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Rethinking Security @rethinkingsecurity.bsky.social · 15h

The Genocide Convention imposes obligations on states & individuals not just to punish the crime of genocide but to actively prevent it. Carne Ross assesses the UK government & its officials' complicity in Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.
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Is our Government Complicit in Genocide?

The Genocide Convention imposes obligations on states and individuals not just to punish the crime of genocide but to actively prevent it. Two years into the war in Gaza and over 20 months since th…

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Rethinking Security @rethinkingsecurity.bsky.social · 16h

Tonight at 6pm!

Don't miss our Open Discussion on responding to the UK’s National Security Strategy.

Register: rethinkingsecurity.org.uk/home/events/

Events

Upcoming Wednesday 08 October 2025, 6.00pm to 7.15pm ‘Dangerous World’, Dangerous Narrative: Addressing the UK’s National Security Strategy Register here In June of 2025, the curr…

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ForcesWatch @forceswatch.bsky.social · 1d

🪖HAPPENING TOMORROW!

Join @rethinkingsecurity.bsky.social for an online discussion exploring the UK government’s National Security Strategy (NSS) and its focus on militarisation.

Tickets + More info: https://rethinkingsecurity.org.uk/home/events/

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Medact @medact.bsky.social · 2d

Register to join this conversation we'll be part of on Wednesday evening! ⬇️

Rethinking Security @rethinkingsecurity.bsky.social · 20d

📢New event

We see growing hostility & racism in our politics and streets, climate breakdown across the globe, and ongoing war & genocide. Competition & militarism are not the answer.

Join our discussion on 08 October to share ideas for a counter-narrative.

rethinkingsecurity.org.uk/home/events/

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Rethinking Security @rethinkingsecurity.bsky.social · 5d

🚨New Event:

'Rethinking Peace & Security Policy in Australia & the UK'

On 16 October we'll bring together reps from RS & the Australian Peace and Security Forum, to discuss how & why our networks seek urgent change to security policies, incl. AUKUS.💂‍♂️🦘

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Rethinking Peace and Security Policy in Australia and the UK

Register here A new webinar on 16 October (09.00 UK time) will bring together representatives from Rethinking Security and a new peer network, the Australian Peace and Security Forum, founded last …

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caatuk.bsky.social @caatuk.bsky.social · 5d

In a joint opinion from international law experts, they warn that Britain is breaching the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) with the purchase of nuclear-capable fighter jets and US nuclear bombs in Britain.

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Rethinking Security @rethinkingsecurity.bsky.social · 6d

We were delighted to join the debate on military spending at this year's Labour Party Conference.
RS Coordinator Richard Reeve spoke on an Eleanor Crook Fdn panel on 'the future for aid & development in an era of defence and security', incl. @umakumaran.bsky.social & @tandhesi.bsky.social MPs.

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Rethinking Security @rethinkingsecurity.bsky.social · 12d

In Liverpool for the Labour Party Conference next week?

Don't miss our Coordinator Richard Reeve and a great panel of speakers at this Eleanor Crook Fdn event on:

'The Future of Aid & Development in an Era of Defence & Security'

Mon 29 Sept, 12.30, Revolucion de Cuba, Albert Dock

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ForcesWatch @forceswatch.bsky.social · 13d

Join @rethinkingsecurity.bsky.social for a discussion exploring the UK government’s National Security Strategy & its focus on militarisation.

An opportunity to share insights, challenge dominant narratives & develop constructive responses.

Tickets: https://rethinkingsecurity.org.uk/home/events/

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Rethinking Security @rethinkingsecurity.bsky.social · 14d

Europe urgently needs to reimagine its role in the world & find a sustainable peace for Ukraine.
Sicherheit neu Denken (German RS) has published a ‘Positive Peace Scenario for Europe’s Role in the World’.
Ralf Becker explains the concept and its reception.

