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High ideals: VE Day, Covid and an anti-militarist future
08/05/2020
On the 75th anniversary of VE Day, we reflect on what happened to the ideas and hopes that flourished after the Second World War, and what we can learn from this for a post-COVID world.
This article was first published in Peace News.
Militarising the crisis?
04/05/2020
We need to tackle coronavirus with a strategy for health, care and solidarity. While military support is useful, there is little place for its approaches and culture during the UK’s Covid-19 response. Yet echoes of the military are starting to sound quite loudly as it seeks to maintain relevance.
Covid-19 and the UK Military
26/03/2020
What is the UK military’s involvement in the response to the Covid-19 pandemic so far?
Army dreaming
14/02/2020
The Army are exploiting adolescent vulnerabilities and utilising crude stereotypes in order to attract record numbers of young recruits. We should be concerned about the gap between the dream sold by these advertising campaigns and the reality of military life.
Book Review: Keenie Meenie: The British Mercenaries Who Got Away with War Crimes
29/01/2020
Joe Glenton reviews this explosive account of a secret group of mercenaries based on newly declassified documents.
Boris Johnson’s government and the military: a look ahead at 2020
23/12/2019
Britain is just over a week into the new government’s tenure. What this means in the long term is hard to say but critical voices will be needed. For ForcesWatch, this means questioning the government on how they will be addressing issues such as legacy legal cases against soldiers, their policy on arms sales and … Read more
#GE2019: security & defence
04/12/2019
A potted analysis of existing positions and manifesto pledges of Labour, the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats, the major nationalist parties and the Greens.
Webinar: Mobilising the crisis: Covid-19 and the UK military
11/11/2019
This webinar was recorded on 10 June 2020.
Leading critical military studies academics discuss the role and operation of the UK military in the COVID-19 crisis and, in the light of the #BlackLivesMatter protests, how militarism intersects with racism and public control at home and abroad.
Warrior Nation: Militarism, War & Resistance
03/11/2019
Planning Remembrance Day events in your school
28/10/2019
This guidance is based on five-years of research carried out by Oxford Brookes University and Brunel University London. It looks at how school leaders can approach discussing ethical themes related to conflict.
Data on military visits and activities in schools
19/10/2019
The latest information available and some quick guidance on using this data.
The British armed forces: Why raising the recruitment age would benefit everyone
A briefing (Child Soldiers International, 2019) making the case for setting 18 as the minimum age for recruitment.
More military ethos in schools
18/10/2019
Schools Week report on the government’s continuing attempts to instill more military ethos in schools.
Could you take a seat for the next generation?
17/09/2019
Our Peaceworker, Jen Harrison, writes about attending the DSEI arms fair and how arms companies target young people as future employees and supporters.
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