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Small Arms Survey
The Small Arms Survey is an independent research project located at the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, Switzerland. It serves as the principal international source of public information on all aspects of small arms, and as a resource centre for governments, policy makers, researchers, and activists. The project has an international staff with expertise in security studies, political science, international public policy, law, economics, development studies, conflict resolution, and sociology. The staff work closely with a worldwide network of researchers and partners.Visit Site
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June 01, 2022
Missing or Unseen? Exploring Women’s Roles in Arms Trafficking
By: Emilia Dungel, Anne-Séverine Fabre -
May 01, 2022
Extracting Evidence: Opportunities and Obstacles in Assessing the Gendered Impacts of Diverted Ammunition
By: Emile LeBrun, André Desmarais, Kheira Djouhri, Nicolas Florquin -
March 01, 2022
At Whose Risk? Understanding States Parties’ Implementation of Arms Trade Treaty Gender-based Violence Provisions
By: Anne-Séverine Fabre, Gian Giezendanner, Paul Holtom, Emilia Dungel -
December 01, 2021
2021 Small Arms Trade Transparency Barometer
By: Elodie Hainard, Olena Shumska -
August 01, 2021
Nigeria: National Small Arms and Light Weapons Survey
By: Small Arms Survey -
February 01, 2021
Still Not There: Global Violent Deaths Scenarios, 2019–30
By: Gergely Hideg, Anna Alvazzi del Frate -
January 01, 2021
Making the Rounds: Illicit Ammunition in Ukraine
By: Matt Schroeder, Olena Shumska -
December 01, 2020
Trade Update 2020: An Eye on Ammunition Transfers to Africa
By: Nicolas Florquin, Elodie Hainard, Benjamin Jongleux -
October 01, 2020
Tri-border Transit: Trafficking and Smuggling in the Burkina Faso–Côte d’Ivoire–Mali Region
By: Roberto Sollazzo, Matthias Nowak -
September 01, 2020
Covert Carriers: Evolving Methods and Techniques of North Korean Sanctions Evasion
By: Hugh Griffiths, Matt Schroeder -
June 01, 2020
A Missing Mandate? Casualty Recording in UN Peace Operations
By: Hana Salama -
June 01, 2020
Hollow Promises: The Risks of Military Integration in Western Equatoria
By: Flora McCrone -
June 01, 2020
Sudan Uprising: Popular Struggles, Elite Compromises, and Revolution Betrayed
By: John Young -
June 01, 2020
Diaspora in Despair: Darfurian Mobility at a Time of International Disengagement
By: Jérôme Tubiana, Clotilde Warin, Mahamat Saleh Mangare -
May 01, 2020
Conflict and Cooperation: Transitions in Modern Ethiopian-Sudanese Relations
By: John Young -
March 01, 2020
Gender Counts: Assessing Global Armed Violence Datasets for Gender Relevance
By: Anna Alvazzi del Frate, Gergely Hideg, Emile LeBrun -
March 01, 2020
Spilling Over: Conflict Dynamics in and around Sudan's Blue Nile State, 2015–19
By: Khalid Ammar Hassan -
December 01, 2019
The West Africa–Sahel Connection: Mapping Cross-border Arms Trafficking
By: Fiona Mangan, Matthias Nowak -
December 01, 2019
Trade Update 2019: Transfers, Transparency, and South-east Asia Spotlight
By: Michael Picard, Paul Holtom, Fiona Mangan -
September 01, 2019
Arms Monitoring in Guinea: A Survey of National Forensic Services
By: André Desmarais -
September 01, 2019
Displaced and Immiserated: The Shilluk of Upper Nile in South Sudan’s civil war, 2014–19
By: Joshua Craze -
August 01, 2019
War Crimes and Punishment: The Terrain Compound Attack and Military Accountability in South Sudan, 2016–18
By: Flora McCrone -
August 01, 2019
Who's Fighting Whom in Tripoli: How the 2019 Civil War is Transforming Libya's Military Landscape
By: Wolfram Lacher -
August 01, 2019
Preventing Diversion: Comparing ATT and African Measures for Importing States
By: Paul Holtom, Benjamin Jongleux -
May 01, 2019
Darkening Horizons: Global Violent Deaths Scenarios, 2018–30
By: Gergely Hideg, Anna Alvazzi del Frate -
March 01, 2019
Fourth MPOME Regional Workshop Report: Making Peace Operations More Effective
By: Claire McEvoy -
March 01, 2019
Beyond Blue Helmets: Promoting Weapons and Ammunition Management in Non-UN Peace Operations
By: Eric G. Berman -
February 01, 2019
Third MPOME Regional Workshop Report: Making Peace Operations More Effective
By: Claire McEvoy -
