07/03/2023 | News
Media
27/02/2023 | News
IPB Summary of the demonstrations and actions on the one-year anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine
26/02/2023 | News
GDAMS 2023 will take place from April 13 to May 9. Save the dates!
26/02/2023 | News | Statements
IPB Call to Action – On the First Anniversary of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine: Let’s Show That There Are Peaceful Alternatives to War
19/02/2023 | News
Iraq War Protests +20 – Lessons from past peace movements. Actions towards a peaceful future
27/12/2022 | News
‘Military Security VS Human Security’ a new sketch challenging official discourses around defence and security.
26/12/2022 | News
Spanish military budget sees a massive increase in 2023 and overcomes the 2% GDP NATO target.
14/12/2022 | News | Statements
IPB Christmas Peace Appeal
11/12/2022 | News
Italian military expenditure to rise in 2023
11/12/2022 | News
New Reports Show the Extent of Military Pollution on our Planet
28/11/2022 |
The Annual Conference of Centre Delàs brings together a hundred people to reflect and debate on alternatives to hegemonic security.
14/11/2022 | News
New report: Climate Collateral
07/11/2022 | News | Statements
Open Letters to the UNFCCC & The Green Climate Fund on military spending and climate finance
04/11/2022 | News
Live from COP27: Climate Change, Militarism, and Justice
03/11/2022 | News
Conference: “Another security is possible and urgent. New scenarios for building peace from the margins: the role of cities and civil society”
26/10/2022 | News
New Report & Infographic on ‘Transnationals, Warmongering and Climate Emergency’
20/10/2022 | News
60 Years of the Cuban Missile Crisis – A message by Noam Chomsky
08/09/2022 | News
Italy races to rearmament even after its Parliament’s dissolution
02/09/2022 | News
GDAMS 2022 Report
26/07/2022 | News
New Report: “NATO, building global insecurity”
13/07/2022 | News
Madrid Peace Summit 2022: Defund War, Disband NATO
22/06/2022 | News
24 Hour Peace Wave: No to Militarization – Yes to Cooperation
20/06/2022 |
New ICAN report: ‘Squandered: 2021 Global Nuclear Weapons Spending’
14/06/2022 | News
Peace Summit 2022: NO TO NATO
02/06/2022 | News | Statements
Press Release: EuroSatory exhibition
23/05/2022 |
Military spending increases again: Time to #BudgetForPeace
09/05/2022 | News
Infographic ‘The militarization of Europe’
09/05/2022 | News | Statements
ENAAT & GCOMS Statement: The EU at a crossroads: choosing peace or militarizing?
09/05/2022 | News | Statements
Media Release: Indo-Pacific Expo exposes Australian Government hypocrisy
05/05/2022 | News
World Military Spending · 2021 biggest spenders
28/04/2022 |
Peace Boat Statement on LDP Security Proposal
27/04/2022 | News
#GivePeaceABudget Online Campaign
26/04/2022 |
Berlin Press Conference ‘SIPRI Statistics on global arms spending 2021’
26/04/2022 | News
Seoul Press Conference ‘Stop the arms race, Give peace a chance’
26/04/2022 | News | Statements
Aotearoa Press Release
25/04/2022 | News
Barcelona Press Conference ‘Give Peace A Budget’
21/04/2022 |
Common Security Report 2022 – For Our Shared Future
13/04/2022 | News | Statements
GDAMS 2022 Appeal · Give Peace a Budget
12/04/2022 | News
Launch Event “Common security 2022”
08/04/2022 | News
GDAMS 2022 Launch Event: The State of Disarmament
30/03/2022 | News
GDAMS 2022: April 13 to May 12
28/03/2022 |
Ukraine Negotiations: No Fly Zone, Nukes, Neutrality, and Disarmament
25/03/2022 | News
Start of a New Cold War? U.S. Hawks “Want to Jack up the Military Budget and Use Ukraine as an Excuse”
24/03/2022 |
Reducing UK Carbon Emissions vs. UK Military Spending
18/02/2022 | News
Militarism Cannot Prevent War: An urgent call for de-escalation, demilitarisation, and disarmament in relation to Ukraine and beyond
16/02/2022 | News
An open letter to the New Zealand Government from climate justice and peace groups
15/12/2021 | News
Spain’s real military expenditure for 2022
14/12/2021 | News
The 50 Nobelists’ appeal: spend less on the military, more on human welfare!
