We are planning many projects designed to educate people and government officials about the full spectrum of the costs of war on every level. We will use these projects to promote peace and peacebuilding over militarism.
One project is to produce films on the human, societal and financial costs of the post-9.11 wars. The films will also enlighten people about effective conflict prevention and conflict resolution that avoids war. The films will be comprehensive, objective and scholarly. They will be offered as a public service, free to all audiences.
An overview: The costs of war, and the need for peacebuilding
Costs of the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq
By the Costs of War Project of Brown University
Over 480,000
PEOPLE
have died due to direct war violence, and many times more indirectly due to malnutrition, damaged infrastructure and environmental degradation.
244,000
CIVILIANS
have been killed as a result of the fighting at the hands of all parties to the conflict
21
MILLION
war refugees and displaced persons
What the United States Institute of Peace is doing to help
