Today, we had a group session about human security and how military spending relates to development aid. Basically we argued that military spending is not all bad and that it can certainly improve human- and national security. However, it takes more to reach an acceptable standard of human security, for example spending money on internal security or recieving the right kind of development aid. It also greatly depends on what sort of country you are talking about. A developing country could benefit a lot from more spending on social equality while a more developed country could benefit more from spending money on the police force. In the end, military spending can be a good thing, but it should never get out of proportion.
A subject like this becomes more interesting if you can look at it from the perspective of different countries and therefore it was great to talk about it with people with a lot of different nationalities.
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