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From defence to development [electronic resource] : redirecting military resources in South Africa / [edited by] Jacklyn Cock and Penny Mckenzie for the Group for Environmental Monitoring.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Militarism--South Africa.
- Militarism.
- National security--South Africa.
- National security.
- Sustainable development--South Africa.
- Sustainable development.
- South Africa--Military policy.
- South Africa.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (277 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Ottawa, Ont. : International Development Research Centre, 1998.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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?
- Contents:
- Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; List of contributors; 1. Introduction; 2. Guns or Butter? Growth, Development and Security; 3. The 1996 Defence White Paper: An Agenda for State Demilitarisation?; 4. Reclaiming the Land: A Case Study of Riemvasmaak; 5. Weapons testing: Its impact on people and the Environment; 6. South Africas arms industry: Prospects for Conversion; 7. Light weapons proliferation: The link between security and development; 8. Still killing: Land-mines in Southern Africa; 9. Apartheids nuclear arsenal: Deviation from development
- 10. After the war: Demobilisation in South AfricaIndex;
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-243) and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-71775-0
- 9786610717750
- 1-4175-3598-9
- 1-55250-151-5
- OCLC:
- 144079257
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