Ploughshares Monitor articles from March 1999

Ploughshares Monitor archives from March 1999

Time to increase security spending: continuing high levels of armed conflict stem from the absence of social and economic conditions that are able to sustain stability and allow for the building of peace.
March 1, 1999... The pursuit of "human security" requires increased public investment aimed at producing the political, social, and economic conditions conducive to sustainable peace and security. In the weeks before Finance Minister Paul Martin tabled his...

Armed conflicts in 1998.
March 1, 1999... The number of conflicts declined in 1998, but war continues to plague almost one out of every six countries. For the third year in a row there has been a reduction in the number of armed conflicts (1) worldwide. While that still leaves...

Search for a lasting resolution of the Ethiopia/Eritrea conflict.
March 1, 1999... Attempts to resolve the Ethiopia/Eritrea conflict need to address root causes, using a holistic approach that encompasses the entire Horn of Africa region. Everything must be done to end the hostilities, but thinking about a more lasting and...

Canada fails to report US sales to UN arms register.
March 1, 1999... Despite repeated Canadian endorsement of the UN Register of Conventional Arms, data on equipment transfers to the US has been omitted from annual Canadian submissions to the UN Register since at least 1995. From press and other unofficial...

Maritime helicopter project: there is little disagreement that the Sea Kings need replacing.
March 1, 1999... The Canadian Department of National Defence is expected soon to advance plans to replace Canada's Sea King maritime helicopters, likely by announcing a request for proposals for new helicopters from international suppliers. There is little...

Never again - nuclear war: toward a peaceful world free of nuclear weapons.
March 1, 1999... An Exhibition from Hiroshima and Nagasaki This 17-minute video is centred around a 1997 Toronto exhibition of pictures and artifacts from the Hiroshima Peace Park Museum in Japan. Sponsored by the Defence Research & Education Centre, the...

MPs call for muclear disarmament.
March 1, 1999... In December the House of Commons' Foreign Affairs Committee released a report calling for significant changes in Canada's nuclear weapons policies. The Committee's recommendations address both the need to begin a real nuclear abolition process...

Mercenary group claims agricultural subsidies (Sandline International).
March 1, 1999... In a legal dispute with the government of Papua New Guinea, a British-based mercenary organization is claiming millions of dollars marked for agricultural and training programs in the South Pacific nation. In early March, Sandline International...

Recommendations of the SCFAIT report.
March 1, 1999... RECOMMENDATION 1 The Committee recommends that the Government of Canada adopt the following fundamental principle to guide its nuclear non-proliferation, arms control and disarmament policy, within an over-arching framework encompassing...

Mothers' Day at the War Show.
March 1, 1999... Narrated by Marion Dewar Produced by the Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade, this 28-minute video focuses on the 1997 Ottawa Air Show, which was held on Mother's Day, an occasion that originated as a repudiation of war and a call by...

Canada and ballistic missile defence: dilemmas and options.
March 1, 1999... Should Canada participate in a North American missile defence system? Recent US steps toward the deployment of such a system have placed the issue on Canada's agenda, but the debate needs to be framed more broadly. So far, the ballistic...

Nuclear risk reduction strategy for NATO.
March 1, 1999... There is no conventional military threat to NATO or to Eastern Europe. Nevertheless, thousands of nuclear weapons on hair trigger alert remain poised to destroy the industrialized world in an hour. In this article, excerpted from a longer...

Halt NATO bombing.
March 1, 1999... The NATO bombing of Yugoslavia has failed to achieve its stated goals: to "prevent more human suffering and more repression and violence against the civilian population of Kosovo," and to compel Serbia to accept the Rambouillet plan as the...