January 01, 2019
Weapons Compass: Mapping Illicit Small Arms Flows in Africa
By: Nicolas Florquin, Sigrid Lipott, Francis Wairagu -
December 01, 2018
Identity and Self-determination: The Fertit Opposition in South Sudan
By: Sarah Vuylsteke -
December 01, 2018
Trade Update 2018: Sub-Saharan Africa in Focus
By: Paul Holtom, Irene Pavesi -
December 01, 2018
Lost in Trans-nation: Tubu and Other Armed Groups and Smugglers along Libya's Southern Border
By: Jérôme Tubiana, Claudio Gramizzi -
November 01, 2018
Beyond State Control: Improvised and Craft-produced Small Arms and Light Weapons
By: G. Hays, N.R. Jenzen-Jones -
August 01, 2018
The 2018 Small Arms Trade Transparency Barometer
By: Paul Holtom, Irene Pavesi -
August 01, 2018
Second MPOME Regional Workshop Report: Making Peace Operations More Effective
By: Claire McEvoy -
July 01, 2018
Too Close for Comfort: How Algeria Faces the Libyan Conflict
By: Jalel Harchaoui -
June 01, 2018
Capital of Militias: Tripoli's Armed Groups Capture the Libyan State
By: Wolfram Lacher -
June 01, 2018
Estimating Global Law Enforcement Firearms Numbers
By: Aaron Karp -
June 01, 2018
Estimating Global Civilian-held Firearms Numbers
By: Aaron Karp -
June 01, 2018
Handmade and Deadly: Craft Production of Small Arms in Nigeria
By: Matthias Nowak -
June 01, 2018
Ways Forward: Conclusions of the Small Arms Symposia
By: Glenn McDonald -
June 01, 2018
Monitoring Illicit Arms Flows: The Role of UN Peacekeeping Operations
By: Holger Anders -
June 01, 2018
Life-cycle Management of Ammunition (LCMA): Lessons from Bosnia and Herzegovina
By: Jovana Carapic, Paul Holtom -
June 01, 2018
Women in State Security Provision in Nepal: Meaningful Participation?
By: Mihaela Racovita -
June 01, 2018
Implementing the Programme of Action and International Tracing Instrument: An Assessment of National Reports, 2012–17
By: Paul Holtom, Moshe Ben Hamo Yeger -
May 01, 2018
Lifting US Sanctions on Sudan: Rationale and Reality
By: Emile LeBrun, Claire McEvoy -
April 01, 2018
From Legal to Lethal: Converted Firearms in Europe
By: Nicolas Florquin, Benjamin King -
January 01, 2018
At the Crossroads of Sahelian Conflicts: Insecurity, Terrorism, and Arms Trafficking in Niger
By: Savannah de Tessières -
December 01, 2017
Global Violent Deaths 2017: Time to Decide
By: Claire McEvoy, Gergely Hideg -
October 01, 2017
First MPOME Regional Workshop Report: Making Peace Operations More Effective
By: Emile LeBrun -
October 01, 2017
Isolation and Endurance: Riek Machar and the SPLM-IO in 2016-17
By: John Young -
October 01, 2017
Making a Tough Job More Difficult: Loss of Arms and Ammunition in Peace Operations
By: Eric G. Berman, Mihaela Racovita, Matt Schroeder -
September 01, 2017
Trade Update 2017: Out of the Shadows
By: Paul Holtom, Irene Pavesi -
July 19, 2016
Popular Struggles and Elite Co-Optation: The Nuer White Army in South Sudan's Civil War
By: John Young -
July 08, 2016
Broken Promises: The Arms Embargo on Darfur Since 2012
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June 06, 2016
Regional Organizations and the UN Programme of Action on Small Arms
By: Eric G. Berman, Kerry Maze -
June 01, 2016
Trade Update 2016: Transfers and Transparency
By: Irene Pavesi -
May 25, 2016
Transfers and Transparency
By: Irene Pavesi -
May 13, 2016
A Guide to the Small Arms Process
By: Sarah Parker, Marcus Wilson -
May 01, 2016
Measuring Illicit Arms Flows: SDG Target 16.4
By: -
April 06, 2016
The Online Trade of Light Weapons in Libya
By: -
March 01, 2016
Dribs and Drabs
By: -
February 01, 2016
Chambering the Next Round: Emergent Small-Calibre Cartridge Technologies
By: N.R. Jenzen-Jones -
February 01, 2016
Checks and Balances: Securing Small Arms during Peace Operations
By: -
January 22, 2016
Syria's Armed Opposition: A Spotlight on the 'Moderates'
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January 01, 2016
The Value of Hospital Data Understanding and Preventing Intentional Injury in Liberia
By: Lucie Collinson, Andrew Winnington, Mary Vriniotis -
January 01, 2016
Down, but Not Out: The FDLR in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
By: -
March 05, 2012
Precedent in the Making: The UN Meeting of Governmental Experts
By: Glenn McDonald -
March 05, 2012
Weapons Tracing and Peace Support Operations: Theory or Practice?
