Impact Trust • Working glossary
Dual use
Designing investments to serve both military/security and civilian resilience purposes.
Details
Our Take
Growing in policy relevance as defence budgets rise and humanitarian budgets shrink. Every investment should 'work the double sidedness.' Practical advocacy tool for humanitarian diplomacy -- the case that resilience investment serves both civilian and security objectives.
Examples of Use
Military/defence, Kirsten Dunlop, Indy Johar / Dark Matter Labs
Synonyms/Variants
Double dividend; Peace dividend (older, related); Co-benefit investment
Typical everyday wording
Making defence spending also build civilian resilience
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