25/11/2021 | News
In 2022 Italian military spending will exceed 25 billion, more than 8.2 billion for new weapons (+13.8%)
24/11/2021 | News
Bernie Sanders on US military spending
15/11/2021 | News
The Excuse of Job Creation in Military Investments
09/11/2021 | News
Report: Climate Crisis, Armed Forces and Environmental Peace
03/11/2021 | News
‘Militarism Fuels Climate Crisis’ a Campaigner’s Guide
19/10/2021 | News | Statements
Barcelona’s World Peace Congress concludes with successful participation
12/10/2021 | News
GCOMS Workshop at the IPB World Peace Congress in Barcelona
30/09/2021 | News
GDAMS 2021 Report
28/09/2021 | News
Webinar: The Rise of Military Spending and Weaponization of the Global South under the Pandemic
08/09/2021 | News
IPB Brochure: Move The Money From Military To Social Purposes
30/06/2021 | News
Webinar Report: Voices of the International Peace Movement
29/06/2021 | News | Statements
Petition: Stop Excluding Military Pollution from Climate Agreements
21/06/2021 | News
Webinar Report: Dissolution of NATO
18/06/2021 | News
11 Things we should consider about Global Military Spending – IPB & Peacemomo Brochure
10/06/2021 | News
PREPARATORY CONFERENCE: VOICES OF THE INTERNATIONAL PEACE MOVEMENT
08/06/2021 | News
NO TO NATO COUNTER-SUMMIT 2021
28/05/2021 | News
IPB Webinar: Excessive Military Spending in Africa
27/05/2021 |
IPB – GDAMS final Statement
18/05/2021 | News
2021 DMZ forum Peace Movement Session Disarmament and Human Security
12/05/2021 | News
GCOMS Workshop at the AEPF (Asia Europe People’s Forum) · May 17
04/05/2021 | News
FOR A SAFER AND MORE RESILIENT WORLD, PUT PEOPLE BEFORE RUNAWAY MILITARY SPENDING
03/05/2021 | News
Human Security: More Hospitals, Less Tanks
27/04/2021 | News
New GDAMS infographic
27/04/2021 | News
Organizations in the US Condemn United States’ Ranking in Global Military Spending
27/04/2021 | News | Statements
April 26 Action by Korean GCOMS partners
26/04/2021 | News | Statements
IPB Statement on the Release of SIPRI’s Military Expenditure Data for 2020
26/04/2021 | News
US-China Cold War Could Lead to a More Dangerous Nuclear Stand-off – Joseph Gerson
26/04/2021 | News
Campaign Against Arms Trade – UK Military Spending: Speak out in your local media
26/04/2021 | News | Statements
April 26 PR: over 190 organizations urge governments to reduce military spending.
