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These infographics are also availabe in Spanish, Japanese, Catalan and French here.
Sources in these infographics include:
– SIPRI Global Military Spending Report 2022
– Reearch from the European Network Against the Arms Trade (ENAAT) and the Transnational Institute (TNI) based on figures published by the European Commission.
– UN Climate Change
Our thanks to TNI and ENAAT for their support.
Article by Quique Sánchez, GCOMS officer in Barcelona, on Gensuikyo’s April newsletter. This piece introduced the GDAMS 2021 to Gensuikyo’s followers and activists, asking them to turn their eyes especially on the link between Japanese demand for nuclear abolition and the growing military expenditure of Japan for massive purchase of US fighter jets/weapon systems and building US military bases in Okinawa.
You can read the article here
2019 Global Days of Action on Military Spending (GDAMS) have already started and will go on until May 9. This special period of actions is based on the cooperative efforts of more than 100 pacifist organizations around the world, and for the occasion we have prepared these 2 infographics using data from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). Please feel free to use them and share them so we can get the word out on the nonsense of militarization!
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The military spending infographic is also available in Spanish, French, Italian, Catalan and Finnish.
Infographic with figures for the year 2017 here.
According to new data on arms transfers published on Monday 12th by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), the volume of international transfers of major weapons in 2013-17 was 10 per cent higher than in 2008-12. This 10% is the money needed to reverse climate change and end poverty and hunger by 2030.
We launch today a new infographics on the urgent need to take action to reduce global investment on warfare and to engage for #2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The new material has been created within the framework of GDAMS 2018 (Global Days Against Military Spending), an initiative of the Global Campaign on Military Spending (GCOMS).
Reducing 10% of military assets will help saving our planet. Take action!
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This new Infographics shows recently published SIPRI data on global military spending during 2016 in a visual way.
Click on the image to download the high quality pdf version of the Infographics:
Click here to get the Spanish version (as an .jpg image), or download from here its high quality pdf version!
There are plenty of reasons to renew, once again and for the 7th year running, our call for a cut in military spending (based upon SIPRI data), so that the world can move a little closer to the human security approach that would better serve humanity.
The Global Campaign on Military Spending (GCOMS) is an international campaign promoted by the International Peace Bureau. The aim of the campaign is to press governments to invest money in the sectors of health, education, employment and climate change, rather than the military. GCOMS includes the Global Days of Action on Military Spending (GDAMS), which in its 7th edition includes over 70 different actions in more than 20 countries, as listed on the CGOMS webpage.
According to the updated 2016 military spending data, published recently by SIPRI, world military expenditure has increased in 2016 by 0.4% in real terms, and is now estimated at roughly $ 1686 billion.
Download the GCOMS second statement including updated SIPRI data.
Today (Monday 22) is the most important day of this year’s Global Days of Action on Military Spending (GDAMS), with several events taking place all across the world.
SIPRI has just published new data on military spending for the year 2023, and the figures show very strong growth in military spending, reaching $2.44 trillion, an increase of 6.8% compared to last year. The top 10 spenders have all increased their military spending, and we can also see that it is rising in all regions of the world – mainly Europe, Asia and Oceania and the Middle East – due to recent tensions and conflicts.
You can find the SIPRI fact sheet here.
For the occasion, our campaign is holding actions all across the world, including press conferences in Seoul, Manila and Sydney, and more media work in Brussels and Wellington. To strengthen the impact of this, we’re also putting together a Social Media Storm. Amid dramatic environmental and socioeconomic crises, we’re joining our voices and taking action to urge governments across the world to place their efforts into addressing the climate crisis, instead of making it worse. War Costs Us the Earth.
Together with the Transnational Institute (TNI) and the European Network Against the Arms Trade (ENAAT), we’ve prepared a series of infographics analysing military spending levels from different perspectives (globally, NATO, EU, Israel, war profiteers…). You can download them here (Twitter and Instagram formats).
It is time for us to join together and call on governments around the world to cut military spending, and to instead invest in common and human security.
Visit our GDAMS Shared Folder, where you’ll find images, infographics and posting exemples and other materials, and use today your social media (Twitter, Facebook and/or Instagram) to spread the word and draw attention to the issue.
We will be using these hashtags:
#GDAMS #WarCostsUsTheEarth
Let’s make our message go viral!
Click on the filter of your interest. You can select military spending in current US$, % of GDP or per capita. Then, click on the country of your choice (you can select several) to view the data. You can save the image by right-clicking or taking a screenshot.
Try the geopolitical filter to see the military spending of NATO, AUKUS, the European Union or the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. Again, you can select the organization of your choice to create your campaign material!
GCOMS partners are present on all five continents! Around the world, we are mobilizing to denounce the consequences of militarism and growing military spending.
We hope this tool will be useful for your campaign 🙂 Use the interactive map as you like, on social networks, demonstrations, educational events and more…!!
This interactive map has been developed thanks to the support of the Barcelona City Council (Ajuntament de Barcelona).
On May 9, Europe Day of Peace and Unity, we organised online actions to protest the militarization of Europe, together with ENAAT and the Transnational Institute (TNI) and other European friends and partners. We took action to protest military spending levels in Europe, which have increased a 13% in the last year, as well as recently aproved EU defence policies, which have pushed for a 183% increase in the EU military budget.
On Europe Day, which celebrates peace and unity, we call the EU to revert back to its initial aim: preserving and promoting peace through non-violent means and political cooperation, making war ‘not merely unthinkable but materially impossible’ (Schuman Declaration). Today however, the EU is on a very different path. From 2017 to 2022, aggregated military spending of EU countries rose by 23%, according to SIPRI. Adding UK’s military spending makes EU countries the world’s second largest military spender after the US and before China. For example, in 2017, the EU crossed a red line when for the first time in history it used its budget for military purposes, starting with half a billion € over 3 years and now exceeding 10 billion € for the period 2021-2027. In 2022 its military budget increased by 183%.
Its position in regards to the war in Ukraine is also proof of these militaristic policies: the EU has disregarded any attempt at mediation or peace negotiations, and spent at least €3.11 billion in delivering arms to Ukraine, twice as much as it has spent on humanitarian aid.
#EuropeDay marks 73 years since the Schumann declaration, which envisaged a Europe where war would be ‘not merely unthinkable but materially impossible’. Over 70 years later EU military spending is at its highest, yet we are further from peace than ever before.
As a bloc, EU member states, together with Norway and the UK are the second largest military spenders globally, after the US. Instead of investing in arms and fanning the flames of war, Europe must demilitarise public policy and prioritise peace. TNI
9 May 1950: Schuman proposed pulling coal & steel production to avoid arms race and war in Europe. Today: EU dedicates billions to fund the arms industry, develop next generation of weaponry and ramp-up ammunition production.
EU militarisation is subsidising the arms industry, exacerbating the global arms race and preparing the wars of the future. We need mutual trust, diplomacy and cooperation, not another hard power. ENAAT
To know more about EU militarisation and how it all started, read our booklet for Rosa Luxemburg, available here in EN, FR, DE, ES & IT
You can download our GDAMS infographics here.
