Ploughshares Monitor articles from June 2003

Ploughshares Monitor archives from June 2003

Canada and ballistic missile defence.
June 22, 2003... The appeal of ballistic missile defence (BMD) is obvious. What responsible government would not want to shield its people from attack by nuclear-armed missiles if such protection were available? The responsibility to protect is a paramount...

Under the Gun: The Small Arms Challenge in the Pacific.
June 22, 2003... David Capie, Victoria University Press, Wellington, 2003, ISBN 0 86473 453-0, 160 pp., paperback, NZ$39.95. To order a copy, contact the Press at PO Box 600, Wellington, New Zealand; phone: + 64 4 463 6580; fax: + 64 4 463 6581; email:...

HIV/AIDS and security.
June 22, 2003... Peter Piot, Executive Director of UNAIDS (the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS), has noted that HIV/AIDS "is devastating the ranks of the most productive members of society with an efficacy history has reserved for great armed...

Enhancing Global Governance: Towards a New Diplomacy?
June 22, 2003... ed. Andrew Cooper, John English, and Ramesh Thakur. United Nations University Press, 2002, 388 pp. ISBN 92-808-1074-X Paper US $31.95 Enhancing Global Governance analyses the means by which global governance has been promoted by innovative...

Children of the Drug Trade: A Case Study of Children in Organised Armed Violence in Rio de Janeiro.
June 22, 2003... Luke Dowdney. 2003, a publication of Viva Rio. To obtain a copy of this book, contact Viva Rio: vivario@vivario.org.br. This empirical study is based on field work that investigates child and adolescent involvement in armed confrontations...

A call to protect the Congolese people.
June 22, 2003... July 4, 2003 The Right Honourable Jean Chretien, We, speaking together as the member churches of the Canadian Council of Churches, KAIROS: Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives and Project Ploughshares, write to urge intensified...

War in Iraq.
June 22, 2003... In January 2003 we issued a statement, Prepare for Peace in Iraq, with the Canadian Council of Churches and Kairos: Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives. In rejecting the resort to war, the statement did not claim that easy solutions were...

The 2003 armed conflict report--preview.
June 22, 2003... While the international community spent much of 2002 deciding whether or not to start a new war in Iraq, 37 other armed conflicts (1) were already underway, directly affecting the lives of millions of men, women, and children in 29 countries....

The export of Canadian military goods in 2001: Canada reported a boom year for military exports during 2001. Some recipients of these arms were at war or involved in human rights violations.
June 22, 2003... The value of Canada's military exports reported by the Canadian government climbed for the fourth successive year in 2001 to a total of $592-million. (1) After adjustment for inflation, the 2001 figure was 22 per cent higher than the equivalent...

Priorities, UXO and the US in Iraq.
June 22, 2003... Since 1993, Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) has been recruiting and training individuals for the Christian Peacemaker Corps (CPC). Corps members, trained in peacemaking skills and nonviolent direct action, enter emergency situations of...

US legislators hesitate on nuclear weapons funding.
June 22, 2003... The leaked 2002 US Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) outlined several nuclear weapon options that "might provide important advantages for enhancing the nation's deterrence posture: possible modifications to existing weapons to provide additional...

Acronyms.
June 22, 2003... APFO Africa Peace Forum ASAT Anti-satellite BMD Ballistic missile defence CD Conference on Disarmament CIDA Canadian International Development Agency CPT Christian Peacemaker Teams...

The maritime helicopter project: ten years after cancelling its predecessor's order for military maritime helicopters, the federal government is expected soon to formally request proposals for the replacement of the Sea King.
June 22, 2003... Three consortia plan to submit tenders in September for the $3-billion Maritime Helicopter Project (MHP) announced by then-Defence Minister Art Eggleton in August 2000. "Team Cormorant," led by the European company Agusta-Westland and including...

Project Ploughshares staff and local group news.
June 22, 2003... Ploughshares staff In mid-January in Oxford, UK, Ken Epps represented Project Ploughshares at the annual planning meeting of the international NGO working group that is promoting the Framework Convention on International Arms Transfers...

In Memoriam.
June 22, 2003... With deep respect and gratitude, Project Ploughshares remembers four peace and justice advocates and supporters who passed away during the first half of 2003: Peter Hobson in Ottawa, Carl Ridd in Winnipeg, Floyd Howlett in Peterborough, and...