The Greatest Conspiracy Against Humanity Today: The Triangle of War

Author: Ben Daye

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Resources

You have read the argument. Now go deeper. This page brings together the most serious, credible, and active organisations in the world working to expose the machinery of war and build the conditions for lasting peace.

All organisations listed here are independent. Their inclusion does not imply agreement with every position they hold — it reflects the author’s assessment that their work is serious, evidence-based, and contributes meaningfully to the goals this book advocates.

SECTION 1: The Triangle of War — Investigating the Means

Investigating the Arms Trade and the Military-Industrial Complex

These organisations research, document, and campaign against the international arms trade and the military-industrial networks that sustain it — the means side of the triangle.

Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) 🌐 caat.org.uk

Founded in 1974 by a coalition of peace groups, CAAT is a UK-based organisation working toward the abolition of the international arms trade. It campaigns against arms exports to conflict zones and oppressive regimes, conducts parliamentary advocacy, and publishes detailed research on the relationship between governments and arms manufacturers. CAAT was awarded the Right Livelihood Award — the Alternative Nobel Prize — in 2012 for innovative and effective campaigning against the global arms trade. One of the most rigorous and persistent voices on the means of war in the world today.

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) 🌐 sipri.org

An independent international institute dedicated to research into conflict, armaments, arms control and disarmament. Established in 1966, SIPRI provides data, analysis and recommendations, based on open sources, to policymakers, researchers, media and the interested public. Its annual yearbook on global military expenditure and arms transfers is the most authoritative public dataset in the world on who is spending what on weapons and selling them to whom. Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the scale of the means of war.

Transparency International — Defence and Security 🌐 ti-defence.org

Investigates corruption in defence procurement, military spending, and the arms trade worldwide. Documents the financial relationships between governments and defence contractors that allow the military-industrial complex to operate with minimal accountability. Particularly valuable for understanding how corruption lubricates the means of war at every level.

World Beyond War 🌐 worldbeyondwar.org

Established in 2014, World Beyond War is a leading organisation in the global movement to abolish war. It leads in developing the rational case for war abolition, hosts educational resources, webinars, and conferences, and supports a global network of peace activists in taking nonviolent action to challenge the war system. Closely aligned with the arguments made in this book.

International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA) 🌐 iansa.org

A global network of civil society organisations working to prevent the proliferation and misuse of small arms and light weapons — the weapons most commonly used to sustain conflicts in the developing world. Documents how the flow of small arms from powerful nations directly enables and prolongs conflicts that might otherwise be resolved.

SECTION 2: Investigating the Need — Who Manufactures the Justification?

Exposing Manufactured Consent and the Politics of War

These organisations investigate how the need for war is constructed — through political manipulation, media complicity, propaganda, and the deliberate amplification of grievance.

International Crisis Group 🌐 crisisgroup.org

An independent, non-profit organisation committed to preventing and resolving deadly conflict. Its Crisis Watch database tracks active conflicts and escalating tensions worldwide in real time, and its field researchers produce some of the most detailed and politically honest analysis available of how and why specific conflicts develop. Indispensable for understanding the real dynamics behind wars that are presented to the public in simplified terms.

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace 🌐 carnegieendowment.org

A network of research centres dedicated to peace through analysis and development of policy with government, business, and civil society. Publishes rigorous research on conflict drivers, arms control, and the failures of international diplomacy. Particularly strong on the political and geopolitical dimensions of how wars are justified and sustained.

Center for International Policy 🌐 internationalpolicy.org

A research and advocacy organisation that promotes transparency and accountability in foreign policy and global relations. Focuses specifically on exposing the gap between the public justifications given for military action and the actual political and economic interests being served — directly relevant to the need side of the triangle.

Waging Nonviolence 🌐 wagingnonviolence.org

An independent, non-profit media platform dedicated to providing original reporting and expert analysis of social movements around the world. Covers peace movements, demilitarisation campaigns, and nonviolent resistance with the seriousness that mainstream media rarely applies to these subjects. A vital counter-narrative to the drumbeat of war reporting.

SECTION 3: Investigating the Gains — Who Profits?

Following the Money: Who Benefits from War

These organisations track the financial, political, and strategic gains that accrue to powerful actors when wars are fought and when they end.

Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) 🌐 prio.org

One of the world’s leading peace research institutes, conducting rigorous academic research on the causes and consequences of armed conflict, including the economic and political gains that motivate and sustain it. Publishes the Journal of Peace Research and maintains extensive datasets on armed conflict worldwide.

Global Financial Integrity 🌐 gfintegrity.org

Investigates illicit financial flows — the movement of money across borders through illegal or corrupt means — including the financing of arms deals, war economies, and the extraction of resources from conflict zones. Essential for understanding the financial architecture that enables the gains side of the triangle.