23/04/2021 | News
Building Back Better Means a Lower Pentagon Budget
16/04/2021 | News
Webinar: Gastos Militares para Gastos Sociales (in Spanish)
15/04/2021 | News | Statements
UNODA High Representative GDAMS Statement
10/04/2021 | News
Investing in Human Security: How Reducing Military Spending Can Ensure Gender-Equal and Safe Communities
01/04/2021 | News | Statements
GDAMS Appeal: Reduce Military Spending, Defend People and the Planet
01/04/2021 | News
Updated Military Spending Map
25/03/2021 | News
Demilitarize the Budget! Budget Advocacy Training
04/03/2021 | News
IPB Launches World Peace Congress Pages
03/03/2021 | News
UK Military Budget Briefing: Follow up
24/02/2021 | News
Report: Militarism and Environmental Crisis: A Necessary Reflection
10/02/2021 | News
PyeongChang Peace Forum Briefing
08/02/2021 | News
Environmental crisis, priorities and military spending
05/02/2021 | News
UK Military Budget Briefing – 22nd February
01/02/2021 | News
GCOMS at the PyeongChang Peace Forum
28/01/2021 | News | Statements
Time for a Pandemic Pivot
26/01/2021 | News
Briefing: GCOMS at the World Social Forum
18/01/2021 | News
GCOMS at the World Social Forum
11/01/2021 | News
“Disarmament Instead of Rearmament”: The Germany-wide Day of Action.
20/12/2020 | News
Italian peace activists demand a moratorium on new weapons’ expenditure in 2021
17/12/2020 | News
Critical Analysis of the 2021 Spanish Defense Budget.
07/12/2020 | News
More on our webinar on Military Spending last Thursday.
01/12/2020 | News
#UKDefundWar ‘Twitterstorm’ by GCOMS-UK Coalition
26/11/2020 | News
Our book ‘Military spending and global security’ is now available at Routledge
25/11/2020 | News
GCOMS at a ‘Leading by Example’ Webinar
03/11/2020 | News
GCOMS Webinar on Military Spending and Global (In)Security
28/10/2020 | News | Statements
Abrüsten statt Aufrüsten (Disarm instead of investing in arms) – a new policy of détente now!
28/10/2020 | News | Statements
‘Health or Weapons’: 60 Spanish Peace and CSOs demand a reorientation of military spending to the Spanish Government.
24/10/2020 | News
New report on military spending: ‘In search of enemies’
24/10/2020 | News | Statements
IPB Statement on the 50th TPNW Ratification
07/10/2020 | News
GDAMS 2020 Final Report
27/09/2020 | News
Burning and Bombing: Military Expenditures, Military Emissions and the Climate Emergency
02/07/2020 | News
Why Eurosatory should be closed…
01/07/2020 | News | Statements
Open Letter on COVID-19 and Humanitarian Disarmament
01/07/2020 | News
IPB and GCOMS support the Peace Wave, August 6-9, 2020
17/06/2020 | Statements
IPB Statement of Solidarity with the Poor People’s Assembly and Moral March on Washington
11/06/2020 | News
Movement for Black Lives: Invest-Divest
11/06/2020 | News
Webinar “Arms waste in times of crisis” and presentation of the latest report of the Centre Delàs
03/06/2020 | Statements
Statement by Le Mouvement de la Paix on military spending
24/05/2020 | Statements
237 women leaders endorse appeal for human security for public health, peace and sustainable development
22/05/2020 | News | Statements
Colombia sets an example by shifting military spending towards healthcare.
18/05/2020 | News | Statements
IPAN Statement: A People’s Call for Healthcare not Warfare.
12/05/2020 | News
GDAMS 2020 is over, but our work for demilitarization isn’t!
11/05/2020 | Statements
Statement by Escuelas de Paz
10/05/2020 | News | Statements
Mother’s Day Call for Healthcare for All – WILPF U.S.
