Diminuir as despesas militares e impulsionar o desenvolvimento humano: argumentos contidos nos relatórios publicados entre 2006 e 2014 do PNUD/ONU

Abstract

In 20 Human Development Reports (HDRs) already published there are hundreds of diagnoses and prescriptions. There are many attempts to indicate ways for the implementation and expansion of actions and procedures in areas involving education, health, environment, sanitation, adequate housing, among others. Through documentary research, we seek to understand the social and political significance of the defense, on the part of the authors and those who took over these materials edited from 2006, of choices and decisions rationally oriented both to reduce military spending and to use such saved funds in the implementation of human development. From a theoretical and methodological perspective that assumes the need to make a historical context of narratives and arguments for the reduction of military expenditure, it appears that the reports, although they do not have elements for a substantive critique of militarized tradition that supports the nation states, suggest a decrease in the resources addressed to military sectors, since there is a chronic lack of funds in those areas that could lead to the implementation of the global agreements in favor of human development.