Description
Join Jeremy Corbyn and Professor Paul Rogers for a timely and thought-provoking conversation on the global arms race.
As former leader of the Labour Party, Corbyn brings a lifelong commitment to peace and disarmament, while Rogers draws on decades of experience as a leading expert in international security and peace studies. Together, they explore the political and ethical implications of rising global military spending and arms proliferation.
With insight shaped by research and activism, this event offers a compelling call to rethink global security and consider more just, peaceful alternatives in an increasingly weaponised world.
About the Speakers
Jeremy Corbyn
Jeremy Corbyn was first elected to parliament in 1983 and continues to represent Islington North, and served as Leader of Her Majesty’s Official Opposition from September 2015 to April 2020. Corbyn spends a great deal of time and energy focussed on anti-racism, anti imperialism, LGBT+ rights, transport, the environment, opposition to nuclear weapons and military intervention, Trade Union policies, Miscarriages of Justice and more. In parliament he served on the Social Security Committee (1992-2007), the London Regional Select Committee (2009-2010) and the Justice Committee (2011-2015) and was awarded the 2017 Sean McBride Peace Prize and before that (2013) the Gandhi International Peace Award. He is currently a member of the Parliamentary Assembly for the Council of Europe, the UK Socialist Campaign Group, and a regular participant at the United Nations Human Rights Council (Geneva), Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (Vice President), and Chagos Islands All Party Parliamentary Group (Honorary President), and a Vice president of the British Group Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU).
Professor Paul Rogers
Paul Rogers is Emeritus Professor of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford, and an Honorary Fellow of the UK Defence Academy. He is a biologist by original training, lecturing at Imperial College and also working in tropical crop research in East Africa. From later lecturing in environmental science, he moved to Bradford in 1979 and has worked primarily on the changing causes of international conflict, especially in relation to political violence. A fourth edition of his book, Losing Control: Global Security in the 21st Century, was published by Pluto Press last July.
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