Ploughshares Monitor articles from December 2003

Ploughshares Monitor archives from December 2003

Security first: Afghanistan's security sector reform process.
December 22, 2003... Insecurity in Afghanistan has reached alarming levels in the past six months. The situation has become so dire that high-ranking government ministers have resorted to delivering cataclysmic warnings while on overseas visits, as Foreign Minister...

Canadian troops in Afghanistan.
December 22, 2003... The most recent deployment of Canadian armed forces to Afghanistan began in August when Canadian infantry troops arrived there as part of "Operation Athena," the Canadian contribution to the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). About...

New campaign to control international transfers of arms.
December 22, 2003... October 9, 2003 saw the launch of the "Control Arms" campaign. This 3-year program, a joint effort by Amnesty International, Oxfam International, and the International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA), seeks government support for an...

Statement to the first Committee of the 58th session of the General Assembly of the UN.
December 22, 2003... As the General Assembly forum entrusted with consideration of security and disarmament issues, this Committee must acknowledge that the world is as full of challenges to the non-proliferation and disarmament order as it is of manifestations of...

Navigating a New World: Canada's Global Future.
December 22, 2003... Navigating a New World: Canada's Global Future, by Lloyd Axworthy, Random House of Canada, 2003, ISBN 0-676-97463-5, 450 pp., $37.95. In Navigating a New World Lloyd Axworthy explains how Canadians can become active citizens in our world...

Will Iraqi hopes be dashed? Reflections on a visit.
December 22, 2003... As I read the daily reports about the bombings and the growing resistance in Iraq, I find it hard to believe that what so impressed me in my September visit were the images of hope. Images of hope * Two men who had left the country...

Canada and ballistic missile defence: an interception scenario.
December 22, 2003... A new Working Paper by Project Ploughshares and The Simons Centre for Peace and Disarmament on Canada and Ballistic Missile Defence offers a detailed analysis of why BMD will not bring the protection it promises, why it will undermine...

The Human Right to Peace.
December 22, 2003... The Human Right to Peace, by Douglas Roche, Novalis, Toronto, 2003, ISBN 2-89507-409-7, 271 pp., $24.95 Cdn. Senator Douglas Roche believes that people--all people--have a sacred right to peace. Moreover, he believes that peace is not only...

Making a Killing: How and Why Corporations Use Armed Force to do Business.
December 22, 2003... Making a Killing: How and Why Corporations Use Armed Force to do Business, by Madelaine Drohan, Random House Canada, Toronto, 2003, ISBN 0-679-31197-1, 384 pp., $37.95. Making a Killing looks at some of the companies that have made...

The First Committee votes on NAC resolutions.
December 22, 2003... In November, the First Committee of the UN General Assembly completed discussion and voting on 59 arms control and disarmament resolutions. The New Agenda Coalition--Brazil, Egypt, Ireland, Mexico, New Zealand, South Africa, and...

Canada's top 10 military producers.
December 22, 2003... The ten largest Canadian-based military contractors together generated more than $3.5-billion in sales during 2002. The Department of National Defence and the US Pentagon were the largest customers, but the companies and their subsidiaries were...

Ploughshares staff.(Project Ploughshares staff and local group news)
December 22, 2003... On August 26-27 Sarah Estabrooks and Ernie Regehr participated in the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Consultations with CMI Society on Issues Relating to International Security, Nuclear and Other Weapons of Mass...

Ploughshares local groups.(Project Ploughshares staff and local group news)
December 22, 2003... During the Abbotsford International Airshow (August 7-9), Ploughshares Fraser Valley joined Mennonite Central Committee BC, Langley Mennonite Fellowship, and West Abbotsford Mennonite Church in organizing the second annual Abbotsford...

The Political Economy of Armed Conflict: Beyond Greed and Grievance.
December 22, 2003... The Political Economy of Armed Conflict: Beyond Greed and Grievance, edited by Karen Ballentine and Jake Sherman, Lynne Rienner Publisher, Boulder, CO, 2003, ISBN 1-58826-197-2 HC $55.00 US, ISBN 1-58826-172-7 PB $22.50 US, 317 pp., a project...