Bibliography

Last Updated: December 17, 2008

Academic resources

Berdal, Mats R. Disarmament and Demobilization after Civil Wars, Soldiers and the Termination of Armed Conflicts. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Bourne, Mike. Arming Conflict: The Proliferation of Small Arms. Houndsmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Boutwell, Jeffrey and Michael T. Klare. "Light Weapons and Civil Conflict: Controlling the Tools of Violence." Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 52, no. 4 (March 1999): 20-24.

Boutwell, Jeffrey and Michael Klare. Light Weapons and Civil Conflict: Controlling the Tools of Violence. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1999.

Brauer, Jurgen and Robert Muggah. "Completing the Circle: Building a Theory of Small Arms Demand." Contemporary Security Policy 27, no. 1 (2006).

Cock, Jacklyn. "Fixing Our Sights: A Sociological Perspective on Gun Violence in Contemporary South Africa." Society in Transition 28, nos. 1-4 (1997): 70-81.

Collier, Paul. "Demobilization and Insecurity: A Study in the Economics of the Transition from War to Peace." Journal of International Development 6, no. 3 (1994): 343-351.

Coupland, R.M. and David Meddings. "Mortality Associated with the Use of Weapons in Armed Conflicts, Wartime Atrocities, and Civilian Mass Shootings: Literature Reviews." British Journal of Medicine (14 August 1999): 407-410.

Craft, Cassady and Joseph P. Smaldone. "The Arms Trade and the Incidence of Political Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1967-97." Journal of Peace Research 39, no. 6 (November 2002): 693-710.

Cukier, Wendy. "Small Arms and Light Weapons: A Public Health Approach." The Brown Journal of World Affairs 9, no. 1 (2002): 261-280.

de Waal, Alex. "Post-conflict demilitarization." In Demilitarizing the Mind: African Agendas for Peace and Security, edited by Alex de Waal and Justice Africa. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2002.

Farr, Vanessa. "The New War Zone: The Ubiquitous Presence of Guns and Light Weapons Has Changed the Definitions of War, Victim and Perpetrator." The Women's Review of Books 21, no. 5, Women, War and Peace (February 2004): 16.

Fleisher, Michael L. "Cattle Raiding and Household Demography among The Kuria of Tanzania." Africa: Journal of the International African Institute 69, no. 2 (1999): 238- 255.

Fleisher, Michael L. "'Sungusungu': State-Sponsored Village Vigilante Groups Among the Kuria of Tanzania." Africa: Journal of the International African Institute 70, no. 2 (2000): 209-228.

Frey, Barbara A. "Small Arms and Light Weapons: The Tools Used to Violate Human Rights." Human Rights, Human Security, and Disarmament 3 (2004): 38.

Gebrewold, Kiflemariam. "The Relationship between Human Security, Demand for Arms and Disarmament in the Horn of Africa." Medicine, Conflict and Survival 18, no. 4 (2002): 400-406.

Gibbs, Sara. "Postwar Social Reconstruction in Mozambique: Reframing Childrens Experiences of Trauma and Healing." In Rebuilding Societies after Civil War, ed. Krishna Kumar. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1997: 227-38.

Gillard, Emanuel-Chiara. "What's Legal? What's Illegal?" In Running Guns: The Global Black Market in Small Arms, ed. Lora Lumpe. London: Zed Books Ltd, 2000.

Grillot, Suzette and Craig Stapley. "The Arms of Terrorists: The Spread of Light Weapons and Terrorist Violence." Paper for the annual International Studies Association convention, 2008.

Hampson, Fen Osler with Jean Daudelin, John B. Hay, Todd Martin and Holly Reid. Madness in the Multitude: Human Security and World Disorder. London: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Hartung, William and Rachel Stohl. Hired Guns. Foreign Policy 142 (2004): 28-29.

Heald, Suzette. "Agricultural Intensification and the Decline of Pastoralism: A Case Study from Kenya." Africa: Journal of the International African Institute 69, no. 2 (1999): 213-237.

Hobbes, Thomas. The Leviathan, edited by Edwin Curley. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc, 1995.

Honwana, Alcinda. "Children of War: Understandings of War and War Cleansing in Mozambique and Angola." In Civilians in War, ed. Simon Chesterman. New York: Lynne Rienner, 2001.

