At SWI we undertake pathbreaking investigations into corruption and the arms trade to reveal who is profiting from the neverending cycle of war and hold them to account.
Your donation helps us
- Organize free and low-cost events and publications to educate about the arms trade
- Give free support to journalists, activists and whistleblowers
- Offset essential research costs, including for our next book on who profits from the genocide in Gaza and war in Yemen
- Making sure corruption doesn’t pay by going after stolen money
Learn more below about our how our work makes a change.
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How We Make a Change…
- We investigate and hold to account
- We recently revealed that Keir Starmer’s Labour Party received £4 million from a hedge fund invested in companies that make the F-35 fighter jets. This is the jet used by Israel in airstrikes on Gaza, including on a humanitarian zone, that the Labour government has chosen to exempt from its arms export ban. We reveal and highlight extensive information on corruption in the arms trade. We actively pursue routes of legal and public accountability, particularly through strategic litigation and People’s Tribunals. We lend our expertise to support journalists and whistleblowers and to defend arrested activists.
- We help ignite movements
- We use our work and methods actively to empower individuals and communities to take action, and we amplify the work of others in doing so. For example, our latest book Monstrous Anger of the Guns: How the Global Arms Trade is Ruining the World and What We Can Do About It showcases diverse ways communities have taken action against the arms trade: we are now doing several events a week to share these campaigns with as many people as possible!
- We advocate for change
- Preventing harm from the joint ills of militarism and corruption will require broad global transformation. But we are also exerting pressure in the here and now. Our work has been part of the campaign that achieved a partial ban on arms export licenses to Israel – and we are now working to push that ban further. We also continue to draw attention to the “forgotten” war in Yemen and contribute to accountability for those affected by the complicity of western governments