Relevant videos and publications

We gather here a list,  by no means exhaustive, of videos and publications that were useful in the development of our CALL and offer entry points for critical analysis and discussion of issues of militarism and how to overcome it.  For a few of them, a short description of content is available here.  

• Alternatives do exist! -- Prof. Jeffrey Sachs talks at Cambridge Union, Oct 2024

• Julian Assange briefly explains how the entertainment industry pushes for war [5 min. video]

• Monstrous Anger of the Guns How the global arms trade is ruining the world and what we can do about it [video describing  the book and its content]

• Monstrous anger of the guns -- revealing Q&As

• Arctic Council-- militarization or peace?  [article by Ingeborg Breines, 2025]

• Why public funds should be deposited in publicly-owned banks

• Arms industry as commercial determinant of health  [special series of the British Medical Journal]

• Data about carbon emissions of the Gaza war

• Types of carbon footprint of militarism and war

• Noam Chomsky's prophetic interview [2015]

• Neither prince nor merchant: citizen [article by Marc Nerfin, 1981]

• Civilian casualties in war

• We can’t fight the climate crisis without fighting militarism [video program]

• Impact of colonization and armed conflicts on Indigenous Peoples’ rights: the imperative of peace building [UN document, May 2025; includes a discussion of restorative justice]

• Indigenous peoples' cosmologies of peacemaking and peacekeeping [paper by Hanieh Moghani, 2025]

• The politics of cultural despair [video of a lecture by Chris Hedges]

• Cultures of militarism [Current Anthropology 60, 2019 -- special issue free to download]

• What do we mean by cultures of peace?  [article by Ingeborg Breines, 2025]

• A culture of peace -- Original 1995 UNESCO report 

• Data about global military spending surge

• Data on military emissions, war and health

• Earth's Greatest Enemy [preview of film under production in 2025]

• Why war? A letter from Albert Einstein to Sigmund Freud [1932]

• Daniel Ellsberg on the causes of war [revealing video of one of his last interviews]

• Global Atlas on Environmental Justice

• The EU path to war

• Europe wake-up! -- Prof. Jeffrey Sachs talks at European Parliament, Feb 2025

• Feminist political economy [a short and well-done WILFP video]

• Agroecology, food sovereignty, militarism and the cultures of peace [a blog by Michel Pimbert]

• Fratelli Tutti (Pope Francis' 2020 encyclical letter on fraternity and social friendship)

• Why war? A letter from Sigmund Freud to Albert Einstein [1932]

• Genocide as colonial erasure– Summary of 2024 Report of UN Special Rapporteur on human rights

• From economy of occupation to economy of genocide - 2025 Report of UN Special Rapporteur

• Historian David T. Gibbs on militarism and neoconservatism-- interview no 1 

• Historian David T. Gibbs on militarism and neoconservatism-- interview no 2

• Targeting health care workers

• Discussions on the history and political economy of the US power system [entry into a most informative  YouTube series with Aaron Good and Ben Norton]

• Holocaust survivals in conversation [video recorded in 2025]

• Impacts of US war in Vietnam continue to kill today

• Study of the impact of colonization and armed conflicts on Indigenous Peoples' Rights [UN Report by Hanieh Moghani et al., 2025]

• Intersection of AI and Nuclear, Biological and Cyber Threats

• Why the Anglosphere supports Israel? [video of a reply by Noam Chomsky]

• Targeting journalists [article and video]

• Letter by A. Einstein, H. Arendt et al.to The New York Times, published Dec. 4, 1948

• Antony Loewenstein on today's weapons laboratories [CNN interview]

• The popular resistance blog-- Mazin Qumsiyeh 

• Mechanisms of media indoctrination [details about UK media, but broadly applicable]

• Dismantling the military-industrial complex [masterclass video by Ray Acheson]

• Ralph Nader on the possible consequences of a different and more active 1 percent (of population)

• NATO military spending and climate breakdown

• NATO-- the most dangerous organization on Earth [Tricontinental dossier]

• The (free) Newsletter of Caitlin Johnstone breaking down the paradoxes of media, politics, academia...

• Conversations on Non-violence (ahimsa) with Rajni Bakshi

• Database of non-violence tactics 

• How Nuclear War Happens

• Reducing the risks of nuclear war

• Bernie's belated description of the oligarchy in power [video, Dec 2024]

• A UN-Protectorate in Palestine [proposal by Ingeborg Breines, 2025]

• A New Agenda for Peace – UN Secretary General, July 2023

• Waging Peace (book preview)

• "How societies within peace systems avoid war" [very accessible social research paper]

• Ten principles for perpetual peace

• Tribute to the journalism and films of John Pilger [include links to wonderful films!]

• Earth beyond six of nine planetary boundaries

• Pope Francis on rearmament and war [short impromptu with the press]

• Revealing cartoon on pro-war propaganda (the mechanisms of manufacturing consent) 

• On the concept of positive peace [article by Johan Galtung, 1969]

• The Pugwash Einstein-Russell Manifesto

• Role of traditional elders in peace-building [example] 

• Common Security 2022 (40 years after the Olof Palme Commission's Common Security Report)

• Seville Statement on Violence 1989 (full brochure)

• The Seville Statement on Violence (summary text)

• Trauma as a weapon of war

• Smoke Screen: how states are using the war in Ukraine to drive a new arms race

• 1999 UN Declaration and Program of Action for a Culture of Peace

• UN Secretary General Disarmament Agenda

• UN Secretary General new Agenda for Peace 

• UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

• Testimony at the UN Security Council Meeting [by Jeffrey Sachs] 

• The war you do not see – a great film by John Pilger

• The Greatest Evil is War– by Chris Hedges [interview, the book is highly recommended]

• War is a Racket (full text of a short book by retired Major General S. D. Butler)

• War made invisible (book description)

• War, peace and human nature

• Titans of Capital: How Concentrated Wealth Threatens Humanity 

• Weapons experimentation as part of war

• A well-being approach to peace building

• Women International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)-- 2015 Manifesto