Brune, Peter2019-09-252019-09-252011-06-2820099187748932http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/179663In 2001, three Swedish ecumenical institutions, the Christian Council of Sweden, the Swedish Mission Council and the Swedish Fellowship of Reconciliation, started a joint project to highlight the growing transfers of military equipment, primarily to the global South. The Life & Peace Institute later joined the initiative. The increase in these transfers ruptured the positive trend of a decline in the production and proliferation of arms, which prevailed until the end of the 1990’s, following the end of the Cold War. The new approach that characterises this church-related initiative is to restrict the scope of action to the legal trade of conventional weapons (“government to government”) and to see that an inclusive dialogue with all the actors involved is developed and maintainedPages: 83engWith permission of the license/copyright holderactionreligionPolitical ethicsReligious ethicsPeace ethicsGovernance and ethicsComparative religion and interreligious dialogueBook