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‘Europe’s Role for Peace in the World’: A Positive Peace Scenario from Sicherheit neu Denken

In order to overcome major global challenges, especially climate breakdown and the crisis in the international legal order, it is necessary to end the Ukraine war as quickly as possible. Europe als…

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Rethinking Security @rethinkingsecurity.bsky.social · 20d

📢New event

We see growing hostility & racism in our politics and streets, climate breakdown across the globe, and ongoing war & genocide. Competition & militarism are not the answer.

Join our discussion on 08 October to share ideas for a counter-narrative.

rethinkingsecurity.org.uk/home/events/

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Scientists for Global Responsibility @responsiblesci.bsky.social · 20d

🚨TOMORROW: How does militarism drive the climate crisis, and why is it ignored in UN climate talks?

SGR's Stuart Parkinson will join global experts making a feminist call for demilitarisation in the UN climate process.

📆 19th September, 2PM UTC

Sign up now: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Saferworld @saferworld.bsky.social · 20d

Saferworld, alongside other organisations, has signed a joint letter responding to the UN Commission of Inquiry finding of #genocideinGaza and UK position on genocide.

Read the full letter: https://bit.ly/4gqHNYc

Joint Statement: UN Commission of Inquiry finding of genocide in Gaza and UK position on genocide - News and resources - Saferworld

Comment & analysis Joint Statement: UN Commission of Inquiry finding of genocide in Gaza and UK position on genocide 18 September 2025 Saferworld, alongside other organisations, has signed a joint letter responding to the UN Commission of Inquiry findin...

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Rethinking Security @rethinkingsecurity.bsky.social · 22d

80 years after WW2, the UK & Europe are rearming at breakneck pace, including with more US nuclear weapons. Kirsten Bayes reflects on the waning of arms controls & the rise of the politics of distraction and demonization, suggesting three crucial responses.

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Drawing Circles: Reflections on Hiroshima Day and European rearmament

Eighty years on from the nuclear devastation of Hiroshima, the UK and Europe are rearming at breakneck pace, including with more US nuclear weapons. Kirsten Bayes reflects on the waning of arms con…

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Dr Iain Overton @iainoverton.bsky.social · 22d

A UN inquiry has found Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, leaving the UK at risk of complicity through its arms sales, military support, and intelligence sharing.

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The UK cannot plead ignorance: complicity in genocide - AOAV

A UN inquiry has found Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, leaving the UK at risk of complicity through its arms sales, military support, and intelligence sharing.

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caatuk.bsky.social @caatuk.bsky.social · 28d

An excellent report, which echoes, with comprehensive evidence, what CAAT and others such as
@rethinkingsecurity.bsky.social have said - more military spending and armaments are not the way to peace and security, and harm sustainable human and economic development.

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UN Office for Disarmament Affairs on X: "UN Secretary-General @antonioguterres, @INakamitsu and @UNDP @HaoliangXu launched the report “The Security We Need: Rebalancing Military Spending for a Sustainable and Peaceful Future” which examines the impact of global increase in military expenditure 👉 https://t.co/B8cCrlR8yi https://t.co/nJhMP9KsMq" / X

UN Secretary-General @antonioguterres, @INakamitsu and @UNDP @HaoliangXu launched the report “The Security We Need: Rebalancing Military Spending for a Sustainable and Peaceful Future” which examines the impact of global increase in military expenditure 👉 https://t.co/B8cCrlR8yi https://t.co/nJhMP9KsMq

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Rethinking Security @rethinkingsecurity.bsky.social · 28d

A useful and important summary of the UK's worsening complicity in genocide on the day that the Israeli prime minister is welcomed to Downing Street and Israeli arms manufacturers exhibit freely in London.

David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 29d

A brief 🧵on the UK's cynical and conveniently shifting position on this.

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Israel not committing genocide in Gaza, but casualties and destruction are 'utterly appalling', says UK government

Israel has strongly denied that its actions in Gaza amount to genocide, but is being challenged on the issue in a case at the International Court of Justice in The Hague.

