Click here for a list of 135 organizations from around the world that endorsed a COAT event

 

HERE IS A SELECTED LIST OF MILITARY CONVERSION, PEACE and anti-ARMS TRADE RESOURCES

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• Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade (Canada)
  The Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade is a national network of individuals and organizations that began in late 1988 to organize opposition to ARMX '89, Canada's largest weapons bazaar. COAT has continued to expose and oppose Canada's role in the international arms trade, particularly where there is trade to governments which are engaged in war or which violate human rights. Here is a link to the old COAT website (up to  February 1998).
  
• www.gandhiinstitute.org 
  The site of M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence
  
• http://cicg.free.fr
  We are a regrouping of French people concerned by and opposed to the war being waged against Afghanistan. We are circulating a petition and organising an International Speakout against the War in Paris on Dec. 2nd. The  exact venue of the speakout will be posted on the site http://cicg.free.fr  within the following two weeks. You will  also find there lots of infos about currents anti-war events in Europe, and  links to similar sites all over the world. You can also sign our petition  online.  Bonjour Nous sommes un groupe de personnes concernées par la guerre  contre l'Afghanistan et opposées à elle.   Nous faisons circuler une pétition "Non à la croisade impériale - Cette  guerre n'est pas la nôtre" et organisons un Forum international contre la guerre  à Paris le 2 Décembre 2001. Au fur et à mesure que nous aurons des informations  concernant ce forum nous les mettrons sur le site http://cicg.free.fr Si vous en êtes d'accord, vous pouvez signer cette pétition  sur le site  Sur le site, vous trouverez aussi le texte de la pétition en  anglais, espagnol, italien, allemand et norvégien et des informations concernant  des évènements anti-guerre en Europe,   des liens à des sites similaires partout dans le monde.
  
• New Internationalist
  This monthly magazine reports on issues of world poverty and inequality and focuses attention on the unjust relationship between the powerful and the powerless in both rich and poor nations.
  
• Lawyers Against the War (LAW) is an international group of lawyers and others who: (1) support the use of national and international law to settle disputes, prosecute offenders, and protect human rights;
  (2) oppose the illegal use of force between states, in particular the illegal US-led use of force against Afghanistan and Iraq; and, (3) support the rule of law and adherence to international law.
  
• PeaceHope
  A website by James R. Bennett, Professor Emeritus in the Department of English, University of Arkansas.  This site has sections on: Victims of U.S Invasions, Grassroots Militarism, PeaceWriting, Alternative Careers for Graduating Seniors, Peace Directory, Vegetarian Peace Cookbook and Peace Garden Awards.
  
• Canadian Centres for Teaching Peace
  A peace resource site providing resources, information, proposals, solutions, links, feedback, a Peace guestbook and constant additions.
  
• Independent Media Center
• Independent Media Center  Israel
• Independent Media Center Atlanta (SOA 26 trial coverage )
  Indymedia is a collective of independent media organizations and hundreds of journalists offering grassroots, non-corporate coverage of major protests.
  
• Mines Action Canada
  Mines Action Canada in support of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines.
  
• Institute for Energy and Environmental Research
  The Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER) is dedicated to increasing public involvement in and control over environmental problems through the democratization of science. Our primary focus is on environmental and security issues related to nuclear weapons production and testing.
  
• Peace Action
  Peace Action (formerly SANE/FREEZE, founded in 1957), and its sister organization, Peace Action Education Fund (PAEF), work through national and grassroots citizens' action to promote global nuclear disarmament, reduce unnecessary military spending, and end the international arms trade.
  
• Military Spending Working Group
  Formed in mid-1994, the Military Spending Working Group (MSWG) is a coalition of two dozen research and advocacy organizations seeking to educate members of the public, news media, and government about the possibility and desirability of reducing excess military spending globally.
  
• Peacewire
  Peacewire is a cooperative effort between the Public Education for Peace Society, and End the Arms Race. Peacewire was launched in August of 1995 as part of events marking the 50th Anniversary of the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
  
• NGO Committee on Disarmament
  This is the homepage for the NGO Committee on Disarmament, the principal service organization for Non-Governmental Organizations (research institutes, activist/advocacy groups, volunteer organizations, professional associations) involved with disarmament in the United Nations context.
  
• Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (S.I.P.R.I.)
  SIPRI has built its reputation and standing on competence, professional skills, and the collection of hard data and precise facts, rendering accessible impartial information on weapon developments, arms transfers and production, military expenditure, as well as on arms limitations, reductions and disarmament. The task of the Institute is to conduct 'scientific research on questions of conflict and cooperation of importance for international peace and security with the aim of contributing to an understanding of the conditions for peaceful solution of international conflicts and for a stable peace'.
  
