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Redirecting Military Resources in South Africa Edited by Jacklyn Cock and Penny Mckenzie IDRC/David Philip 1998 ISBN 0-88936-853-8 234 pp. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, represents, in the final analysis, a theft from those that hunger and are not fed, are cold and are not clothed." Remember the global peace dividend — the budget surpluses that were supposed to result from the raising of the Iron Curtain and the end of the arms race? As war-torn societies in the Middle East, Latin America, and parts of Africa found peace and began building democratic societies, governments were supposed to use the money they once spent on the military to better meet basic human needs. But has it happened? In South Africa, this process has been underway since the early 1990s, but it has been uneven and fragile, with contradictory outcomes such as an increased emphasis on arms export and a rise in banditry and criminal gangs. From Defence to Development argues that South Africa must go beyond a narrow conception of the process and focus instead on the redirection of military resources, both human and material, toward sustainable development and environmental restoration. Such a focus would require
THE EDITORS Jacklyn Cock is Professor of Sociology at the University of Witwatersrand,Johannesburg, South Africa. She was a founder of the Group for Environmental Monitoring (GEM) and leader of the IDRC-funded project "Militarization and the Ecology of Southern Africa." Penny Mckenzie currently coordinates the "Defence and Development" project of the Group for Environmental Monitoring (GEM, South Africa). She also coordinated the IDRC-funded project "Militarization and the Ecology of Southern Africa."
Foreword Thenjiwe Mtintso 1998 Acknowledgements 1998 List of contributors 1998 1. Introduction. Part 1. Jacklyn Cock 1998 2. Guns or Butter? Growth, Development and Security Gavin Cawthra 1998 3. The 1996 Defence White Paper: An Agenda for State Demilitarisation? Laurie Nathan 1998 4. Reclaiming the Land: A Case Study of Riemvasmaak Penny Mckenzie 1998 5. Weapons testing: Its impact on people and the Environment Penny Mckenzie 1998 6. South Africa’s arms industry: Prospects for Conversion Peter Batchelor 1998 7. Light weapons proliferation: The link between security and development Jacklyn Cock 1998 8. Still killing: Land-mines in Southern Africa Alex Vines 1998 9. Apartheid’s nuclear arsenal: Deviation from development David Fig 1998 10. After the war: Demobilisation in South Africa Tsepe Motumi and Penny Mckenzie 1998 11. Demobilisation and reintegration in society: Human resources conversion Rocky Williams 1998 12. Militarised youth: Political pawns or social agents? Monique Marks and Penny Mckenzie 1998 References 1998 |
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