Links related to "Causes And Costs Of War"

The Oxford Research Group Every Casualty Programme "draws on the principles of human security to develop and enhance the technical and institutional capacity, identify and consolidate the legal requirements, and build the political will to record details of every single victim of armed conflict worldwide".

Agent Orange Justice is the Australian arm of an international campaign whose objective is to force the United States government and US chemical companies take responsibility for the ongoing problems caused by the use of chemical weapons, includin dioxin, in Vietnam between 1961 and 1971.

The Lake War Memorials Forum website was launched in February 2011 to give Australians an opportunity to express their views about the proposal to build two large war memorials on the shore of Lake Burley Griffin in Canberra. This website is intended to expose this proposal to the open, democratic scrutiny that its proponents have so far evaded. Its supporters include historians, architects, and MAPW's ACT branch, which has been active in the campaign against additional war memorials for Canberra.

Article from The Age by former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser highlighting the failure of the Liberal party to learn from previous failures where we supported the U.S militarily and drawing lessons for Afghanistan.

Zero is the only option: Four Medical and Environmental Cases for the Eradication of Nuclear Weapons. This major briefing paper on the global climate and health effects of nuclear war, produced for the 2010 Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference, draws extensively from the work of climate scientists at Rutgers University and the University of Colorado at Boulder, including Alan Robock, O. B. Toon, Michael Mills, and their colleagues, who have documented the climate effects of regional war. 

Series of essays on the causes and costs of Australia's foreign wars by Ian Buckley including origins of WW1, the Gallipoli Campaign, WW2, the Cold War, Korean and Vietnam wars.  The essays 'aim to provide an easily accessible outline of Australia's diplomatic-military history that might help guide us towards a saner future.'

The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPFⁱ) is an international Non Governmental Organization (NGOⁱ) with national sections, covering all continents with an international secretariat based in Geneva, and a New York office focused on the work of the United Nations. Since its establishment in 1915, WILPFⁱ has brought together women from around the world who are united in working for peace by non-violent means, promoting political, economic and social justice for all.

Link to website of Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs. The Pugwash movement is an international movement of scientists working towards a world free of nuclear weapons and war and for social responsibility of scientists and technology. 

The Pugwash movement begain 1950s and was initiated by Lord Bertrand Russell, Albert Einstein, Sir Joseph Rotblat (the only scientist to resign on ethical grounds from the Manhattan Project) and other leading scientists from both sides of the Cold War and has continued to this day as a global movement. Pugwash were awarded the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize jointly with Sir Joseph Rotblat for their significant contribution to nuclear disarmament.

Link to Japanese for Peace website. Japanese-Australian peace association based in Melbourne.