Media
Bell, K. (Ed) (2025) ‘Alternative Defence Review’, CND, London (02/06/25)
NEUTRALITY STUDIES, ‘Britain issues insane document on war with Russia, activists oppose’ (10/06/25) - with Alex Gordon, RMT
THE GUARDIAN ‘This is what Britain really needs to defend itself – and it doesn’t include spending billions on arms’ (02/06/25) - with contribution from Richard Norton-Taylor
The Scottish Trade Union Peace Network (STUC) launch ADR in Scotland (18th June - Karen Bell, Alex Gordon of RMT and Sam Mason of CND). There will be a parliamentary launch of the ADR in London, 2nd July. The ADR has also been discussed and made prominent to download on the websites of the following organisations:
The International Peace Bureau
The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
Global Campaign on Military Spending
It was discussed in media outlets including:
The Canary : https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2025/06/02/defence-spending-review/
Declassified UK : The UK badly needs an Alternative Defence Review: Here it is
Cicero’s : Alternative Defence Review: A Vision for Peace and Justice – Cicero's
The Morning Star : Campaigners unite for alternative to militarism | Morning Star
LBC News 2nd June (interview with CND)
LBC News 2nd June (interview with Karen)
BBC Radio 3 2nd June (interview with Karen)
Nation.Cymru 4th June The true cost of the Defence Review
The Guardian article was replicated on other websites, e.g. We need a radical break with successive failed security and defence policies | Stop the War
Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – Newsletter - 12th June The People Want Peace and Progress, Not War and Waste: The Twenty-Fourth Newsletter (2025) | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research
‘But What About the Jobs? Mapping the Path from a Militarized to a Green Economy’ international webinar (30/01/23)
NEW REPUBLIC, Oliver, I. ‘Don’t just cut defense spending. Convert the defense industry into a green powerhouse’ (30/01/23)
WATSON INSTITUTE ‘U.K. and U.S. defense worker views on the environmental costs of war and military conversion’ (26/01/23)
Panel speaker, International Military Emissions Gap Conference, Conflict and Environment Observatory, University of Oxford (26/09/23)
Keynote, Nature-Society Relations and the Global Environmental Crisis, International Conference, Humboldt- Universität, Berlin (04/05/23)
Expert roundtable discussion, IISS Cyber Power and Future Conflict Virtual Roundtable: Radical Defence Decarbonisation and Future Competition, International Institute for Strategic Studies, Singapore (18/04/23)
