‘Ordinary citizens – from peacebuilders to local communities – need to create a different conversation.’| The Friend

UK-Iraqi security cooperation is set to enter a new phase, as the Global Coalition's military mission against Daesh in Iraq, Operation Inherent Resolve, successfully concludes and its forces - includi...

Peace Works highlights the costs of conflict globally and to the UK, shows how conflict is changing, and gives examples of where and how peacebuilders have made decisive contributions to the prevention and resolution of violent conflict.

The Strategic Defence Review and National Security Strategy, both published in June 2025, saw the UK government commit decisively to a highly militarised version of national security. In a move awa…

Peacebuilding works, is far cheaper than war, and has the public’s support across the British political spectrum. So why is it so hard to fund compared to military options? Teresa Dumasy shar…

This report, developed and endorsed by a coalition of UK-based organisations working to prevent violent conflict around the world, including Rethinking Security and many of its members, is a rallyi…

Peacebuilding works, is far cheaper than war, and has the public’s support across the British political spectrum. So why is it so hard to fund compared to military options? Teresa Dumasy shar…

This report, developed and endorsed by a coalition of UK-based organisations working to prevent violent conflict around the world, including Rethinking Security and many of its members, is a rallyi…

Three months into his premiership, Andy Burnham seems uncomfortable with growing domestic and international pressure to increase military spending. Larry Attree argues that the PM should query rece…

This week marks the six-month anniversary of the current US and Israeli military campaign against Iran. With the war stalemated, President Trump humiliated, and US military forces degraded and demo…

Within ten days of becoming prime minister, Andy Burnham had hitched his wagon to the idea that an ‘independent nuclear deterrent’ can guarantee not only the UK’s national security but also its rei…

As the climate collapses and wars sweep the Middle East, Ukraine and beyond, Diana Francis and Andrew Rigby, two of the founders of Rethinking Security a decade ago, make the urgent case for far mo…

In 2025 the UK government produced its National Security Strategy, titled “Security for the British People in a Dangerous World”, setting the UK on a path to increased militarisation and seeking to…

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Some militaries have strategies to reduce their carbon emissions – but the latest data shows these are being dwarfed by the effects of spiralling arms spending. Stuart Parkinson investigates.

This paper summarises UK defence spending. It also looks at international comparisons of the defence spending of NATO allies and UK spending in some key areas, including equipment and military operati...

In 2025 the UK government produced its National Security Strategy, titled “Security for the British People in a Dangerous World”, setting the UK on a path to increased militarisation and seeking to…

The July 2026 NATO Summit was another display of performative loyalty to Donald Trump, quantified in percentage points of GDP and multibillion dollar equipment contracts. Ian Davis argues that the …

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The Kingdom of Tonga has become the 100th country to sign, ratify or accede to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, marking a major milestone for the growing global movement to eliminate ...

As ever, a lot will depend on the mood of the US president, Donald Trump.

Following the release of his government’s Defence Investment Plan (DIP), more than 50 organisations from across the UK have jointly written to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer to warn against …

The “defence dividend” promised by the UK Government will not materialise.

More than fifty humanitarian, climate and peacebuilding organisations are urging Keir Starmer to rethink Britain's growing military spending, ahead of the NATO summit in Ankara.

Following the release of his government’s Defence Investment Plan (DIP), more than 50 organisations from across the UK have jointly written to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer to warn against …

In the wake of yesterday’s Defence Investment Plan (DIP), more than 50 organisations from across the UK have jointly written to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer to warn against the government’s incr…