IPPNW-GLO Co-Hosted Conflict, Militarism and Health – An Agenda for Action, moderated by Sir Andrew Haines and featuring IPPNW Co-President, Carlos Umaña in October.
The session focused on four areas:
1. The link between militarism, climate change and health, including: Climate change as a driver for conflict; Impact of conflict on climate change; Direct and indirect effects of war and climate change on health.
2. The enormous cost of war and diversion of resources to fuel it. The diversion of resources (including financial, human, intellectual, opportunity costs) impoverishes our abilities to address significant health problems and the ability to successfully address and resolve them.
3. The case for the development of a global conflict-health index to monitor progress.
4. The increasing and urgent need for the prevention of conflict in general and nuclear war in particular, stressing the potential catastrophic impact on health outcomes.
You can watch the full session by clicking here.