Peacebuilding, Defence and Military
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Independence too big a price for AUKUS fantasy
And those who accept the reality of our loss of sovereign agency but actually applaud it as a price worth paying for our protection – such as Beazley, Dibb and Pezzullo – seem to have lost not only any sense of national pride, but of Australia’s national interest.
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Time for Australia to end support for nuclear weapons
Dr Sue Wareham OAM. President of the Medical Association for Prevention of War (Australia), and a former board member of ICAN Australia, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, 2 September, 2024. Introduction Nuclear weapons remain an existential threat to civilisation. Australia’s ongoing support for a role for these weapons in our “defence”, and our…
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Security Through Sustainable Peace: Australian International Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding
There is a globalised imperative towards security through increasing efforts to prevent violent conflicts and support positive peace; and recognition that this is achieved through political rather than military means. It is well established that violent conflict is one of the most serious impediments to human, social and …
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Nuclear deterrence is the existential threat, not the nuclear ban treaty
Hughes et al. Nuclear deterrence is a myth. Nuclear deterrence involves a nation state maintaining a believable threat of retaliation to deter an adversary’s attack.
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The Australia Peacebuilding Network, 2024, Peacebuilding in Australian Foreign Policy: a Summary of Views and Conclusions from the Australia Peacebuilding Network Roundtable.
Currently there is limited attention to peacebuilding in Australian foreign policy; the Government’s focus being on reactive military options, leaving little place for peacebuilding to be part of the discussion.