A full list of STWR’s publications as well as related news, articles and blogs can be found below.
With Coronavirus spreading, time to repurpose the arms industry to meet human need
Blog / 26th June 2020What if more of the arms and defense sector moved into manufacturing health and other products permanently? Surely this is the time for a focus on what peace and security really mean for us all, writes Martin Butcher for Oxfam International.
Global poverty: coronavirus could drive it up for the first time since the 1990s
Article / 22nd June 2020The global pandemic could push half a billion people into deeper poverty on some counts and lead to a new COVID-19 apartheid era, warn Andy Sumner, Christopher Hoy and Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez in The Conversation.
The UK is taking aid back to its colonial roots
Blog / 22nd June 2020The government’s decision to scrap the Department for International Development will set back efforts to fix global inequalities by decades, writes Martin Drewry for the New Internationalist.
'Unimaginable double emergency': Record high of nearly 80 million people forcibly displaced worldwide amid pandemic
News / 19th June 2020“These numbers should serve as a wake-up call to the international community on the human cost of war, and the social and economic implications exacerbated by Covid-19.” By Jessica Corbett for Common Dreams.
World protests show rising outrage and mounting discontent
Article / 13th June 2020Despite the coronvirus pandemic, we are experiencing a continuation of rising outrage and street protests throughout the world. Governments need to listen to the demands from citizens legitimately protesting the denial of social, economic and civil rights, write Isabel Ortiz, Sara Burke and Hernan Cortes Saenz for IPS news.