This online conference will be co-hosted with the Asia-Europe People’s Forum (AEPF), as part of a wider shared strategy to put military budgets and spending priorities in both the public and political agendas. The event will be live streamed on AEPF's Facebook page.

The webinar coincides with the presentation of the book edited by GCOMS coordinator Jordi Calvo ‘Military Spending and Global Security. Humanitarian and Environmental Perspectives’, which will be published on November 26 by Routledge. The book will give context to the discussion at hand, reflecting on why people are not well served by nation-states when they continuously seek to out-compete one another in the size and destructive powers of their militaries. The webinar will also deal with the scope of military spending around the world, while explaining how militarism is linked with conflict and security threats, and how military spending further prevent us from adequately dealing with global problems such as climate change or the covid-19 pandemic.

You can find more information about the book here and further details will follow in the coming weeks.