I have always believed that beyond being an art, language is also a science. It is a tool of transformation, and as far as decolonisation is concerned, language is a necessary tool.
Toyin Falola, Nigerian historian
About the project
The growing global nuclear and military spending against the pandemic background exhibiting the deepening strategic instability. However, most of the time media attention rests solely on the political games amongst international actors and relatively ignores the other significant factors such as armament and disarmament efforts which will control the future direction of global geopolitical tension. Therefore this research group is established in order to assure public understanding regarding armament and disarmament affairs in the world. The strategic talks belong to people, let us take an initiative to create a world where the public is part of the hard security.
This research team will work on contributing to the public understanding regarding armament and disarmament through the newly designed framework called D-ARM. Research tasks covered the series of articles on global military spending and non-proliferation affairs all the way to producing background research on disarmament challenges and facts among each geographical area.
Our Team
Paddy Siyanga Knudsen
Mickey Moyo
Domiziana Palumbo
Hiba Bouazza
Marine Baba-You Ourahli
Ariel Karn
Akasha Usmani
Sharath Kumar Kolipaka
The D-ARMS Framework
D โ (Direct) Disarmament and Arms control efforts
For instance, confidence-building measures, verification regime, defense cooperation (on arms control), non-proliferation efforts/agreements, etc.
A โ Acquisition
- Arms acquisition affairs
- Who is acquiring what? Why? How? Whatโs the effect?
R โ (Arms/Defense) Research and Development
- Who is developing what? And its implication
- Eg. Missiles or Hypersonic aircraft/submarines
M โ (Arms) Mobility and Military Spending
- The mobility of arms such as SALWs/LAWsย
- Military spending on weapons
S โ Security Cooperation
- traditional security cooperation/defence cooperationย
- Whoโs cooperating with whom? What are the (prospecting) impact/ implication?ย
- Military stimulation cooperationย
The research team will cover the area under the framework the Research Lead, Ariel Karn, designed called the D-ARMS framework.
News & Events
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Continue Reading Being a Feminist Activist in Turkey: The Voices to be Silenced
Repository
The Repository is a self-organized platform where experts and authors as well as their avid followers can populate an open library on armament across a range of thematic areas.
Example of books
Example of research articles
Example of audio-visuals
Example of artistic work