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Rethinking Security @rethinkingsecurity.bsky.social · Sep 4

Essential reading on the dire implications for health of war, rearmament and runaway military spending.
We're looking forward to discussing the same at the Labour Party conference in Liverpool later this month.

The BMJ @bmj.com · Sep 2

The arms industry deserves scrutiny at a time when defence and military spending threatens health

Read this editorial introducing our new series on the arms trade and health

www.bmj.com/content/390/bmj.r1794

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Rethinking Security @rethinkingsecurity.bsky.social · Sep 2

It's September! - the next best time to catch up with @saferworld.bsky.social August podcast, featuring our coordinator Richard Reeve & Director of @gaps-network.bsky.social Eva Tabbasam on the UK's dangerous direction of travel under recent National Security Strategy and Strategic Defence Review.

Saferworld @saferworld.bsky.social · Aug 13

🎙️New #Warpod Episode Alert!

What kind of security future is the UK preparing for?

We speak to @gaps-network.bsky.social & @rethinkingsecurity.bsky.social about the UK’s new defence + security strategies — and what they might be missing.

Listen now ▶️ bit.ly/45vtuwD

#SecurityPolicy #Peacebuilding

Rethinking Security @rethinkingsecurity.bsky.social · Aug 29

Reading well worth your while this weekend on the disingenuous and dangerous promotion of a 'defence dividend' from surging military spending in the UK.

RUSI @rusi.bsky.social · Aug 18

'In the UK and broader European context, defence spending is not an effective route to jobs, growth or the economic security of working people' write Noah Sylvia and Khem Rogaly in the latest RUSI Commentary.

The False Promise of Defence as Prosperity

Framing defence spending as a path to prosperity ignores its poor economic returns, limited job creation, and the opportunity costs of not making alternative public investments.

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · Aug 29

This should be headline news - the implications are horrifying …

Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low-likelihood, study finds

Scientists say ‘shocking’ discovery shows rapid cuts in carbon emissions are needed to avoid catastrophic fallout

www.theguardian.com

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Saferworld @saferworld.bsky.social · Aug 13

🎙️New #Warpod Episode Alert!

What kind of security future is the UK preparing for?

We speak to @gaps-network.bsky.social & @rethinkingsecurity.bsky.social about the UK’s new defence + security strategies — and what they might be missing.

Listen now ▶️ bit.ly/45vtuwD

#SecurityPolicy #Peacebuilding

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Rethinking Security @rethinkingsecurity.bsky.social · Aug 7

If you missed it last month, don't miss the recording of the @mybisa.bsky.social session discussing the UK's new National Security Strategy, featuring
@christinecheng.bsky.social, @joedevanny.bsky.social, Lewis Brooks, Paul Rogers, Claire Duncanson & Will Jessett.

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Digesting the UK's new National Security Strategy- Security Policy and Practice | BISA

- Security Policy and Practice Working Group

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Rethinking Security @rethinkingsecurity.bsky.social · Aug 6

"We remind the UK government that its own most urgent priorities should already be determined by its binding obligation “to prevent and to punish” genocide."

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Palestine Action ban is an attack on fundamental freedoms | Letter

A letter from 52 scholars including Tariq Ali, Judith Butler, Angela Davis, Naomi Klein and Avi Shlaim

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Lisa Cumming @lisacumin.bsky.social · Aug 6

"Let the signals we send be those of peace, and the knots we tie symbolise how our fates are bound inextricably together."

Kirsten Bayes

A beautifully written reflection via @rethinkingsecurity.bsky.social that connects many dots.

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Drawing Circles: Reflections on Hiroshima Day and European rearmament

Eighty years on from the nuclear devastation of Hiroshima, the UK and Europe are rearming at breakneck pace, including with more US nuclear weapons. Kirsten Bayes reflects on the waning of arms con…

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