• Center for Economic Conversion (U.S.A.)
  The Center for Economic Conversion is a non-profit, nonpartisan public benefit corporation dedicated to building a sustainable peace-oriented economy. Founded in 1975, CEC works at the national, state, and local levels to reduce economic dependence on excessive military spending and reinvest resources to meet human needs and preserve and restore the environment.
  
• National Commission for Economic Conversion and Disarmament (U.S.A.)
  The National Commission for Economic Conversion and Disarmament is a non-profit, non-partisan research and public education organization dedicated to educating the public on the need and the means for an orderly transfer of military resources to civilian use.
  
• Jane's On-line (Jane's Defense Weekly)
  Apparently "the ultimate source for accurate and impartial information in the world on the subjects of defense, weaponry, civil aviation and transportation." Also known as the international catalogue of the arms trade.
  
• ConverNet, Bonn International Centre for Conversion (B.I.C.C.)
  As an independent non-profit organization, B-I-C-C supports and promotes the process by which people, skills, technology, equipment, financial and economic resources are shifted from the military or the defense sector towards alternative, civilian purposes. Working as a worldwide clearinghouse on practical conversion experiences and projects, B-I-C-C provides documentation, research, information and consulting services for governmental and non-governmental organizations, research institutes, companies and individuals involved in conversion.
  
• Conversion Resources at the United Nations: a bibliography (B.I.C.C.)
  This report assembles a bibliography of United Nations publications related to the subject of conversion as of September 1994. Chapter 1 gives a brief introduction to the analytical approach, defines military conversion according to the United Nations' terminology and highlights the major obstacles hampering the research. Chapter 2 indicates which institutions in the network of the United Nations organization have dealt or are dealing with the subject of conversion. It focuses not on a detailed description of the different initiatives started by these UN institutions, but rather on the resulting publications. Publications have been listed for each separate UN institution under consideration.
  
• Office of Economic Conversion Information (U.S. government)
  OECI is a collaborative initiative of the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Department of Defense. OECI is a free service that provides information about defense adjustment and defense conversion, economic development and technology transfer.
  
• Council for a Livable World
  The Council was founded in 1962 by physicist Leo Szilard to combat the menace of nuclear war. Council later expanded our program to include other weapons of mass destruction, both chemical and biological. In the aftermath of the Gulf War, the Board of Directors decided to create two new programs to work against arms sales to other governments and to build support for U.N. peacekeeping operations. The Council for a Livable World also operates as a political action committee, endorses candidates for the U.S. Senate who are supportive of arms control and asks Council supporters to contribute to endorsed candidates through the Council.
  
• Arms Transfer Working Group (U.S.A.)
  The Arms Transfers Working Group (ATWG) is an alliance of primarily Washington, DC-based national arms control, disarmament, development, economic conversion, human rights and religious organizations concerned about the spread of conventional weaponry around the world. Formed in the aftermath of the 1991 Gulf War---and motivated by the humanitarian, economic and security implications of arms trafficking---this forum serves as a clearinghouse of information and a point of contact for strategizing and coordinating activities among the diverse member-groups.
  
• Peace and Disarmament Resources (PeaceNet)
  The Institute for Global Communications serves to expand and inspire movements for environmental sustainability, human and workers' rights, nonviolent conflict resolution, social and economic justice, and women's equality by providing and developing accessible computer networking tools. IGC is the U.S. member and a founding member of the Association for Progressive Communications.
  
• The Center for Nonproliferation Studies
  The Program for Arms Control, Disarmament, and Conversion (PACDC) monitors current developments and conducts research on the acquisition, export and buildup of conventional armaments. This research is designed to generate and promote practical policy alternatives which address the negative consequences of the excessive accumulation of conventional military weapons.
  
• Arms Sales Monitoring Project (Federation of American Scientists)
  The Federation of American Scientists conducts analysis and advocacy on science, technology and public policy, including nuclear weapons, arms sales, biological hazards, secrecy, and space policy. FAS is a privately-funded non-profit policy organization whose Board of Sponsors includes half of America's living Nobel Laureates. FAS was founded as the Federation of Atomic Scientists in 1945 by members of the Manhattan Project who produced the first atomic bomb, to address the implications and dangers of the nuclear age. FAS is the oldest organization dedicated to ending the arms race and avoiding the use of nuclear weapons, and much of its work has been in nuclear arms control and disarmament.
  
• The Gerald and Maas
  The Gerald and Maas Community page