
Guns or Growth?
Assessing the Impact of Arms Sales on Sustainable Development
Published: 2004
Pages: 96
Paperback: 9780855985387
Summary | |||
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1. Weighing the costs | |||
Arms transfers to development: a costly business | |||
Sustainable development: strong foundations | |||
The M illennium Development Goals: promises into practice? | |||
Voice concern | |||
The need for engagement | |||
2. Causes for concern: the impacts of arms transfers on sustainable development | |||
Opportunity Costs | |||
Economic growth | |||
The misuse of arms | |||
The risk of arms araces: the cumulative impact of arms transfers | |||
The priorities and realities of importer-government spending | |||
Identifying the positive impact of arms transfers | |||
3. Promises in pieces: sustainable development and arms exports | |||
Respecting regional and multilateral arrangements | |||
The absenceof a strong, standard, or accessible methodology | |||
Lack of transparency | |||
The importance of 'joined-up government | |||
4. Context is critical: investigating the relationship between security, governance, arms imports, and sustainable development | |||
Government decision making | |||
Budget processes and development of economic goals | |||
Budgeting practices | |||
Government justifications of arms import decisions | |||
5. Towards the development of an assessment methodology | |||
Triggers: identifying transfers of possible concern | |||
Indicators:information gathering | |||
Factors: arriving at a judgement | |||
A holistic strategy | |||
Appendices | |||
Appendix 1: Selected foundations for sustainable development | |||
Appendix 2: Summary of principles of the proposed Arms Trade Treaty | |||
Appendix 3: Graphic presentation ofproposed methodology for assessing the impact of arms transfers on sustainable development | |||
Appendix 4: Summary of proposed methodology for assessing the impact of arms transfers on sustainable development | |||
Notes |
Jane Chanaa
Dr Jane Chanaa is a careers adviser for the University of Oxford. Jane has an extensive postgraduate education and her previous roles include teaching both undergraduates and English abroad, and working as a research consultant for a charity