Emma Sangster

Emma Sangster is the Coordinator of the UK-based organisation Forces Watch. Its current projects include challenging the involvement of the military in education, advocating for raising the recruitment age to 18 and observing and responding to ways in which the military is being promoted as a normal part of everyday life.

The creep of militarism into our civil institutions

A new wave of militarism seeks to embed military values throughout society to shore up the public's growing hostility to Britain's armed thuggery around the world.

By Emma Sangster

/ 28 Jun 2014

Militarising Education

The incursion of the military into the British education system will mean that alternatives to war and peaceful ways of resolving conflict will be more difficult for young people to explore. In the long term we will all pay a heavy price, says Emma Sangster.

By Emma Sangster

/ 27 Nov 2012