Tag: SIPRI

Multilateral peace operations in Afghanistan between 2001 and 2021 (Claudia Pfeifer, Jaïr van der Lijn, SIPRI)

Four multilateral peace operations were deployed in Afghanistan during the 20 years between the start of the United States-led intervention that toppled the Taliban...

Afghanistan. Transfers of major arms to Afghanistan between 2001 and 2020 (Siemon T. Wezeman and Alexandra Kuimova, SIPRI)

Afghan National Army (ANA) students remove the turret on a US-supplied ASV-150/M-1117 armoured vehicle as part of maintenance training, 2013. Photo: Wikimedia Commons/SGT Kent...

North Korea. Implications of the reported new activity at North Korea’s Yongbyon nuclear complex (Robert E. Kelley, SIPRI)

Satellite image of the Yongbyon complex. Source: Google, Imagery © CNES / Airbus, Maxar Technologies The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reported on Friday its conclusion that...

Social Media. A tool for peace or conflict? (SIPRI)

Simone Bunse Human rights activists have used social media technology to organize peaceful protests and defend democracy for more than a decade. More recently, peacebuilders...

(UK/Military Expenditure) Reassessing SIPRI’s military expenditure estimate for the United Kingdom (SIPRI)

Dr Nan Tian and Dr Lucie Béraud-Sudreau In November 2020, in the midst of the ‘second wave’ of COVID-19 and despite a projected 10.4 per cent decrease in...