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Author: Philip Austin

Philip Austin works as the Coordinator for Northern Friends Peace Board, supporting Quakers and others in action and advocacy for peace.
6 May 20206 May 2020 Philip Austin

From Violence to Ventilators: Does arms conversion start here?

Powerful interests have long opposed the conversion of arms industries to more socially useful production. The coronavirus crisis might just be changing that dynamic.

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Main image credits: Fruit seller in Hebron by Chloe Skinner. Royal Navy nuclear-armed submarine HMS Vanguard returns to HMNB Clyde, Scotland, November 2009, Defence Images (MoD) via Flickr. Woman sitting on the ruins of her house destroyed by Israel in Masafer Yatta, January 2023, via Wikipedia.

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