Hubert, Don. "The Landmine Ban: A Case Study in Humanitarian Advocacy." Occasional Paper 42. Providence: Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute for International Studies, 2000.

Karp, Aaron. "Small Arms: Back to the Future." The Brown Journal of World Affairs 9, no. 1 (2002): 180-81.

Kinsella, David. "The Black Market in Small Arms: Examining a Social Network." Contemporary Security Policy 27, no. 1 (2006).

Klare, Michael, T. "The Arms Trade in The 1990s: Changing Patterns, Rising Dangers." Third World Quarterly 17, no. 5 (December 1996): 857-874.

Klare, Michael. "Light Weapons Diffusion and Global Violence in the Post-Cold War." In Light Weapons and International Security, ed. Jasjit Singh. London: BASIC, 1995.

Krause, Keith. "Peace, Security and Development in Post-Conflict Environments." Security Dialogue 36, no. 4 (2005): 447-462.

Krause, Keith. "Small Arms and Light Weapons: Proliferation Processes and Policy Options." Paper prepared for the International Security Research and Outreach Programme, International Security Bureau, July 2000.

Lumpe, Lora, ed.  Running Guns: The Global Black Market in Small Arms. London: Zed Books Ltd, 2000.

MacFarlane, S. Neil and Yuen Foong Khong. Human Security and the UN: A Critical History. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006.

Marsh, Nicholas. "Conflict Specific Capital: The Role of Weapons Acquisition in Civil War." International Studies Perspectives 8, no. 1 (2007): 54-72.

Meddings, David. "The Use of Epidemiological Methods in Assessing the Impact of War and Armed Conflict." In Researching Violently Divided Societies: Ethical and Methodological Issues, edited by Marie Smyth and Gillian Robinson. London: Pluto Press Inc., 2001.

Muggah, Robert. "Diagnosing Demand: Assessing the Motivations and Means for Firearms acquisition in the Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea." The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, State, Society and Governance in Melanesia, Discussion Papers 2004/7

Nelson, Carol. "Women and Disarmament: What can be learnt from conflicts in Solomon Islands, Bougainville and PNG?" Presented at the In the Right Hands Seminar, 21-24 February 2006.

Pouligny, Béatrice. Peace Operations Seen from Below: UN Missions and Local People. London: C. Hurst & Co., 2006.

Rotberg, Robert I.  "The Failure and Collapse of Nation-States: Breakdown, Prevention and Repair." In When States Fail: Causes and Consequences, edited by Robert Rotberg. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004.

Sislin, John and Fred Pearson. "Arms and Escalation in Ethnic Conflicts: The Case of Sri Lanka." International Studies Perspectives 7 (2006): 137-158.

Sislin, John and Fred Pearson. Arms and Ethnic Conflict. Boulder: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001.

Sislin, John, Fred Pearson, Jocelyn Boryczka, and Jeffrey Weigand. "Patterns in Arms Acquisitions by Ethnopolitical Groups in Conflict." Security Dialogue 29 (1998):393-408.

Stohl, Rachel. "Targeting Children: Small Arms and Children in Conflict." The Brown Journal of World Affairs 9, no. 1 (2002): 282.

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West, Harry G. "Creative Destruction and Sorcery of Construction: Power, Hope and Suspicion in Post-war Mozambique." Cahiers dEtudes Africaines 37, no. 147 (1997): 657-98.

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News and reports

Global Policy Forum. "Arms Continue to Flow into Darfur, Security Council Expert Panel Finds." UN News, October 10, 2007.

Global Policy Forum. "Small Arms: The Real Weapons of Mass Destruction." Integrated Regional Information Networks, May 2006.

Godoy, Julio. "Development and Security in Exchange for Small Arms." Inter Press Service, November 28, 2007.

Max, Arthur. "Arms Dealer Bust Embargoes With Impunity." Forbes, June 11, 2006.

Prusher, Ilene. "UN Aims to Disarm Afghan Fighters," Christian Science Monitor, December 2, 2003.

Rivière, Philippe. "Small Arms Cover Up: The Problem of Proliferation." Le Monde Diplomatique, January 2001.

United Nations. "DR Congo: Security Council Extends Arms Embargo and Monitoring Group." UN News Centre, March 31, 2008.

