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Stop Wapenhandel (Stop Arms Trade) is a group of independent researchers and activists on arms trade, the arms industry and lobbying. Stop Wapenhandel advocates sustainable security, not based on military power and deterrence but on solving the causes of insecurity.

Stop Wapenhandel is part of the European Network Against Arms Trade (ENAAT) and the Arms, Militarism and Climate Justice working group.

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14 november 2012

English summary: Militarisation of security – Inventory of Dutch companies

Militarisering van security – Een inventarisatie van Nederlandse bedrijven Since 9/11 the security market has grown immensely. On Homeland Security alone the…

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31 oktober 2012

Dutch pension funds boost investments in nuke producers

“Some say nuclear disarmament is utopian… I say the illusion is that nuclear weapons provide security”, said United Nations Secretary General Ban…

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18 oktober 2012

Power fights in the European arms industry

Friedensforum, autumn 2012 by Wendela de Vries — In the same week the Nobel Peace prize was rewarded to the European Union,…

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3 oktober 2012

The unwanted JSF swamp and the new Dutch cabinet

Soon after the 12 September parliamentary elections in the Netherlands the two largest parties, VVD [liberal/conservative] and PvdA [social democrat], started talking…

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14 september 2012

Wedding of the elephants: merger between BAE and EADS in the making

Europe’s two biggest arms companies, British BAE Systems and German/French/Spanish EADS announced that they are negotiating a merger, or an ‘elephants wedding’…

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6 september 2012

Dutch engineers take India’s warship building into “a new era”

Maritime relations between India and the Netherlands have existed since the Dutch East India Company (VOC) was allowed to set up a…

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19 juli 2012

European arms trade, controlled but not restricted

After the United States the European Union is the biggest global arms exporter. Therefore a good European arms export policy will contribute…

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18 juli 2012

Released Dutch arms sales contract reveals special role of Parliament

The normal procedure for arms export licences in the Netherlands is that export officials decide whether to grant one or not, following…

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4 juli 2012

Seeing in the dark

Over the past decades Dutch night vision equipment has been sold to military, police and security forces in dozens of countries across…

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3 juli 2012

Country Report for the ENAAT meeting in Berlin, June 2012

Over the past year we have been busy with a number of issues, with the main ones listed below. Outreach EADS: For…

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