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Economists for Peace and Security, formerly ECAAR, provides a platform for economists and others interested in economics, peace and security. We provide expertise for policy issues and information for social scientists, citizens, journalists and policy-makers worldwide. On this website you can find news related to peace and security issues, links to datasets, research and other publications.
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First-ever wikipedia entry on peace…
19-08-2012
Jurgen Brauer and Raul Caruso put up the first-ever article on peace economics on wikipedia. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_economics. They write: "Apologies to colleagues... Read more
Worldwide arms transfers in 2007-20…
19-03-2012
The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) has just published new data on international arms transfers. According to SIPRI, the... Read more
Governance and Piracy
06-03-2012
In this article, the authors examine the incidence of piracy worldwide and question the assumption of a negative correlation between... Read more
The Pillars of Economic Transformat…
05-03-2012
In his 2011 State of the Union, President Obama outlined a sweeping program for economic transformation, resting on innovation, education,... Read more
Economic Governance in War Torn Eco…
22-02-2012
This report addresses the issues of economic governance in war-torn economies. In particular it makes a case for the early... Read more
Peace and economics
22-02-2012
In the working paper "Peace economists and peace economics", Jurgen Brauer and Raul Caruso delve into the question what has... Read more
Financing mechanisms for post confl…
22-02-2012
The Minister for Development Cooperation of the Netherlands, Minister Koenders, has requested a strategy paper presenting an overview of different... Read more
From Tunisia to Wall Street: The Gl…
20-02-2012
The protest movement that began in Tunisia in January, subsequently spreading to Egypt, and then to Spain, has now become... Read more
The Gucci Theory of Democracy
27-01-2012
Dambisa Moyo (www.dambisamoyo.com) is a Zambian economist who used to work for Goldman Sachs and the World Bank. In her... Read more
The South African Arms deal
26-01-2012
After 15 years since the 1996-1998 parliamentary Defence Review, EPS South Africa Terry Crawford-Browne on 17 November 2011 finally succeeded in South... Read more
EPS Journal Vol 7, No 1 is availabl…
26-01-2012
This issue includes articles on Algeria, the global airline industry, the duration of war and the onset of peace, and... Read more
The spread of civil war
25-01-2012
By Joppe de Ree and Maarten Bosker (published on VoxEU) Civil wars are devastating to a country’s development perspectives. What’s more,... Read more
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