Wood, Brian. "A Dirty Trade in Arms." Le Monde Diplomatique, June 2006

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Policy analysis and practitioner documents

Alba, Luis Alfonso de. "A Regional Perspective on the Problem of Small Arms and Light Weapons." UNIDIR Disarmament Forum 2 (2002): 49-52.

Amnesty International USA. "The Lord of Wars: Small Arms and Human Rights." Amnesty International USA (2008).

Ashtakala, Tara. "Update on the Small Arms Situation in South Asia." South Asia Partnership, Canada, October 15, 2003.

Atwood, David, Anne-Kathrin Glatz, and Robert Muggah. "Demanding Attention: Addressing The Dynamics of Small Arms Demand." Occasional Paper 18. Geneva: Small Arms Survey, 2006.

Batchelor, Peter and Robert Muggah. Development Held Hostage: Assessing the Effects of Small Arms on Human Development. New York: United Nations Development Program, 2002.

Beasley, Ryan, Cate Buchanan and Robert Muggah. In the Line of Fire: Surveying the Perceptions of Humanitarian and Development Personnel of the Impacts of Small Arms and Light Weapons. Geneva: Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue and Small Arms Survey, 2003.

Buchanan, Cate and Robert Muggah. No Relief: Surveying the Effects of Gun Violence on Humanitarian Aid and Development Personnel. Geneva: Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, 2005.

Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue. Missing Pieces: Directions for Reducing Armed Violence through the UN Process on Small Arms Control. Geneva: CHD, 2005.

Control Arms, "UN Arms Embargoes: An Overview of the Last Ten Years." Control Arms Briefing Note. Amnesty International, Oxfam international, and International Action Network in Small Arms, March 16, 2006.

Cross, Peter, Rick de Caris, Ettienne Hennop and Angus Urquhart. The Law of the Gun: An Audit of Firearms Legislation in the SADC Region. London and Pretoria: SaferAfrica and SaferWorld, June 2003.

Crowley, Michael, Roy Isbister and Sarah Meek. "Building Comprehensive Controls on Small Arms Manufacturing, Transfer and End-Use." Briefing 13. London and Washington, DC: BASIC, International Alert, and Saferworld, 2002.

Dreyfus, Pablo and Antônio Rangel Bandeira. "Watching The Neighborhood: An Assessment of Small Arms and Ammunition: Grey Transactions on The Borders Between Brazil and Paraguay, Bolivia, Uruguay and Argentina." Working Document No 2, Small Arms Control Project, Viva Rio, 2005.

Dye, Dominique. "Addressing The Demand-Side of SALW Proliferation." Arms Control: Africa1, no. 2 (April 2008): 9-10.

Fitzpatrick, Christopher. "The Economics of Small Arms Demand: Polarization and Rent-seeing in Haiti and Latin America." Paper 51. Bonn: Bonn International Center for Conversion, 2006.

Fruchart, Damien, Paul Holtom, Siemon T. Wezeman, Daniel Strandow and Peter Wallensteen. "United Nations Arms Embargoes Their Impact on Arms Flows and Target Behavior." Sweden: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, 2007.

Gebre-Wold, Kiflemariam. "Understanding the Demand for Small Arms in the Horn of Africa." In Brief 23: Small Arms in the Horn of Africa: Challenges, Issues and Perspectives, edited by Kiflemariam Gebre-Wold and Isabelle Masson. Bonn: Bonn International Center for Conversion, March 2002.

Greene, Owen. "Stockpile Security and Reducing Surplus Weapons." Briefing 3. London and Washington, DC: BASIC, International Alert, and Saferworld, 2000.

Gunaratna, Rohan. "Terrorism and Small Arms and Light Weapons." In Terrorism and Disarmament, UN Department for Disarmament Affairs Occasional Paper 5 (2001).

Hennop, Ettienne. "Small Arms and Light Weapons Destruction in Africa." PaxAfrica 3, no.1 (February-May 2006): 24-26.

Human Rights Watch. "Controlling the Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons-Licit or Illicit-Is a Human Rights Imperative." Statement, Second Meeting of the Preparatory Committee for the UN Conference on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects, New York, January 18, 2001.

Human Rights Watch. Playing with Fire: Weapons Proliferation, Political Violence, and Human Rights in Kenya. New York: HRW, May 2002.

