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ANDREW GREIG
Is a citizen of the world, but lives a good deal in (and loves) Sydney Australia
Peace monger, focusing on non-lethal weapons - author of "Taming War - Culture and Technology for Peace" (Peace Power Press 2007).
Interests: Many - (see also http://sydney.edu.au/arts/peace_conflict/people/visiting_scholars.shtml
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Australian budget cuts in lethal weapons
It’s budget time in Australia. In order to bring in a budget surplus, the Australian Government has cut defence spending. Fortunately the cuts are in the same old destructive lethal weapons. Ironically, Australia's security in the region has probably been enhanced as a result. When are the nations of the... Continue reading
Posted May 10, 2012 at NON-LETHAL WEAPONS FOR PEACE CAMPAIGN
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Australian budget cuts in lethal weapons
It’s budget time in Australia. In order to bring in a budget surplus, the Australian Government has cut defence spending. Fortunately the cuts are in the same old dstructive lethal weapons. Ironically, Australia's security in the region has probably been enhanced as a result. When are the nations of the... Continue reading
Posted May 10, 2012 at NON-LETHAL WEAPONS FOR PEACE CAMPAIGN
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Syrian Sorrows
There is much death and pain in Syria at present. First of all the shelling of civilians. The Syrian army has been firing high explosive shells at the country's own citizens. Men, women and children are being blown apart, hit by shrapnel or buried under rubble. We are also seeing... Continue reading
Posted Feb 20, 2012 at NON-LETHAL WEAPONS FOR PEACE CAMPAIGN
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Armed Violence - the Global Burden
The 2011 report on armed violence around the world - Global Burden of Armed Violence 2011 - is now available. This makes for fascinating and thought-provoking reading. Some half a million people are killed each year as a result of lethal violence. Interestingly only about 55,000 die in direct conflict... Continue reading
Posted Jan 29, 2012 at NON-LETHAL WEAPONS FOR PEACE CAMPAIGN
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Armed Violence - the Global Burden
The 2011 report on armed violence around the world - Global Burden of Armed Violence 2011 - is now available. This makes for fascinating and thought provoking reading. Some half a million people are killed each year as a result of lethal violence. Interestingly only about 55,000 die in direct... Continue reading
Posted Jan 29, 2012 at NON-LETHAL WEAPONS FOR PEACE CAMPAIGN
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Armed Violence - the Global Burden
The 2011 report on armed violence around the world - Global Burden of Armed Violence 2011 - is now available. This makes for fascinating and thought provoking reading. Some half a million people are killed each year as a result of lethal violence. Interestingly only about 55,000 die in direct... Continue reading
Posted Jan 29, 2012 at NON-LETHAL WEAPONS FOR PEACE CAMPAIGN
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Greetings for 2012! A good year to promote non-lethal drones
New Year Greetings for 2012! It's been a little while since our previous post. Most of the energy has gone into building up the Non-Lethal Weapons for Peace Campaign restructured website. If you haven't looked at it for a while, go to www.nonlethalweaponscampaign.com (or www.nonlethalweaponscampaign.org - this is an alternative... Continue reading
Posted Jan 10, 2012 at NON-LETHAL WEAPONS FOR PEACE CAMPAIGN
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More US Troops for Australia
On his recent visit to Australia President Obama and Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced that there would be an increased presence of US Troops in Northern Australia. This move can be interpreted as a signal to China that the West would be more assertive in the Pacific region. If... Continue reading
Posted Nov 28, 2011 at NON-LETHAL WEAPONS FOR PEACE CAMPAIGN
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Diggers shot by Afghan Trainee
Three Australian soldiers have just been shot and killed by an Afghan soldier they were training. The trainee was then shot by other soldiers. What a tragedy and what a waste of life. We may never know quite why it happened, but there will be much grief over the four... Continue reading
Posted Nov 1, 2011 at NON-LETHAL WEAPONS FOR PEACE CAMPAIGN
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Brain injury from bomb blast the 'signature wound'
Brain injury from bomb blast is the new signature injury from the Afghan wars. Professor Richard Tanter of the Nautilus Institute (reported today in Australian Broadcasting Corporation News) says that soldiers are surviving better with kevlar armour only to suffer frequent brain inury from the blast of improvised explosive devices... Continue reading
Posted Oct 8, 2011 at NON-LETHAL WEAPONS FOR PEACE CAMPAIGN
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Media Release to the Australian Media on Police Firearms - 4th October 2011
The Non-Lethal Weapons for Peace Campaign MEDIA RELEASE 4 October 2011 - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DO OUR POLICE NEED TO CARRY GUNS? Thursday’s shooting of Mr Rodney Elkass in Castle Hill confirms the need for an urgent review of firearms use by police said Andrew Greig, who is coordinator of... Continue reading
Posted Oct 3, 2011 at NON-LETHAL WEAPONS FOR PEACE CAMPAIGN
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Women on the front line
Just this week it was confirmed that women in the Australian defence forces will be able to take full combat roles. This will bring Australia into line with many other countries, including the USA. One response to this is to regret that women, who from their biology have tended to... Continue reading
Posted Sep 29, 2011 at NON-LETHAL WEAPONS FOR PEACE CAMPAIGN