08/05/2020 | News | Statements
Europe Day Statement GDAMS-ENAAT
07/05/2020 | Statements
Statement of 9 basque organizations in support of GDAMS (in Spanish)
05/05/2020 |
COVID-19: Divest, Demilitarise, and Disarm
01/05/2020 | News
As Global Military Spending Hits Nearly $2 Trillion, These Weapons Are Useless Against Biggest Threats We Face
30/04/2020 | News
UNODA Occasional Papers No. 35 ‘Rethinking Unconstrained Military Spending’
27/04/2020 | News
Redefining safety – Greenpeace
27/04/2020 | News | Statements
Press briefing by ASFC & partners
27/04/2020 | Statements
Joint Statement: U.S. organizations react to global military spending report
27/04/2020 | Statements
IPB Statement: Reaction to the Newest SIPRI Figures
27/04/2020 | Statements
PSPD: Reduce Military Spending to deal with the Climate Crisis and COVID-19
27/04/2020 | News | Statements
Open letter on military spending and the Covid 19 pandemic
27/04/2020 | News
World military spending surges to new heights – CAAT
15/04/2020 | News | Statements
UNODA statement in support of GDAMS 2020
15/04/2020 | News
GDAMS Healthcare Not Warfare Infographic
10/04/2020 | News | Statements
GDAMS 2020 STATEMENT: HEALTHCARE NOT WARFARE
10/04/2020 | Statements
UNODA Statement on Covid-19
06/04/2020 | News
Gorbachev’s response to Covid-19
02/04/2020 | News | Statements
IPB calls on world leaders to dramatically reduce military spending in favour of health care and social needs
27/03/2020 | News
Upgrade of Tindal RAAF Base: Australia funds the US military and forgets bushfire victims and climate change
25/03/2020 | News
The Bushfires in Australia and Military Spending
24/03/2020 | News
2nd U.S. briefing call on GDAMS
23/03/2020 | News | Statements
IPB Statement: Call to the G20 to Invest in Healthcare Instead of Militarization
23/03/2020 | News
Pentagon Spending: A Primer
13/03/2020 | News
U.S. Briefing calls on Global Days of Action on Military Spending (GDAMS).
10/03/2020 | News
A Worldwide Demand to Cut Military Spending – by Ruth Benn
27/02/2020 | News
Our 2020 slogan: “Military Spending Costs Us The Earth”
18/02/2020 | News
GCOMS at the PyeongChang Peace Forum 2020
21/01/2020 | News
Climate change and militarism
16/01/2020 | News
Jeju Island: further militarization of the China Sea?
10/01/2020 | News
No to Disastrous War With Iran
09/01/2020 | News
A different kind of life is possible, by Bruce Kent
06/01/2020 | News
GCOMS at the WRI magazine
10/12/2019 | News
The carbon boot-print
09/12/2019 | News
GCOMS at the European Parliament
04/12/2019 | News | Statements
Open Letter Against Expodefensa
15/11/2019 | News
Defence & Security workshop at the EU Parliament
04/11/2019 | News
The Chimney and the Cloud
14/10/2019 | Statements
IPB Statement: No to war against Kurds
08/10/2019 | Statements
Statement on Common Security by the Asia Europe People’s Forum
02/09/2019 | News | Statements
GCOMS joins civil society letter to new Euro-parliamentarians: the EU peace project is under threat
08/08/2019 | Statements
Joint Statement of US – Russian NGOs, Movements and Campaigns
01/07/2019 | News
GDAMS 2019 Final Report
14/06/2019 | News
What’s the European Defence Fund?
20/05/2019 | Statements
IPB Statement – No War Against Iran
07/05/2019 | Statements
GDAMS Final Statement 2019
30/04/2019 | News
Press Conferences on April 29 in Berlin, Barcelona, Seoul and Sydney
25/04/2019 | News | Statements
Statement by UNODA in support of GDAMS
16/04/2019 | News
What security, whose security? Military security is not neutral
16/04/2019 | News
GCOMS at the Move the Nuclear Weapons Money International Conference in Basel
15/04/2019 | News
New infographics for GDAMS 2019
05/04/2019 | News
Our interactive map is up and running!