Hussain, Neila. "Proliferation of Small Arms and Politics in South Asia: The Case of Bangladesh." Regional Centre for Strategic Studies, May 1999.

Institute for Security Studies. "Demobilization, Disarmament and Reintegration (DDR)." Pretoria: Institute for Security Studies.

International Committee for the Red Cross. Arms Availability and the Situation of Civilians in Armed Conflict. Geneva: ICRC, 1999.

Jackman, David. "Lessening the Demand for Small Arms and Light Weapons: Summary of the International Workshops 1999-2002." Geneva: Quaker UN Office, May 2003.

Jackson, T., N. Marsh, T. Owen and A. Thurin. Who Takes the Bullet? The Impact of Small Arms Violence. Understanding the Issues 3. Oslo: Norwegian Church Aid, 2005.

Japan Ministry of Foreign Affairs. "SALW Issues from the Perspective of the Protection and Empowerment of the Peaceful Community." Chairperson's Summary, Tokyo Workshop on Small Arms and Light Weapons, Tokyo, March 13, 2007.

Khakee, Anna and Nicolas Floquin. Kosovo and the Gun: A Baseline Assessment of Small Arms and Light Weapons in Kosovo. Geneva: UNDP and Small Arms Survey, 2003.

King, Dennis. "Paying the Ultimate Price: Analysis of the deaths of humanitarian aid workers (1997-2000)." UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (January 2002).

Kirsten, Adèle and Noël Stott. Controlling the Transfer of Arms Progress and Challenges in the African Context. ISS Paper 159. Pretoria: Institute for Security Studies, 2008.

Kramer, Katherine. "Legal Controls on Small Arms and Light Weapons in Southeast Asia." Occasional Paper 3. Geneva: Small Arms Survey, July 2001.

Krause, Keith. The Challenge of Small Arms and Light Weapons. Geneva: Graduate Institute of International Studies, May 17, 1998.

Krause, Keith. "Small Arms and Light Weapons: Towards Global Public Policy." Coping with Crisis Working Paper Series. New York: International Peace Academy, March 2007.

Krug, Etienne G., Linda L. Dahlberg, James A. Mercy, Anthony B. Zwi, and Rafael Lozano, editors. World Report on Violence and Health. Geneva: World Health Organization, 2002.

Laurance, Edward and Rachel Stohl. "Making Global Public Policy: The Case of Small Arms and Light Weapons." Occasional Paper No.7. Geneva: Small Arms Survey, December 2002.

Laurence, Edward J. Light Weapons and Intrastate Conflict: Early Warning Factors and Preventative Action. Washington, DC: Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict, 1998.

League of Nations. Proceedings of the Conference for the Supervision of the International Trade in Arms and Ammunition and in Implements of War. Document A.13.1925.IX. Geneva, May 4 to June 17, 1925.

LeBrun, Emile and Robert Muggah, eds. "Silencing Guns: Local Perspectives on Small Arms and Armed Violence in Rural Pacific Islands Communities." Occasional Paper 15. Geneva: Small Arms Survey, 2005.

Makki, Sami, Sarah Meek, Abdel-Fatau Musah, Michael Crowley and Damian Lilly. "Private Military Companies and the Proliferation of Small Arms: Regulating the Actors." BASIC, International Alert and Saferworld, 2001.

Marwa, Peter. "Sungusungu in Kuria: An Indigenious Approach towards Control and Management of Small Arms." In Brief 23: Small Arms in the Horn of Africa: Challenges, Issues and Perspectives, edited by Kiflemariam Gebre-Wold and Isabelle Masson. Bonn: Bonn International Center for Conversion, March 2002.

McDonald, Glenn. "The International Tracing Instrument: Challenges and Opportunities." PrepCom side event, 2006 Small Arms Review Conference, New York, January 13, 2006.

Miller, Derek. "Demand, Stockpiles and Social Controls: Small Arms in Yemen." Small Arms Occasional Paper no. 9. Geneva: Small Arms Survey, 2003.

Miller, Derek and Lisa Rudnick. "The Security Needs Assessment Protocol: Improving Operational Effectiveness through Community Security." United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research. United Nations, New York; Geneva, 2008.

