that have been built on the borders from 1968 to 2018, as well as the different reasons and more paradigmatic cases of these policies of walled-in. The research also investigates the main companies in the military industrial and security complex, as well as others in the...



Pere Brunet, Jordi Calvo, Chloé Meulewaeter, Alejandro Pozo
26/11/2020

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Military Spending and Global Security: Humanitarian and Environmental Perspectives

Global military expenditure reached an estimated $1,822 billion in 2018 and this book questions what that spending responds to and indeed what that entails in terms of global security. The book draws from prior knowledge and research on military expenditure but introduces an all-encompassing, in-depth and original analysis of military spending as a key and often overlooked factor of global...




26/11/2020

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Routledge publishes the book “Military Spending and Global Security: Humanitarian and Environmental Perspectives” edited by Jordi Calvo

Routledge has launched today the book “Military Spending and Global Security: Humanitarian and Environmental Perspectives”, edited by Centre Delàs Coordinator, Global Campaign On Military Spending (GCOMS) Coordinator and International Peace Bureau (IPB) vice-president, Jordi Calvo Rufanges. The book is part of a joint project of Centre Delàs d'Estudis per la Pau and IPB, carried out within the framework of the...




18/11/2020

6 out of 10 people worldwide live in a country that has built border walls

63 border walls have been built in the last 50 years (1968-2018)60% of the walls were erected to prevent the entry of forcibly displaced persons.Europe is the region with the second highest numbers of walls (26% of the total),  behind Asia which has more than half of the world's walls (56% of the total).American, European and Israeli companies are the...



Pere Brunet, Ainhoa Ruiz Benedicto
17/11/2020

Report 46: “A Walled World, towards a Global Apartheid”

The report "A Walled World, towards a Global Apartheid", aims to analyze the walls that have been built on the borders from 1968 to 2018, as well as the different reasons and more paradigmatic cases of these policies of walled-in. The research also investigates the main companies in the military industrial and security complex, as well as others in the...