Solutions to Violence | Dr. Miriam Pemberton | Peace Economy Transitions Project | 7-3-23

Dr. Miriam Pemberton is an Associate Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies of Brown University. She formally directed its Peace Economy Transitions Project, focusing on helping to build the foundations of a postwar economy at the federal, state and local levels. She has studied the U.S. military economy and the means of shrinking it down to size for decades, first as Director of the National Commission for Economic Conversion and Disarmament and then as a Research Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and as an Associate Fellow, she has published Six Stops on the National Security Tour: Rethinking Warfare Economies (Routledge, 2022). With Lawrence Korb, she headed the annual Task Force on “A Unified Security Budget for the United States,” which examined the balance of spending on military and non-military security tools and argued for a rebalanced security budget. She also headed a team that produced three “Military vs. Climate Security” reports comparing federal spending on the two security domains and arguing for a shift of security resources toward mitigating climate change.