Miller, Derek and Wendy Cukier. "Regulation of Civilian Possession of Small Arms and Light Weapons." Briefing 16. London: International Alert, Saferworld, and University of Bradford, 2003.

Muggah, Robert and Eric Berman. Humanitarianism under Threat: The Humanitarian Impacts of Small Arms and Light Weapons. Special Report No. 1. Geneva: Small Arms Survey, July 2001.

Mulikita, Njunga. "Small Arms Proliferation A Major Challenge for Post-conflict Peace Building in Africa." Conflict Trends 1 (2005): 23-26

Mustafa, Artan, and Jeta Xharra. "Balkan Crisis Report: Kosovo Gun Amnesty Setback." Institute for War and Peace Reporting, October 16, 2003.

Nelson, Carol and Robert Muggah. "Solomon Islands: Evaluating the Weapons Free Village Campaign." Geneva: Small Arms Survey, November 2004.

Nichols, Ryan. "BCPR Strategic Review: Solomon Islands." Geneva: Small Arms Survey, February 2006.

Njoroge, Mbugua. "Small Arms and Light Weapons in Kenya." At Issue Ezine 5, no. 2 (February 2007).

Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. Handbook of Best Practices on Small Arms and Light Weapons. Vienna: OSCE, 2003.

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. DAC Guidelines and Reference Series Security: System Reform and Governance. Paris: OECD Publishing, 2005.

Page, Michael Von Tangen, William Godnick and Janani Vivekananda. Implementing International Small Arms Controls: Some Lessons from Eurasia, Latin America and West Africa. London: International Alert, 2005.

Pézard, Stéphanie and Holger Anders, editors. Targeting Ammunition: A Primer. Geneva: Small Arms Survey, 2006.

Pézard, Stéphanie and Nicolas Florquin. "Small Arms in Burundi Disarming the Civilian Population in Peacetime." Special Report No. 7. Geneva: Small Arms Survey, August 2007.

Potgieter, Jakkie and Angus Urquhart. Resolving Small Arms Proliferation. London and Pretoria: Saferworld and SaferAfrica, June 2003.

Pouligny, Béatrice. The Politics and Anti-politics of Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration Programs. Paris and Geneva: Centre dEtudes et de Recherches Internationales  Sciences Po/CNRS, Secrétariat Général de la Défense Nationale (France) and Program for Strategic International Security Studies (Geneva), 2004.

Quin, David, Vladimir Jovanovski, Ana Petruseva, Naser Miftari, Artan Mustafa, Jeta Xharra, Ilir Aliaj, and Lazar Semini. "Albania, Kosovo and Macedonia: Armed to the Teeth." Institute for War and Peace Reporting and Saferworld,November 27, 2003.

Regehr, Ernie. "Reducing the Demand for Small Arms and Light Weapons: Priorities for the International Community." Working paper 04-2. Waterloo, Canada: Project Ploughshares, July 2004.

Regehr, Ernie. "Small Arms and Light Weapons: A Global Humanitarian Challenge." Working Paper 01-4. Waterloo, Canada: Ploughshares, July 2001.

Saferworld.  Small Arms and Light Weapons Survey of Kosovo. Belgrade: South Eastern and Eastern Europe Clearinghouse for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons, 2006.

Sahnoun, Mohamed. "The Humanitarian Challenge of Small Arms Violence. Posting, electronic roundtable on International Politics, African Realities." Africa Action, March 17, 2000.

Small Arms Survey. Small Arms Survey 2003: Development Denied. Geneva: Small Arms Survey, 2003.

Small Arms Survey. Small Arms Survey 2004: Rights at Risk. Geneva: Small Arms Survey, 2004.

Small Arms Survey. Small Arms Survey 2005: Weapons at War. Geneva: Small Arms Survey, 2005.

Small Arms Survey. Small Arms Survey 2007: Guns and the City. Geneva: Small Arms Survey, 2007.

Small Arms Survey. "Demand." Small Arms Survey (accessed November 14, 2008).

Small Arms Survey. "Victims, Survivors, and Costs." Small Arms Survey (accessed November 14, 2008).

Small Arms Survey. "Measures and Initiatives." Small Arms Survey (accessed November 14, 2008).

Small Arms Survey. "Perpetrators." Small Arms Survey (accessed November 14, 2008).

