Edinburgh Peace and Justice Resource Centre

Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) was set up in 1974 by a number of peace and other organisations who were concerned about the growth in the arms trade following the Middle East war of 1973. It is a broad coalition of groups and individuals in the UK working to end the international arms trade. This Trade has a negative effect on human rights and security as well as on global, regional and local economic development.

In seeking to end it CAAT's priorities are to:

end government subsidies and support for arms exports;
end exports to oppressive regimes;
end exports to countries involved in an armed conflict or region of tension;
end exports to countries whose social welfare is threatened by military spending;
support measures, both in the UK and internationally, which will regulate and reduce the arms trade and lead to its eventual end.