{"id":700,"date":"2017-11-08T07:12:45","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T07:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/?p=700"},"modified":"2017-11-08T07:12:45","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T07:12:45","slug":"scientists-for-global-responsibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/11\/scientists-for-global-responsibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists for Global Responsibility"},"content":{"rendered":"

At some time in 2016, for rather convoluted reasons to do with supporting the Peace Tax Seven<\/a>,\u00a0 I started getting emails from a Scientists for Global Responsibility (SGR) mailing list.\u00a0 Today’s was a job ad for them.\u00a0 I can’t apply because I don’t have the essentials in the person spec., but their web site<\/a> is interesting.<\/p>\n

The ethics around the technology developments required of modern warfare are a major part of their raison d’etre<\/a><\/span>, and they were formed from peace groups merging<\/a>.\u00a0 They are affiliated with a number of peace organisations<\/a>, each of which I need to investigate as both sources of information and as potential employers.\u00a0 They are concerned about the military influence on science and technology research<\/a>.\u00a0 They have information booklets on ethical careers<\/a>.\u00a0 They have a list of potential ethical employers in the peace sector<\/a>.\u00a0 They have resources on security and disarmament<\/a>.\u00a0 They produce reports and briefings including security<\/a>.\u00a0 They have dozens of newsletters<\/a> I need to go through.<\/p>\n

I have joined their mailing list proper.\u00a0 I have joined their LinkedIn group<\/a>.\u00a0 Today I post my membership off to them.<\/p>\n

Their Wikipedia page<\/a> is a bit thin.\u00a0 Here’s someone else’s words about them<\/a>.<\/p>\n

They do get articles published like this one in the Guardian<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I firmly expect a bunch of committed scientists can provide me with loads of data for evidence-based peace.<\/p>\n

I had not heard of SGR before – this highlights the problem I found at the start in 2012: where is the peace industry? The arms industry has a fantastically high profile, the peace industry is barely mentioned other than to criticise white poppies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At some time in 2016, for rather convoluted reasons to do with supporting the Peace Tax Seven,\u00a0 I started getting emails from a Scientists for Global Responsibility (SGR) mailing list.\u00a0 Today’s was a job ad for them.\u00a0 I can’t apply … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,199,64,173,248],"tags":[110,201,65,174,249],"class_list":["post-700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alternatives","category-career","category-employment","category-evidence-based-peace","category-scientists-for-global-responsibility","tag-alternatives","tag-career","tag-employment","tag-evidence-based-peace","tag-scientists-for-global-responsibility"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":701,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions\/701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}