Stohl, Rachel with Sarah Aird, Laura Barnitz, Jimmie Briggs, Rebecca Catalla, Boia Efraime Junior, Antoinette Errante, Heang Path, Stephanie Powell, Frank Smyth, and Christina Torsein. "Putting Children First: Building a Framework for International Action to Address the Impact of Small Arms on Children." Ottawa: Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, 1999.

Street, Annie, Jennifer Smith, and Howard Mollet. "Consolidating the Peace? Views from Sierra Leone and Burundi on the United Nations Peacebuilding Commission." Study by ActionAid, CAFOD, and CARE International, 2007.

Subow, Rukia. The Proliferation of Small Arms and Pastoralists in the Horn of Africa. Bonn: Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC), 2002.

UN Disarmament Demobilization and Reintegration Resource Centre. "Operational Guide to IDDRS: OG 4.11 SALW Control, Security and Development." New York: UN-DDR Resource Centre.

UN Disarmament Demobilization and Reintegration Resource Centre. "Integrated Disarmament Demobilization and Reintegration Standards (IDDRS)." New York: UN-DDR Resource Centre.

United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs. "Conflict, Peace Building, Disarmament, Security-Gender Perspectives on Small Arms." New York, March 2001.

United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs. "Small Arms and Light Weapons." UN Department of Disarmament (accessed November 14, 2008).

UN Development Programme (UNDP). "Small Arms and Light Weapons." Essentials No. 9, UNDP, October 2002.

UN Development Programme (UNDP). "Support to DDR and Small Arms Collection in the Solomon Islands." Geneva: UNDP/BPCR, 2003.

US Department of State. Country Reports on Human Rights Practices (2007).

Viva Rio. "Control Arms." Viva Rio, October 22, 2002.

Weiss, Taya. "Introduction: When is a Nation Not a Nation?" In Guns in the Borderland: Reducing the Demand for Small Arms, ISS Monograph No. 95, by Taya Weiss. Pretoria: Institute for Security Studies, 2004.

Wood, Brian and Elizabeth Clegg. "Controlling the Gun-Runners: Proposals for EU Action to Regulate Arms Brokering and Shipping Agents." NISAT, BASIC, and Saferworld, February 1999.

Wood, Brian and Johan Peleman. "The Arms Fixers: Controlling the Brokers and Shipping Agents." BASIC, NISAT, and PRIO, 1999.

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UN Official Documents

United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs. Program of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects. A/CONF.192/15, July 20, 2001.

United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs. Report of the United Nations Conference on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects. A/CONF. 192/15, August 13, 2001.

UN General Assembly. The Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All its Aspects. A/62/163, August 30, 2007.

UN General Assembly. Report of the Disarmament Commission. A/RES/51/45F (1996).

UN General Assembly. Report of the Panel of Governmental Experts on Small Arms. A/52/298, August 27, 1997.

UN Security Council. Small Arms Report of the Secretary-General. S/2008/258, April 17, 2008.

UN Security Council. Letter dated 9 April 2008 from the Chairman of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1572 (2004) concerning Côte d'Ivoire addressed to the President of the Security Council. S/2008/235, April 14, 2008.

UN Security Council. Report of the Secretary-General: Methods of destruction of small arms, light weapons, ammunition and explosives. S/2000/1092, November 15, 2000.

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Websites

United Nations

UN Disarmament Demobilization and Reintegration Resource Centre.

United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs

United Nations Peacebuilding Commission

Regional Organizations

NATO Partnership for Peace

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development/Development Assistance Committee (OECD/DAC)

Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)

The South Eastern and Eastern Europe Clearinghouse for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons (SEESAC)

NGOs

Africa Action

Amnesty International

ArmsNetAfrica

Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC)

Human Rights Watch

Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, New Delhi, India

International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA)

The Norwegian Initiative on Small Arms Transfers (NISAT)

PeaceWomen. Women, Peace and Security: Small Arms and Light Weapons.

Saferworld

Small Arms Survey

The Transitional Foundation for Peace and Future Research

Trauma Healing and Reconciliation Services Healing from the Heart of Africa (THARS)

Viva Rio

Wassenaar Arrangement on Export Control for Conventional Arms and Dual-Use Goods and Technology

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