Webinar: Arms Sales to Confict Zones
Start: 2021-03-03 11:00:00 UTC Eastern Standard Time (US & Canada) (GMT-05:00)
End: 2021-03-03 12:30:00 UTC Eastern Standard Time (US & Canada) (GMT-05:00)
This is a virtual event
Join in a discussion for the launch of " Business as Usual: How major
weapons exporters arm the world’s conflicts" -- the initial report at
the midpoint of a two-year project examining defense industries, foreign
policy and armed conflict.
Over the past decades, international
efforts have increasingly sought to control arms exports to countries
where conflicts are taking place, especially where such conflicts
involve human rights abuses and violations of international humanitarian
law (IHL). This first report looks at the top 11 arms exporters,
examining whether export control measures – including international
treaties, national legislation and policy, and the EU Common Position –
correspond to actual, empirical, changes in practice on the part of arms
suppliers.
Panelists
• Sam Perlo-Freeman, Research Coordinator, Campaign Against Arms Trade and Fellow, World Peace Foundation
• Dan Mahanty, Director, US Program, Center for Civilians in Conflict (CIVIC)
• Molly Mulready, Lawyer, formerly of the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office
• Emma Soubrier, Visiting Scholar, Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington
• Nathan Toronto, Commissioning Editor, Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center (moderator)
This
event is hosted by the Forum on the Arms Trade and sponsored by the
World Peace Foundation, the Program on Civil-Military Relations in Arab
States at the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center, and the
Center for Responsive Politics.
This report is part of a research
program, support for which was provided in part by a grant from the
Carnegie Corporation of New York.