Booklaunch: 'Sowing Seeds: The Militarisation of Youth and How to Counter It'

Join us for the launch of 'Sowing Seeds: The Militarisation Of Youth And How To Counter It' at Housmans Bookshop. Through articles, images, survey data and interviews, this book explores the ways in which young people around the world encounter the military and military values - and are encouraged to embrace them uncritically - and how this can be challenged. The event will include speakers from the UK, Turkey and Israel, who will tell us how the military and military values infiltrate young peoples' lives in those countries, followed by a period of discussion and debate. Refreshments provided. More info and how to find Housmans here: www.housmans.com/events.php You can buy your copy of the book here.

Speakers include:

• David Gee, ForcesWatch, author of 'One Step Forward: The case for ending recruitment of minors by the British armed forces': http://www.forceswatch.net/content/one-step-forward-case-ending-recruit…
• Maayan Niezna, New Profile, on the miltiarisation of young people in Israel

• Özgür Heval Çınar, Writer, Researcher, one of the editors of 'Conscientious Objection: Resisting Militarized Society', on the militarisation of youth in Turkey

Details

• Date: Thursday 13th June
• Time: 7pm
• Location: Housmans Radical Bookshop, London
• Free entry

---------------------------------------------------------- This publication is the next stage in our project Countering the Militarisation of Youth. Take a look at what else we have been up to here: http://www.wri-irg.org/programmes/militarisationofyouth