Militarisation in Australia: Normalisation and Mythology

Over the last 106 years the Women’s International League for Freedom (WILPF) has advocated for universal disarmament and worked to build peace across the globe. It has been evident that for many years it is not enough to just talk about militarisation, but that it must be systematically unpacked to highlight the multi-layered processes, linkages and underlying roots, which underpin its legitimacy, normalisation and mythology, and to understand how and why militarisation gains acceptance and popularity.