Symon Hill and Archie Woodrow get to grips with a thorny and salient question.
Armed forces were abolished? Symon Hill plots a path to peace
Shell companies are aggravating some of the world’s worst conflicts, writes Steven Shaw.
We urgently need to slam the brakes on automated violence. Noel Sharkey dispels some myths about the newest arms race. Illustrations by Simon Kneebone.
Richard Swift takes aim at Sava Kiir Mayardit and Riek Machar, once friends but now foes at the pinnacle of violent South Sudanese politics.
Andrea Needham, who 20 years ago was arrested for disarming weapons bound for Indonesia, argues for bold action for peace and justice.
As UN special rapporteur on the right to a healthy environment presents his report today, Doug Weir explains why this is especially important in armed conflict.
Andrew Smith speaks to Nicholas Gilby, author, campaigner and winner of a landmark case against the British government.
There’s money to be made in crowd ‘control’, as Anna Feigenbaum discovers.
The austerity prescription fattens the creditors and punishes the innocent. Susan George laments a leadership subservient to the desires of finance.
The 'war on terror' saw the west splurge its peace dividend in a frenzy of arms spending. Check out some astonishing facts and figures...
The arms trade tends to have the government's ear. Why, wonders Dinyar Godrej, when it is so counter-productive?
Andrew Feinstein examines the corrupt networks of arms deals.
China’s aid and arms are promoting one-party governments, argues Rebecca Tinsley.
What are the West’s weapons actually for? asks Paul Rogers.
There are over 27,000 nuclear weapons in the world. Thousands are deployed on land, at sea and in the air, posing the constant threat of nuclear war and radioactive contamination.