{"id":6482,"date":"2020-05-19T19:28:08","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T17:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/?p=6482"},"modified":"2020-11-11T01:07:32","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T00:07:32","slug":"militarisation-update-reiner-braun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/politics\/militarisation-update-reiner-braun\/","title":{"rendered":"Militarisation Update &#8211; Global Spending, Opportunity Costs &#038; Technological Developments"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row justify-content-md-center\">\n<div class=\"col-md-8 pb-3\">\n<p><strong>Militarisation Update &#8211; Global Spending, Opportunity Costs &amp; Technological Developments<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>In this interview with Reiner Braun, CEO of the IPB &#8211; International Peace Bureau, we examine recent developments in the field of militarisation that includes global military spending and technological developments. Furthermore we discuss the opportunity costs of militarisation and possible solutions that could be pursued to make our system more peaceful and cooperative.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>VIDEO:\u00a0Militarisation Update &#8211; Global Spending, Opportunity Costs &amp; Technological Developments<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Militarisation Update - Global Spending, Opportunity Costs &amp; Technological Developments\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gwhpg7haFgI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>To watch more of our videos on this topic or with other experts such as Edward Snowden, Noam Chomsky, Abby Martin, Yanis Varoufakis, Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill, Jill Stein, Daniel Ellsberg, etc, please visit and subscribe to our YouTube channel by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/acTVismMunich?sub_confirmation=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Donate today to support independent &amp; non-profit media!<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/donate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here<\/a>\u00a0or on the picture below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/donate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4434 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/28_acTVism_Webseite_Donation-Image_EN_700x233px_Future.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/28_acTVism_Webseite_Donation-Image_EN_700x233px_Future.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/28_acTVism_Webseite_Donation-Image_EN_700x233px_Future-300x100.jpg 300w\" width=\"700\" height=\"233\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>ABOUT REINER BRAUN<\/h2>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/reiner.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4285\" src=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/reiner-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"reiner braun\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Reiner Braun<\/strong>\u00a0studied German Literature, History and Journalism. Since 1982, he has been actively involved in the Peace Movement, working in the office of the \u201cKrefelder Appeal\u201d against new nuclear weapons in Europe. Since 1983 he has been the Executive Director for Scientist for Peace and Sustainability (Germany) and since 1991, also for the International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility (INES).<\/p>\n<p>Since 2004, Reiner Braun has been working for various projects related to the Einstein year at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin as well as\u00a0 for the Max Planck Society. From 2006 till 2017, he was the Executive Director of German IALANA Germany, the international IALANA. He also worked from 2006 to 2012 as Executive Director of the Federation of German Scientists (Vereinigung Deutscher Wissenschaftler, VDW). Since September 2013, he is\u00a0 co-president of the International Peace Bureau. He was one of the main organizers of the world congress of IPB September\/October 2016 \u201cDisarm! For a Climate of Peace\u201d. Since many years he has been one of the speakers of the German peace movement, e.g., engaged in the campaign against the US Airbase in Ramstein and against NATO. He is the author of several books, including \u201cEinstein and Peace\u201d and a biography about the Peace Nobel Laureate Joseph Rotblat.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>\u00a0<strong>Citation of\u00a0YouTube Thumbnail &amp; Website Featured Image<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Link: https:\/\/www.af.mil\/About-Us\/Fact-Sheets\/Display\/Article\/104482\/b-2-spirit\/ A<\/li>\n<li>uthor: U.S. AIR FORCE<\/li>\n<li>Note. This image was available on google images under &#8220;Labeled for reuse with modification&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this interview with Reiner Braun, CEO of the International Peace Bureau, we examine recent developments in the field of militarisation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,14],"tags":[],"channel":[20951],"class_list":["post-6482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest","category-politics","channel-know-your-stuff"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.0","language":"en","enabled_languages":["de","en"],"languages":{"de":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true}}},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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