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As we mark ten years since the Arms Trade Treaty entered into force, Roy Isbister and Elizabeth Kirkham from Saferworld’s Arms Unit tell us about their experience of working on the global treaty to regulate the international arms trade.
12 December 2024As a new UK Strategic Defence Review gets underway, a series of complex interconnected crises from the Middle East to the Horn of Africa must prompt a much greater emphasis on de-escalation. Charlie Linney and Lewis Brooks propose three areas where UK Defence can contribute to de-escalation and conflict prevention.
30 October 2024In this podcast episode, Saferworld Global Partnerships Adviser Sara Torrelles speaks with Saferworld CEO Susana Klien about what it means to work in solidarity with partners as an international peacebuilding NGO (INGO). How can INGOs challenge unequal and extractive power dynamics? How can we uproot colonial structures? Would a radical rethinking of resource sharing accelerate positive change?
3 October 2024The UK has suspended 30 of the 350 currently extant licences for exports to Israel but continues to allow the most problematic of UK arms exports, components for F-35 fighter aircraft, which have been at the heart of Israel’s bombardment of Gaza.
3 September 2024With global attention turning towards the growing use (and misuse) of artificial intelligence (AI) in military technologies, Saferworld’s Charlie Linney and Xiaomin Tang take a look the challenges lying ahead for the international community as it moves towards regulation.
15 May 2024