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Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) is a UK-based NGO and campaigning organisation working towards the abolition of the international arms trade. Founded in 1974 by a broad coalition of peace groups, CAAT believes that the arms business has a devastating impact on human rights and security, and damages economic development and that large scale military procurement and arms exports only reinforce a militaristic approach to international problems. In seeking to end the arms trade, CAAT's priorities are: • to stop the procurement or export of arms where they might: exacerbate conflict, support aggression, or increase tension; support an oppressive regime or undermine democracy; threaten social welfare through the level of military spending • to end all government political and financial support for arms exports • and to promote progressive demilitarisation within arms-producing countries. CAAT has been involved in several high profile campaigns, particularly its legal challenge against the Serious Fraud Office's decision to suspend a corruption investigation into BAE Systems in 2007. On 27 September 2012, it was honoured with a Right Livelihood Award for its "innovative and effective campaigning". ==Research== CAAT's campaigns are founded on a programme of detailed research into the arms trade and arms companies, and their relationship with the UK government and military, through political, financial and military support. The focus is on arms exports, although CAAT recognises that there is a close relationship with military procurement. CAAT research places particular emphasis on debunking myths and exposing hidden features of the arms trade. One of the most common myths is that the arms industry is responsible for large numbers of high-quality jobs. CAAT research demonstrates that this is not the case, that the number of jobs in arms exports has decreased consistently over the years and continues to do so. In 2012, arms trade jobs employed only 0.2% of the total UK workforce and comprised less than 1.2% of UK exports. CAAT argues that the valuable engineering skills of arms industry workers could be redeployed in the growing renewables industry. CAAT also researches into the large government subsidies given to the arms industry, largely through government research and development (R&D) but also through export credits, government promotion and military attaches. In 2011, it commissioned the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) to calculate the costs of these subsidies - the figure it arrived at was £698 million annually.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.caat.org.uk/resources/publications/economics/subsidies-sipri-2011.pdf )〕 Over the years, CAAT has published a number of briefings on the arms trade, including ''An introduction to the Arms Trade - An introduction to the impact of the arms trade, how it works, and the main justifications for the arms trade'' (latest edition April 2011) and ''Private gain, public pain - The case for ending the Government's arms selling and shutting the UKTI's Defence & Security Organisation'' (May 2010), both of which are accessible via CAAT website. CAAT also publishes a quarterly magazine, ''CAATnews'', which is sent to supporters. CAAT website contains a huge amount of information about the arms trade, arms companies and campaigning material. A new addition is an Arms Trade App, a web app which reveals in an accessible format the details of UK "strategic export" licences, including military equipment, issued by the (Export Control Organisation ) of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. The app makes previously difficult or inaccessible information available to public view and CAAT sees it as a valuable campaigning tool in helping to hold the government to account. In 2013, in collaboration with the (European Network Against Arms Trade ) (ENAAT), CAAT launched an (European Union (EU) Arms Export Browser ) which breaks down the complex data in the EU annual reports on arms exports in an accessible manner, by year, supplier country, destination country and types of military hardware. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Campaign Against Arms Trade」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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