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Federal Election 2007 - Peace issues
survey questions and resources
| Cluster Bombs Ban |
Do
you support, within Australia and globally, a ban on the
development, production, transfer, stockpiling and use of cluster
munitions? |
- Cluster
Munitions Coalition
- Cluster bombs kill
indiscriminately. The CMC is supporting a new international process
for a new treaty to prohibit these weapons.
- International
Campaign to ban Landmines
- ICBL calls for the implementation
of the ban mines treaty.
- Arms
Control Association
- An authoritative resource of
comment on weapons systems and their limitation and
reduction.
- The
ALP response to this question "... is
a quite cynical misrepresentation of Handicap
International’s position" on Cluster
bombs.
- Download
full H-I response to ALP
assertion. 23 Nov 07.
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Nuclear Weapons
Abolition |
Do
you support the verifiable, staged abolition of nuclear weapons, to
be complete within 12 years, on the basis of a binding Nuclear
Weapons Convention? |
- International
Campaign to Abolish Nuclear weapons (ICAN)
- To build a groundswell of public
opinion that will compel legislators to agree by 2010 to an
international treaty to abolish verifiably all nuclear weapons
by 2020.
- Nuclear
weapons are primed and ready for launch within minutes of
warning. January 2007
- Article by Bruce Blair (World
Security Institute) in the Bulletin of the Atomic
Scientists.
- Parliamentary
Network for Nuclear Disarmament -
- "" A UN speech by Senator
Roméo Dallaire, 12 October 2007.
- Paul Monk in The Age
- 17 October 2007
- America
should lead the world in nuclear disarmament.
- A
World Free of Nuclear Weapons - op ed in the Wall
St Journal, 4 Jan 2007, P15
- Four former
senior US defence officials have called for urgent and concerted
action to rid the world of nuclear weapons: George P.
Shultz, William J. Perry, Henry A. Kissinger and Sam Nunn
- Scotland
seeks world backing for banning nuclear weapons - 21
October 2007.
- The Scottish government's
campaign to rid Scotland of nuclear weapons.
- Peace
Tasmania nuclear disarmament page has many other
links.
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| Iraq |
a)
War. Do you believe that the coalition is winning the war in
Iraq?
b) Occupation. Do you believe that the people of Iraq want
the occupying military forces to remain?
c) Australian Withdrawal. If elected, would you support a
proposal, when Parliament assembles, to withdraw Australian military
forces from Iraq without delay? |
- Bring
Them Home Now!
- A coordinating committee of US military families, veterans,
active duty personnel, reservists and others "opposed to
the ongoing war in Iraq and galvanized to action by George W.
Bush's inane and reckless challenge to armed Iraqis resisting
occupation to 'Bring 'em on.' "
- Electronic
Iraq
- A news portal on the US-Iraq crisis published by veteran
antiwar campaigners Voices in the Wilderness and respected
Middle East supplementary news publishers, the Electronic
Intifada.
- Iraqi
Crisis Report
- of the Institute
for War and Peace Reporting
has up-to-date reporting and survey of the main stories in Iraq's newspapers.
- Bush
has become the new Saddam (20 September 2007)
- A detailed account of the living,
political and violence situation from an experienced observer
Patrick Graham.
- The
future is all
about oil 18 October 2007.
- Article in London Review of Books
by Jim Holt. The occupation of Iraq is a success in ensuring US
control of the oil for many years.
- The
Iraq page on Peace Tasmania has many other links.
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| Afghanistan |
a)
Occupation. Do you believe that the people of Afghanistan
want the occupying military forces to remain?
b) Australian Withdrawal. If elected, would you support a
proposal, when Parliament assembles, to withdraw Australian military
forces from Afghanistan without delay? |
- Afghanistan
disaster
- A Senlis Council 2007 report shows
"Afghans see the international military coalitions as taking
sides in a civil war situation, and as NATO-ISAF troops retreat to
their fortified military compounds in southern Afghanistan, locals
perceive that the Taliban-led insurgents are once again defeating
global military powers."
- Afghan
Recovery Report
- of the Institute
for War and Peace Reporting
has up-to-date reporting and survey of the main stories in
Afghanistan's media.
- The
Support Association for the Women of Afghanistan
- Emphasising women's issues and
support; with information, reports and links.
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| Conflict resolution |
Do
you support the legislated allocation of a proportion, at least 2%,
of the Defence Budget to the application of non-violent conflict
resolution processes to forestall international conflicts and to
transform them from violence? |
- Charter
of the United
Nations
- "... to save succeeding generations from
the scourge of war, ..."
- European
Centre for Conflict Prevention
- ECCP has resources, databases, peace-building
programmes, networks and links, including to the Global
Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict.
- Project
on Defense Alternatives of the U S Commonwealth
Institute
- It promotes a "transitional security
policy", as a move towards "nonmilitary means of conflict
prevention, containment, and resolution".
- Australian
Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies - University of
Queensland
- A key Australian Centre focussed on research
and professional practice in peacekeeping, peacebuilding and economic,
social and political development, with a prime objective to locate and
explore avenues for peace and conflict resolution. ACPCS has many links
to other centres.
- SIPRI
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
- One of the world's most respected
institutions, "for peaceful solutions of international conflicts and
for a stable peace". They have many resources.
- Peace
Tasmania Peacemaking page has many other
links.
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