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URL:https://londoncaat.org.uk/events/report-launch-missing-in-action-uk-ar
 ms-export-controls-in-armed-conflict/
SUMMARY:Report launch: Missing in Action: UK arms export controls in armed 
 conflict
DESCRIPTION:Launch of report by Prof. Anna Stavrianakis\, "Missing in Actio
 n: UK arms export controls in war and armed conflict"\n\nThis report is pa
 rt of a project led by the World Peace Foundation\, and funded by the Carn
 egie Corporation of New York\, "Defense Industries\, Foreign Policy\, and 
 Armed Conflict".\n\nThe UK’s commitments to conflict prevention and the 
 protection of human rights and international humanitarian law in its arms 
 export controls are now over twenty years old. Despite these obligations\,
  the outbreak of war or conflict has had little or no restraining effect o
 n UK arms exports - even where violations of human rights and humanitarian
  law are documented. In conflicts as varied as the Sri Lankan civil war\, 
 the occupations of Kashmir and Palestine\, and the war in Yemen\, UK arms 
 export controls have not restricted transfers in any meaningful way.\n\nRa
 ther than being proactively engaged to prevent harm\, export controls are 
 mobilised by the government to manage controversy once criticism emerges f
 rom civil society and Parliament. Risk assessments fail to take past patte
 rns into account or develop preventive orientations to likely future scena
 rios. Further\, the control regime is routinely deployed as a means of def
 lecting calls for restraint. Overall\, export controls serve a legitimisin
 g function in an attempt to mollify parliamentary opposition\, NGO and med
 ia criticism and domestic public opinion\, and to signal good internationa
 l citizenship in the face of ongoing exports to conflict zones in violatio
 n of international humanitarian and human rights law. Many credible policy
  recommendations to improve export controls have been made over the years.
  They have rarely been put into action. The key issue is the absence of po
 litical will to address the economic\, political and social costs of UK po
 licy on arms sales.\n\nThis event explores the patterns of UK arms exports
  in the last two decades\, with particular reference to arms exports to In
 dia and Pakistan in relation to Kashmir\; to the Sri Lankan armed forces i
 n the civil war\; to Israel\, used in the occupation of Palestine\; and to
  the Saudi-led coalition in the war in Yemen. Speakers from CAAT\, Mwatana
  for Human Rights and Palestine Solidarity Campaign will reflect on the ro
 le of the arms trade in sustaining these wars\, and on avenues for progres
 sive change.\n\nSpeakers\n\nAnna Stavrianakis\, the report's author\, is a
  Professor of International Relations at the University of Sussex\, UK. Sh
 e researches and teaches on the international arms trade\, UK arms export 
 policy and arms transfer control\, as well as global militarism and (in)se
 curity.\n\nAli Jameel is a former Researcher at Mwatana for Human Rights\,
  and involved in investigations and reporting on weapon remnants and ICC c
 ommunication. Currently he holds the role of Accountability and Redress Of
 ficer.\n\nRyvka Barnard is the Deputy Director of the Palestine Solidarity
  Campaign.\n\nKatie Fallon is Parliamentary Coordinator of Campaign Agains
 t Arms Trade (CAAT). She coordinates CAAT's advocacy highlighting the deva
 stating impact of the arms trade\, including of UK exports to the Saudi-le
 d Coalition in the war in Yemen.\n\nModerator: Sam Perlo-Freeman\, Researc
 h Coordinator\, Campaign Against Arms Trade.\n\nRegister for the event her
 e.\n\nNB: You will receive a confirmation email with a link to a page to j
 oin the Zoom meeting. The button to join the Zoom meeting will be enabled 
 half an hour before the event starts. You will NOT receive the Zoom link b
 y email.
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