29/03/2019 | News
GCOMS at the AEPF Conference on Universal Protection and Labour in Nepal
22/03/2019 | News
The Selfie Campaign 2019
15/03/2019 | News
Trump’s new budget: at the expense of people
07/03/2019 | News
Germany under huge pressure to lift the embargo on Saudi Arabia
28/02/2019 | News
Sharp rise in US attacks on Somalia
22/02/2019 | Statements
The GCOMS 2019 Statement
20/02/2019 | News
The U.S. budget on nuclear weapons keeps rising
14/02/2019 | News
Not just Afghanistan: what military missions abroad cost to Italian people
07/02/2019 | News
GDAMS 2019: From April 13 to May 9
31/01/2019 | News
Europe should stop financing war and exporting weapons
25/01/2019 | News
The GCOMS 2019 campaign has started!
17/01/2019 | News
European public money for the military industry
10/01/2019 | News
France should commit to nuclear disarmament, according to 76% of French people
03/01/2019 | News
Where USA Tax Money Really Goes
28/12/2018 | News
Saudi Arabia was the third largest military spender in the world in 2017
21/12/2018 | News
IPB Interoffice meeting in Barcelona
15/12/2018 | News
Let us disarm our state budgets
03/12/2018 | News
The Cut Milex Campaign 2018 has started!
29/11/2018 | News
Climate Change and Military Spending
22/11/2018 | News
IPB calls to Defend the INF treaty
15/11/2018 | News
Pentagon Militarizes the Economy in the Name of Defense
08/11/2018 | News
UK should scrap Trident
30/10/2018 | News
UN Chief announces Budget deficit of 140 million dollars, which is the cost of one Trident missile
22/10/2018 | News
Spain’s Military Budget Continues to Grow
18/10/2018 | News
GCOMS at the Asia Europe People’s Forum
14/09/2018 | News
No Binding Agreement at the Convention on Conventional Arms
29/08/2018 | News
The 2018 Hiroshima Peace Declaration
31/07/2018 | News
Oil Price shocks and military expenditure
18/07/2018 | News
134 actions in 26 countries! GDAMS 2018 Report is now available
13/07/2018 | Statements
Statement on NATO summit
09/05/2018 | News
Noam Chomsky: Sean MacBride Peace Prize 2018
03/05/2018 | News
Final GDAMS Press Conferences and Press Releases
02/05/2018 | News
Worldwide presentation of the final 2018 GDAMS Statement
26/04/2018 | News
EU MONEY for military research – Sign the Pledge!
18/04/2018 | News
We are acting to reduce military assets!
14/04/2018 | News
GDAMS Starts Today!
10/04/2018 | News
New Zealand proposal of Firearm Guidelines for Schools
05/04/2018 | News
Trump’s Massive Budget Boosts the Military
27/03/2018 | News
The world’s 100 largest arms-producers
13/03/2018 | News
New Infographics on the need to reduce Military Expenditure
01/03/2018 | News
New Zealand has a new Minister for Disarmament and Arms Control
01/03/2018 | News
The GCOMS Handbook is now available
23/02/2018 | News
World day of social justice: the need to redirect military spending
22/02/2018 | Statements
The GCOMS 2018 Statement
15/02/2018 | News
The Davos Forum and military spending
06/02/2018 | News
GCOMS 2018 has started!
01/02/2018 | News
Presentation of the Report on Italian Milex
25/01/2018 | News
European exports and Dual-use Regulations for cyber-surveillance
18/01/2018 | News
Ten Companies Dominate the Global Arms Trade
09/01/2018 | News
New analysis of arms exports from the European Union to countries in conflict
31/12/2017 | News
Become a GCOMS partner!
