Monday 20 January 2014

Security and International Relations Programme Seminar: The Economics of Killing

"The Economics of Killing".
 
 
 
 
Vijay Mehta chair of Uniting for Peace and Founding Trustee ofFortune Forum Charity.
23rd January 18:00, Westminster Forum, 5thFloor, 32-38 Wells Street.
 
Abstract
Globalisation has created an interconnected world, but has not diminished violence, militarism and inequality. The Economics of Killing describes how the power of global elites, entrenched under globalisation, has created a deadly cycle of violence.

Vijay Mehta shows how attempts at peaceful national development are routinely blocked by Western powers. He locates the 2008 financial crisis in US attempts to block China's model of development. He shows how Europe and the US conspire with regional dictators to prevent countries from developing advanced industries, and how this system has fed terrorism.


Mehta argues that a different world is possible, based on policies of disarmament, demilitarisation and sustainable development.
Bio:
Vijay Mehtas books include The Economics of Killing (2012), The Fortune Forum Code: For a Sustainable Future (2006), Arms No More (2005) and The United Nations and its Future in the 21st Century (2005).
He has appeared in various TV programmes including BBC World, Press TV, Ajtak-24 hour Indian news channel, and Think Peace documentary, Canada, among others. Vijay Mehta is the recipient of the Global Indian Karmaveer (Action hero) Puraskaar (Award) by iCONGO (International Confederation of NGO’s). He is now a noble-laureate 2012 – 2013 of the iCONGO team of advisors and mentors. Vijay has been appointed as a fellow of the New Westminster College, Province of British Columbia, Canada in 2013.
Vijay Mehtas new book The Economics of Killing: How the West Fuels Wars and Poverty in the Developing World is published by Pluto Press (UK) / Palgrave Macmillan (USA) / Amazon (Worldwide). For reviews and endorsements of the book, please visit: www.theeconomicsofkilling.org
Vijay.a long standing activist for peace, development, human rights and environment
The Sunday Times Magazine, London 1st February, 2009
Vijay Mehta lends intellectual credibility to the project and wrote The Fortune Forum Code for a Sustainable Future, a sort of manifesto that will underpin the groups future activities.
The Independent, London 26 September 2006