While weapons of mass destruction (WMD) exercise the minds of political scientists, the reality is that small arms and light weapons (SALW) kill tens of thousands of people each year. SALW are the WMD.
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Peace Anthropology and Development Anthropology and History are the tools with which I analyze international affairs, as part of a world-wide web of people working for peace through Transcend, UNIDIR and other agencies. Terrorism? This is largely political propaganda: my EPES Mandala Consulting group specialized in “terrorism” and far more people die each year from road accidents or from the flu, than from terror attacks. A lot of news is fear-mongering and most comes from a small number of corporate and government sources. Investigative journalists are a threatened species.
While weapons of mass destruction (WMD) exercise the minds of political scientists, the reality is that small arms and light weapons (SALW) kill tens of thousands of people each year. SALW are the WMD.
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