ECAAR (UK)

This is the home page of the UK Chapter of Economists Allied for Arms Reduction (ECAAR) an organisation based in America which campaigns for disarmament and is supported by many of the world's leading economists, including Nobel laureates. There are also a number of chapters in other countries. The statement of purpose is reproduced below.

The ECAAR website contains information on the organisation and its activities as well as valuable resources. The Director is Kate Cell who is based in New York State and the Chair of the UK affiliate is Paul Dunne, who is in the School of Economics at the University of the West of England

ECAAR Review:

The ECAAR Review was published in January 2003 with contributions from Joe Stiglitz, Jurgen Brauer, Paul Collier, Neil Cooper and E. Wayne Nafziger among others

ECAAR (UK) Forthhcoming Conferences:

Ninth Annual Conference on Economics and Security June 2005, University of the West of England, Bristol.

ECAAR (UK) Conferences:

Eighth Annual Conference on Economics and Security 24-26^thJune 2004, University of the West of England, Bristol.
Seventh Annual Conference on Economics and Security 26-28^thJune 2003, University of the West of England, Bristol.
Sixth Annual Middlesex Conference on Economics and Security 21-22^thJune 2002, Middlesex University Business School, The Burroughs, Hendon, London.
"Offsets and Economic Development" Cape Town 25-27^th September 2002
Fifth Annual Middlesex Conference on Economics and Security 15-16^thJune 2001, Middlesex University Business School, The Burroughs, Hendon, London.
Held with: The Peace Science Society Conference on 13-14^th June 2001 at Middlesex.
Conference on Arms, Conflict, Security and Development 16-17^th June 2000, Middlesex University Business School, The Burroughs, Hendon, London.
Conference on "The Arms Trade, Security and Conflict", June 11-12th 1999 at Middlesex University Business School.
Conference on The Economics of Military Expenditures in Developing and Emerging Economies   13-14^th March 1998 at Middlesex University Business School.
The UK Chapter of ECAAR was launched on 19th September 1997 at a conference on the Globalisation of European Military Industry and the Arms Trade at Middlesex University Business School.

Annual Essay Competition: Details on the Isaac Roet Prize organised by ECAAR-EVV in Netherlands and Belgium from the ECAAR (US) website here

Resources:

Applied Research in Economics Group website
ECAAR US website
Defence and Peace Economics Related Links on the Web

More Information:

For more information about ECAAR(UK) Please Contact  Paul Dunne

Joining ECAAR:

If you would like to join ECAAR please visit ECAAR(US) by clicking here. 

STATEMENT OF PURPOSE OF ECAAR:

Economists Allied for Arms Reduction seeks to promote objective economic analysis

and appropriate action on global issues relating to peace, security and the world

economy.

We note the high cost of war to the lives of those involved, directly and indirectly,

and the increasing risk that the present military-dependent, competitive global

security system will fuel uncontrollable conflicts between and within states. We

support and work for policies and institutions so that change within states can be

achieved through peaceful democratic processes and so that international

disputes can be managed without war. We support the creation of systems by

which international disputes can be solved through negotiation, arbitration and

judicial proceedings through an enhanced United Nations and other multinational

institutions that will also address common global environmental needs while

avoiding waste and enhancing international economic security.

We seek opportunities to undertake both general and specific analyses that can

contribute to clear thinking on the relative value of alternative policies and

expenditures, especially when there are options that can reduce dependence on

military power.

We also seek to define and promote a concept of security which takes full

account of the power and influence that comes from educated, economically

sound nations, and from international systems that would be fully developed and

creatively used for the peaceful settlement of disputes.

In the past, economists have tended to regard war as an external disruption of

the normal peaceful course of events. Yet war and large military budgets have

reduced human welfare and harmed the environment far more than inflation,

business cycles, and many other factors that economists regard as the business

of their profession. ECAAR encourages economists to apply the tools of economic

analysis to questions of war, security, and peace.

 ECAAR publish the ECAAR Review, a newsletter and a journal Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy. 

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