War on Want 🌐 waronwant.org

A UK-based international development organisation that campaigns specifically against the corporate exploitation of conflict — documenting how multinational corporations benefit from instability, resource extraction, and the privatisation of reconstruction in post-war zones. Connects the triangle of war directly to global economic inequality.

SECTION 4: Building the Alternative — Universal Peace and International Law

Organisations Working Toward a Universal Framework for Peace

These are the organisations most aligned with this book’s central demand — the construction of a universal, binding, and enforced international framework that prevents the triangle of war from forming.

International Peace Bureau (IPB) 🌐 ipb.org

A historic pacifist organisation that operates as a global network of over 300 organisations in 70 countries dedicated to building a world without war. Their efforts focus mainly on disarmament, specifically on the reallocation of military expenditure towards social projects that promote real human needs and protect the environment. Fourteen of IPB’s current and past members have been recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize, and they won the prize as an organisation in 1910. The oldest and most decorated peace network in the world.

War Resisters’ International (WRI) 🌐 wri-irg.org

A global pacifist and antimilitarist network dedicated to building a world without war. At their founding in 1921, a declaration was made that guides their work: “War is a crime against humanity. I am therefore determined not to support any kind of war, and to strive for the removal of all causes of war.” In their network they have over 90 affiliated groups in 40 countries.

International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR) 🌐 ifor.org

Established in 1914 in response to the atrocities of war in Europe, IFOR is a global network of people and groups of conscience that oppose war and militarism. With a background of faith-based peace activism, IFOR works through a global network that now spans 71 branches, groups, and affiliates in 48 countries across all continents. One of the longest-standing international peace networks in existence.

Pax Christi International 🌐 paxchristi.net

A Catholic peace movement with 120 member organisations worldwide that promotes peace, respect of human rights, justice and reconciliation throughout the world. Advocates for disarmament, the abolition of nuclear weapons, and the strengthening of international law as an alternative to military force. Global in reach and long-standing in credibility.

International Peace Institute (IPI) 🌐 ipinst.org

An independent, international not-for-profit think tank dedicated to promoting the prevention and settlement of conflicts between and within states by strengthening institutions. Works closely with the United Nations and focuses specifically on the institutional architecture needed to make international peace sustainable — highly relevant to this book’s call for a universal war prevention tribunal.

Veterans for Peace 🌐 veteransforpeace.org

A network comprised of over 140 chapters worldwide whose work includes educating the public, advocating for a dismantling of the war economy, providing services that assist veterans and victims of war, and most significantly, working to end all wars. Uniquely powerful because its members speak from direct experience of what war actually is — as opposed to what it is sold as.

American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) 🌐 afsc.org

Founded in 1917, the American Friends Service Committee is a Quaker organisation that promotes lasting peace with justice, as a practical expression of faith in action. Works on demilitarisation, conscientious objection, and the root causes of conflict including economic inequality and political repression. One of the oldest continuously operating peace organisations in the world.

SECTION 5: Research and Data

Key Databases and Research Tools

For readers who want to go further into the evidence — the data behind the arguments in this book.

Resource	What It Offers	URL
SIPRI Military Expenditure Database	Annual military spending by every country in the world	sipri.org/databases/milex
SIPRI Arms Transfers Database	All major arms transfers between nations since 1950	sipri.org/databases/armstransfers
ACLED (Armed Conflict Location & Event Data)	Real-time data on conflicts, protests and political violence worldwide	acleddata.com
Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP)	The world’s main provider of data on organised violence	ucdp.uu.se
Global Peace Index (IEP)	Annual ranking of 163 nations by level of peacefulness	visionofhumanity.org
UN Peacebuilding Support Office	UN resources on conflict prevention and peacebuilding	un.org/peacebuilding

SECTION 6: Recommended Reading

Books That Shaped This Investigation

These are among the most important books ever written on the machinery of war, the arms trade, and the possibility of peace. They form the intellectual foundation on which this investigation is built.

A full bibliography with academic citations is provided at the end of the book.

Andrew Feinstein — The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade
Smedley Butler — War Is a Racket (available free online — written by a two-time Medal of Honor recipient)
John Perkins — Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
Naomi Klein — The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
David Vine — The United States of War
William Blum — Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II
Johan Galtung — Transcend and Transform: An Introduction to Conflict Work

CLOSING CALL TO ACTION

Knowledge Is the Beginning. Action Is the Point.

Every organisation listed on this page is doing work that matters. Many of them depend on public support — financial, political, and in terms of visibility. Visit their sites. Subscribe to their newsletters. Share their work. Donate if you can.

And when you are ready to take the next step — to demand from your own government the universal war prevention framework this book advocates — visit our Take Action page.