Ploughshares Monitor articles from December 2004

Ploughshares Monitor archives from December 2004

Canada's responsibilities on the world stage.
December 22, 2004... This material was first presented as a Brief to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance on November 3, 2004 at the Panel "Canada's Place on the World Stage," one of the pre-budget consultations with Canadians set up by the government...

Time to act.
December 22, 2004... By the time you have read this sentence, another four people will have died from poverty-related causes. Every minute, poverty kills about 34 people. That's more than 2,000 people an hour, and about 50,000 people a day--every day. I could...

Canada's arms exports in 2002.
December 22, 2004... According to the most recent government report released in November, during 2002 Canada exported $678.3-million in military goods to 68 countries. The majority of the weapons shipments went to like-minded governments, but transfers also were...

Canada and strategic ballistic missile defence: arms control and other imperatives.
December 22, 2004... This material was originally presented as a Brief to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade on November 4, 2004, as the committee began its study on disarmament issues. Canada should attend to...

A united world or a divided world? Multiethnicity, human rights, terrorism.
December 22, 2004... This statement was issued at the end of the fifth World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates in Rome, Italy on 12 November 2004. Two decades ago, the world was swept with a wave of hope. Inspired by the popular movements for peace, freedom,...

Funding for new nuclear weapons programs eliminated.
December 22, 2004... In a major victory for disarmament efforts the US Congress has cut all FY 2005 funding for two controversial nuclear weapons development programs--the earth-penetrating nuclear weapon commonly referred to as a "bunker buster," and a new...

The Horn of Africa as Common Homeland: the State and Self-Determination in the Era of Heightened Globalization.
December 22, 2004... The Horn of Africa as Common Homeland: The State and Self-Determination in the Era of Heightened Globalization by Leenco Lata, publ. by Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-88920-456-X, 232 pages, $24.95 paper. Contemporary...

Children and armed conflict 2003.
December 22, 2004... Almost three-quarters of the states at war in 2003 had populations with a high proportion of children (children under 15 made up more than one-third of the population). The vast majority of armed conflicts involve the use of child...

Focus on small arms and light weapons at the UN.
December 22, 2004... At this year's deliberations at the United Nations First Committee on Disarmament and International Security the growing number of references to small arms and light weapons (SALW) by Member States highlighted the prominence of this issue on...

SIPRI Yearbook 2004: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security.
December 22, 2004... SIPRI Yearbook 2004: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, publ. by Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-927420-7, 859 pages, 80.00 [pounds sterling]. Order forms...