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MORE POLICE SHOOTINGS IN AUSTRALIA
There have been two shootings by police in New South Wales (NSW) Australia in the last week or so. As well, an enquiry has been underway on a fatal shooting in November 2009. It appears that the victim was trying to injure himself with a kitchen knife and that the... Continue reading
Posted Sep 29, 2011 at NON-LETHAL WEAPONS FOR PEACE CAMPAIGN
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MAJ0R NON-LETHAL WEAPONS EXPO/DEMO IN OTTAWA NEXT MONTH (OCTOBER)
A major non-lethal weapons expo (trade show/conference/demo), the North American Technology Demonstration (NATD), is taking place in Ottawa next month. NATD is sponsored by NATO and jointly hosted by the United States Department of Defense Non-Lethal Weapon Program and the Canadian Department of National Defence. The event will include static... Continue reading
Posted Sep 19, 2011 at NON-LETHAL WEAPONS FOR PEACE CAMPAIGN
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NEW: Non-Lethal Weapons Interest Group database
The number of individuals and organisations interested in non-lethal weapons is increasing day-by-day. To help communication, a database is being compiled of those who want to keep in touch on NLW issues. There is a public database (name, role, organisation and email address are made public). There is also the... Continue reading
Posted Sep 2, 2011 at NON-LETHAL WEAPONS FOR PEACE CAMPAIGN
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Damage at the 'end of the war'
Just one of the tragedies of warfare is the damage that takes place as a war comes to its end. We are seeing this at present in Libya where the retreating Gaddaffi forces appear to have killed a number of prisoners. There have been signs of payback killings on the... Continue reading
Posted Sep 2, 2011 at NON-LETHAL WEAPONS FOR PEACE CAMPAIGN
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UK Riots - (triggered by Police shooting?...)
Two quick points of interest: It's ironic that the riots were apparently started when a policeman shot a suspect dead. Shooting by police is very rare in the UK. Only some 10% of police carry guns and these are mostly members of highly trained armed response groups. The UK government... Continue reading
Posted Aug 11, 2011 at NON-LETHAL WEAPONS FOR PEACE CAMPAIGN
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Name Change to Blog
You may have noticed that the name of this blog has changed. It's grown longer - from "Non-Lethal Weapons Campaign" to "Non-Lethal Weapons for Peace Campaign". Why? Well, it became apparent that there are various agencies promoting non-lethal weapons for civil protection and as an added capacity for the military.... Continue reading
Posted Jun 17, 2011 at NON-LETHAL WEAPONS FOR PEACE CAMPAIGN
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NLW Symposium revealed good progress
The 6th European Symposium on Non-Lethal Weapons has just taken place in the attractive historic town of Ettlingen in southern Germany. There were dozens of presentations and some 130 participants, Things are looking quite good on the NLW front, with increasing involvement of NATO, European and North American defence agencies... Continue reading
Posted May 19, 2011 at NON-LETHAL WEAPONS FOR PEACE CAMPAIGN
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Weapons at the Royal Wedding
It was a lovely wedding and they seem a terrific young couple. There were plenty of swords and other symbolic weaponry - but there were also some very lethal and visible guns in the hands of the guardsmen and not a few police (these ones were not traditional English bobbies).... Continue reading
Posted Apr 29, 2011 at NON-LETHAL WEAPONS FOR PEACE CAMPAIGN
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"Army Chief open to women serving on front line" (current news story)
Amost certainly before long, female defence force personnel in Australia will be able to serve 'on the front line'. In other words, they'll be able to kill the enemy directly like male soldiers. In most senses, this is logical. Women deserve equal responsibilities to men. The reason we may feel... Continue reading
Posted Apr 14, 2011 at NON-LETHAL WEAPONS FOR PEACE CAMPAIGN
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'Why not non-lethal weapons?' is a question we must keep on asking
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights was asking 'why not non-lethal weapons' during her visit to the occupied Palestinian territories, Israel, Egypt and Jordan in November 2000. Here's an excerpt from her report: "Asked why the IDF reportedly often resorts to the use of live ammunition instead of... Continue reading
Posted Mar 28, 2011 at NON-LETHAL WEAPONS FOR PEACE CAMPAIGN
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UN Intervention - but what about the people at the other end?
Posted Mar 20, 2011 at NON-LETHAL WEAPONS FOR PEACE CAMPAIGN
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Another 'bad-name story' on non-lethal weapons
Non lethal weapons are still associated mostly with police officers and prison guards. We usually tend to hear about them when they've been misused. Witness this story on ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Radio National's Breakfast program yesterday morning 16 March (from the transcript): Fran Kelly: "Let's return now to the... Continue reading
Posted Mar 17, 2011 at NON-LETHAL WEAPONS FOR PEACE CAMPAIGN
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'Suicide-by-cop' ? !
This post is on the domestic front. "A coroner investigating the fatal police shooting of teenager Tyler Cassidy in a Melbourne skate park has been urged to hand down a finding of suicide" reports today's Sydney Morning Herald. The implication, from this allegation of Tyler seeking 'suicide-by-cop' (as it's called... Continue reading
Posted Mar 11, 2011 at NON-LETHAL WEAPONS FOR PEACE CAMPAIGN
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