Bomberommet Norges Fredsråd

Merk, intervjuet foregikk på engelsk.

The Norwegian Peace Council's General Manager Oda Andersen Nyborg speaks with Dr. Nan Tian from Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) on their new report on "Trends in World Military Expenditure 2023".

Every year SIPRI, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, will releases a report detailing the status of world military expenditure. The SIPRI Military Expenditure Database contains consistent time series on the military spending of countries from 1949 until today. It gives us a timeline of an increasingly militarized world.

In this episode we have invited back Dr. Nan Tian from SIPRI to talk about how the world military expenditure has evolved since last time we spoke two years ago, in 2022. What has changed since then? In our previous conversation with Dr. Nan Tian, the Russia-Ukraine war was a highly potent topic. Now, with Israels war on Gaza and tension slowly building up in East Asia, how is this affecting world military spending? You can hear our last conversation in episode number 20.

Dr. Nan Tian is a Senior Researcher and Acting Programme Director for the Military Expenditure and Arms Production Programme at SIPRI. He is responsible for monitoring and managing the SIPRI Military Expenditure Database.

Vi har invitert Bror Eskil Heiret til å snakke om hva som er status for atomsikkerheten rundt Kolahalvøya.

I del 2 av samtalen retter vi blikket mot hva som skjer med samarbeidet rundt Kolahalvøya akkurat nå, og går tettere inn på temaer som atomsikkerhet, miljø, militær rivalisering og hvordan det russiske sivilsamfunnet jobber mot krig.

Bror Eskil Heiret har jobbet i miljøbevegelsen siden 2020 med internasjonalt samarbeid og atomsikkerhet. Han har spesielt jobbet med miljø- og fredsbevegelsen i Nordvest-Russland og har tidligere bodd i Murmansk.

Vi har invitert Bror Eskil Heiret til å snakke om hva som er status for atomsikkerheten rundt Kolahalvøya.

I del 1 av samtalen starter vi med bakgrunnen for hvorfor regionen har vært og fortsatt er så sentral i relasjonen mellom Norge og Russland.

Bror Eskil Heiret har jobbet i miljøbevegelsen siden 2020 med internasjonalt samarbeid og atomsikkerhet. Han har spesielt jobbet med miljø- og fredsbevegelsen i Nordvest-Russland og har tidligere bodd i Murmansk.

Vi har invitert ICAN Norges koordinator Daniel Gudbrandsen til Bomberommet! I dagens episode snakker vi om status for FNs atomvåpenforbud, og veien videre.

ICAN - Den internasjonale kampanjen for å forby atomvåpen vant fredsprisen i 2017. Norges Fredsråd sitter i rådet til ICAN Norge.

The Norwegian Peace Councils general manager Oda Nyborg speaks with the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, on the mission of the IAEA to help secure the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which is currently occupied by Russian forces in the war on Ukraine.

How do you function as a third-party actor in a brutal war, where your goal is to the absolute benefit of all parties? How secure is Zaporizhzhia after the explosion at the Kakhovka dam?

Merk, intervjuet foregikk på engelsk.

For the 8th year in a row, global military spending reached an all-time high in 2022, according to the 2022 Military Expenditure database published by The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). Every year, SIPRI provides an incredibly valuable database on how much money the world spent on the military the previous year, allowing us to track these annual developments. What are the consequences of governments continuing to increase military funding year after year? 

Our general manager sits down with Dr. Nan Tian, a Senior Researcher with SIPRI, for an enlightening conversation as he contextualizes this expansive report. By walking us through the historic trends and current events behind the data, our conversation touches upon the war in Ukraine, global inflation, and the climate crisis - among several other topics. In this interview, Dr. Nan Tian gives meaning to the colossal amount of money being spent on the military each year. Listen to also find out why considers himself to be a ‘worried optimist’ and how he remains hopeful in his research for peace. 

Nan Tian is a Senior Researcher with the SIPRI Military Expenditure and Arms Production Programme, where he is responsible for monitoring and managing the SIPRI Military Expenditure Database. His research interests focus on the causes and impact of military expenditure and civil war. His doctoral thesis is titled 'Military Spending, Conflict and Development' and explores the relationship between military spending, civil conflict and economic development. He previously worked at the World-Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) as an economist on climate change and was a lecturer at the University of Cape Town, South Africa (SIPRI website, 2023).

This is part two of a two-part conversation. On episode 19, we spoke with Matt Korda who told us about the latest numbers on nuclear weapons and their development specifically.