During the run up to the war in Iraq a group of prominent leaders in economics openly questioned the Bush administration’s policy in the middle east. Recognizing that they spoke more convincingly as a group rather than as individuals these scholars founded ECAAR to advocate for world peace and reductions in the world’s arsenals.
Since then we’ve seen no reason to curtail our operations. If anything, voices urging peace and arms reduction are more urgently needed now, and so our work continues. Today ECAAR provides research into how arms reduction impacts the global economy. Fearing the instability stemming from continued hostilities in the middle east, ECAAR projects continued economic hardship in the United States as a result.
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As of 2007, ECAAR changed its name to Economists for Peace and Security, EPS. Since we reverted to our original name. But our mission remains unchanged: to promote and disseminate research on global security issues. We propose arms reduction as a way of attaining world peace and security.