Demilitarizing Security

Demilitarizing Security

Demilitarizing Security

“Conflicts typical of the contemporary world cannot be resolved at gunpoint. They require not a recalibration of military tools and strategies but a far-reaching commitment to demilitarization.”

Shift to a Non-Provocative Defense Posture

Shift to a Non-Provocative Defense Posture

A first step toward demilitarizing security could be non-provocative defense, which is to reconceive and re-configure training, logistics, doctrine, and weaponry so that a nation’s military is seen by its neighbors to be unsuitable for offense but clearly able to mount a credible defense of its borders.

Create a Nonviolent, Civilian-Based Defense Force

Create a Nonviolent, Civilian-Based Defense Force

Civilian-based defense deploys a powerful coercive force that does not require military action.

Phase Out Foreign Military Bases

Phase Out Foreign Military Bases

Withdrawing to an authentic defense of a nation’s borders is a key part of demilitarizing security, thus weakening the ability of the War System to create global insecurity.

Disarmament

Disarmament

Disarmament is an obvious step leading toward a world beyond war.

United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA)

United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA)

The United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) is guided by the vision of promoting global norms of disarmament and oversees efforts to deal with weapons of mass destruction and conventional arms and the arms trade.

End the Use of Militarized Drones

End the Use of Militarized Drones

The problems with drone attacks are legal, moral, and practical.

Phase Out Weapons Of Mass Destruction

Phase Out Weapons Of Mass Destruction

Weapons of mass destruction are a powerful positive feedback to the War System, strengthening its spread and ensuring that wars that do occur have the potential for planet-altering destruction.

Conventional Weapons

Conventional Weapons

The world is awash in armaments, everything from automatic weapons to battle tanks and heavy artillery. The flood of arms contributes both to the escalation of violence in wars and to the dangers of crime and terrorism.

End Invasions and Occupations

End Invasions and Occupations

The occupation of one people by another is a major threat to security and peace, resulting in structural violence that often promotes the occupied to mount various levels of attacks from “terrorist” assaults to guerrilla warfare.

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