Military vehicles (MRAPs) being produced in a Charleston, SC factory (Photo: New York Times)

IPS Associate Fellow, Miriam Pemberton will give a lecture on “Demilitarizing the Economy,” examining how the U.S. militarized economy was created, where it is now, and how to change course.

Miriam Pemberton is a former Research Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies and now an Associate Fellow. She directed IPS’s Peace Economy Transitions Project which focuses on helping to build the foundations of a postwar economy at the federal, state and local levels. She co-chairs the Budget Priorities Working Group, the principal information-sharing collaboration of U.S. NGOs working on reducing Pentagon spending.