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According to numbers from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, America accounted for 34 percent of total arms exports from 2013–17, with 98 countries buying American goods. The second-largest exporter in the world, Russia, accounted for 22 percent of weapon exports during that same ...

Organized by the Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Peace Studies and ASU's Hillel chapter, eminent historian Prof. Konrad H. Jarausch. Jarausch, the Lurcy Professor of European Civilization at UNC-Chapel Hill, will give an evening lecture entitled “Broken Lives: How Ordinary German Jews and Gentiles Experienced the ...

By SU MYAT MON | FRONTIER. YANGON – Thabyay Education Foundation will next month launch an institute to train the next generation of leaders to take part in the peace process. The Peace Leadership and Research Institute aims to promote a culture of responsible leadership and evidence-based ...

Purdue will host a peace studies conference later this month, according to a press release. The conference will focus on social justice movements promoting the environment, equality, immigration reform, labor rights and peace. The "Visiting Peace and Justice Movements in the 21st Century" conference ...

George A. Lopez, Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., Professor Emeritus of Peace Studies at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame, will receive an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Humane Letters during the St. John Fisher College, Rochester, New York, ...

The discussions kick off at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 10, with David Hooker, a core faculty member of the Kroc Institute of International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Hooker will speak on the topic of "Searching for a Reconfigured 'We the People,'" inviting audience members to ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Clinton Frederick Fink, beloved husband, caring stepfather, peace researcher, peace educator, peace activist, died on March 2, ... of the military industrial complex and the threat of a new world war, Fink committed his life to peace research, peace education and peace activism.

Lafayette was with King the morning he was shot, and he has been a leading proponent of nonviolent social change for some six decades, including with his leadership position at the University of Rhode Island's Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies. In the green room before we went on camera, ...

A New Kind of Peace Studies: The Stock Market. When Israelis invest in stocks, they are more likely to support peace negotiations, new Stanford research shows. March 27, 2018|by Edmund L. Andrews. Email. A man stands in front of an electronic board displaying market data at the Tel Aviv Scholars found a surprising ...

However, Sweden's Stockholm International Peace Research Institute said in its annually updated arms trade register that Singapore acquired two systems and 200 Aster 30 missiles, with a reported contract value of €651 million (U.S. $805 million). The think tank also reported that one system and 100 ...

Then, speeches were given by Jennifer Gallagher, a member of Moms Demand Action, Professor Dale Wimberley, a member of Coalition for Justice and Brianna Sclafani, a peace studies student. Sclafani was a freshman in high school six years ago when the Sandy Hook shooting happened in her ...

LOWELL -- Nobel Peace Prize winner Tawakkol Karman is UMass Lowell's 2018 Greeley Scholar for Peace Studies. Karman is committed to the nonviolent struggle for the right of expression, the safety of women and women's rights to fully participate in peace-keeping efforts in her home country of Yemen.

El-Sissi rose to power after he led the military overthrow of an elected Islamist president, Mohammed Morsi, whose one-year rule proved divisive. Egypt was among the five largest weapon importers in the world in 2017, data from Stockholm International Peace Research Institute showed earlier this month.

On Friday, Ri also visited the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute for an off-the-record meeting on the situation in the Korean Peninsula and northeast Asia. The independent agency listed North Korea as having 10 to 20 warheads including “operational warheads held in storage and retired ...

A new report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute details the growth in international arms sales in the last few years, with the Middle East and Asia showing the greatest increase in imports, and the US remaining the world's largest arms exporter. The new data shows that 10% more ...

The study by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), which examined the volume of international transfers of major weapons between 2008 and 2017, showed China's arms exports represented 5.7 per cent of the world's share of arms exports between 2013-17 – up by more than a ...

Nobel Peace Prize winner Tawakkol Karman, UMass Lowell's 2018 Greeley Scholar for Peace Studies, will lead programs for the campus and community during her visit to campus in April. Tweet Share Email. 03/06/2018. Contact: Nancy Cicco, 978-934-4944, Nancy_Cicco@uml.edu. LOWELL, Mass. – Nobel Peace Prize ...

In an effort to explore the relationship between psychology and conflict, the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, together with the American Psychological Association (APA) Division 48, will host the first Psychology and Peace Conference this weekend. The conference will include workshops, ...

Organized by ASU's Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Peace Studies and the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research and co-sponsored by ASU's Departments of Anthropology, Cultural, Gender and Global Studies, English, and History, the German Studies Program, ASU's Honors College, ASU's ...

UNITED NATIONS — India is the world's biggest importer of weapons, accounting for 12 percent of global purchases over the past five years because it is not able to produce enough arms to meet its requirements, according to the authoritative Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.

by Kelly Langevin. Central Connecticut's Department of Peace Studies presented the event “Israel's Devastating Siege of Gaza” that focused on what can be done about the attacks taking place on the territory and put emphasis on a topic that often goes forgotten. The event took place on April 5. Ann Wright ...

On March 24, Kennesaw State peace and conflict studies students competed against international students in the second peace studies soccer match at the Owls Nest. The soccer match, advised by Dr. Pranaya Rana, a part-time instructor of peace studies, and led by Canyon North, the elected class ...

On Thursday, April 12, Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Memorial Day), the Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies along with Appalachian State's Hillel chapter and the Temple of the High Country and will organize a public reading of the names of European Jews murdered by the Germans and their ...