19/12/2017 | News
The UK Military Budget
14/12/2017 | News
Jeremy Corbyn on Military Spending and Peace Building
12/12/2017 | News
Corruption at Nigeria’s Ministry of Defence
30/11/2017 | News
Appeal from German Society: Disarmament Instead of Armament
21/11/2017 | News
Four Days for Peace
21/11/2017 | News
We don’t want any public European money going to the arms industry
12/11/2017 | News
The Impact of Climate Change on Peace: the Great Forgotten Issue
09/11/2017 | News
The People’s Budget
07/11/2017 | News
New documents for campaigners
30/10/2017 | News
Transparency in military spending
24/10/2017 | News
New Report on the 2017 Spanish Military Budget
16/10/2017 | News
Four days for peace
10/10/2017 | News
ICAN receives the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize
05/10/2017 | News
The Cut Milex Campaign starts now
26/09/2017 | News
Strategic Milex debate in Spanish Parliament
22/09/2017 | News
New video on Italian Military Spending
21/09/2017 | News
The GCOMS campaign is visiting the Spanish Congress to discuss military spending
21/09/2017 | News
Together for Peace: Respect, Safety and Dignity for All
19/09/2017 | News
GCOMS meeting and final report on GDAMS 2017
07/09/2017 | News
IPB unveils the winners of Séan MacBride Peace Prize 2017
05/09/2017 | News
Strategy Meeting on GCOMS
18/07/2017 | News
Ban treaty opens the door to global nuclear divestment campaign
15/06/2017 | News
International Women’s Day for Disarmament and Peace
15/06/2017 | News
Peace Boat GDAMS 2017 Report
30/05/2017 | News
Conversation with Noam Chomsky
30/04/2017 | News
New Infographics showing world military spending in 2016
27/04/2017 | News
Kazakhstan calls for a global reduction in military spending
24/04/2017 | News
GCOMS Second Statement on the occasion of GDAMS 2017
20/04/2017 | News
Tax Day Rally in Cambridge, MA
18/04/2017 | Statements
GDAMS Statement 18-28 April 2017
09/04/2017 | News
Seminar on Nuclear-Free World at Dhaka University
08/04/2017 | News
Nairobi meeting on Military Spending
04/04/2017 | News
2017 Global Days of Action on Military Spending
23/03/2017 | News
Move Nuclear Weapons Money
20/03/2017 | Statements
GCOMS Statement on the occasion of the 2017 Global Days of Action on Military Spending 18-28 April
20/03/2017 | News
GDAMS 2017 on Thunderclap
20/03/2017 | News
GCOMS Statement 2017
20/03/2017 | News
GDAMS Selfie Campaign
16/03/2017 | News
New report from the Institute for Economics and Peace: Measuring Peacebuilding Cost-Effectiveness
14/03/2017 | News
New Social Media Package
10/03/2017 | News
Days of Action April 2018
09/03/2017 | News
Voice of Women for Peace ask for a reduction in Canadian Military Spending
09/03/2017 | News
China wants to increase its military budget up to 7%
07/03/2017 | News
East Africa Disarmament Congress
07/03/2017 | News
New Increase in U.S. Military Budget
23/02/2017 | News
New SIPRI Data on International Arms Transfers and Trends
16/02/2017 | News
Presentation of the 1st Italian report on Military Expenditures
13/10/2016 | News
Major new IPS report: military vs climate spending
12/10/2016 | News
IPB Declaration on Demilitarisation and Youth
11/10/2016 | News
IPB publishes its Action Agenda for the coming years
10/10/2016 | News
IPB’s Berlin Congress: “Missile” event outside the Reichstag – video
06/10/2016 | News
IPB’s Berlin Congress: A Huge Success!
30/08/2016 | Statements
Disarmament for Sustainable Human Development
04/08/2016 | News
On Military Spending and National Defense: Interview with William Hartung
02/08/2016 | News
IPB sessions at the World Social Forum, Montreal, August 11-12
08/06/2016 | News
GDAMS 2016 final report – Actions on military spending
18/05/2016 | News
World Humanitarian Summit – IPB proposal
12/05/2016 | News
12 May 2016: Trident replacement cost rises to ‘staggering’ £205 billion
18/04/2016 | Statements
Brussels Statement on Military Spending
06/04/2016 | Statements
High Representative’s Statement for Global Day of Action on Military Spending
05/04/2016 | Statements
Welfare or warfare? Global military spending rises, according to SIPRI data
31/03/2016 | Statements