By: Glenn McDonald, James Bevan -
February 05, 2012
In Transit: Gangs and Criminal Networks in Guyana
By: Taylor Owen, Alexandre Grigsby -
January 05, 2012
Ammunition Marking: Current Practices and Future Possibilities
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April 05, 2011
Scraping the Barrel: The Trade in Surplus Ammunition
By: Pierre Gobinet, Claudio Gramizzi -
December 05, 2010
The Method behind the Mark: A Review of Firearm Marking Technologies
By: -
November 05, 2010
South-east European Surplus Arms: State Policies and Practices,
By: -
October 05, 2010
Under Pressure: Social violence over land and water in Yemen
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July 05, 2010
Surveying Europe's Production and Procurement of Small Arms and Light Weapons Ammunition
By: Benjamin King(ed.) -
June 05, 2010
National Implementation of the United Nations Small Arms Programme of Action and the International Tracing Instrument: An Analysis of Reporting in 2009–10
By: Sarah Parker -
May 05, 2010
Fault lines: Tracking armed violence in Yemen
By: Emile LeBrun -
April 05, 2010
Symptoms and causes: Insecurity and underdevelopment in Eastern Equatoria
By: Emile LeBrun -
April 05, 2010
Uncertain Future: Armed Violence in Southern Sudan
By: Emile LeBrun, Claire McEvoy -
April 05, 2010
Primed and Purposeful: Armed Groups and Human Security Efforts in the Philippines
By: Soliman M. Santos, Paz Verdades M. Santos -
January 05, 2010
Rhetoric and Reality: The Failure to Resolve the Darfur Conflict
By: Julie Flint -
December 05, 2009
No Other Life: Gangs, Guns, and Governance in Trinidad and Tobago
By: Dorn Townsend -
August 05, 2009
Surplus Arms in South America
By: Aaron Karp -
January 05, 2009
Trading Life, Trading Death: The Flow of Small Arms from Mozambique to Malawi
By: Gregory Mthembu-Salter -
February 05, 2007
Avoiding Disarmament Failure: The Critical Link in DDR An Operational Manual for Donors, Managers, and Practitioners
By: Peter Swarbrick -
June 05, 2006
How Many Weapons Are There in Cambodia?
By: Christina Wille -
January 05, 2006
Islands of Safety in a Sea of Guns: Gun-free Zones in South Africa
By: Adèle Kirsten -
October 05, 2005
The Use and Perception of Weapons Before and After Conflict: Evidence from Rwanda
By: Philip Verwimp, Cécelle Meijer -
September 05, 2005
The Role of Small Arms during the 2003-2004 Conflict in Iraq
By: Gilbert Burnham, Riyadh Lafta, Les Roberts, Richard Garfield -
June 05, 2005
Silencing Guns: Local Perspectives on Small Arms and Armed Violence in Rural Pacific Islands Communities
By: Emile LeBrun, Robert Muggah -
October 05, 2004
Small Arms and Light Weapons Production in Eastern, Central, and Southeast Europe
By: Yudit Kiss -
February 05, 2004
Kyrgyzstan: A Small Arms Anomaly in Central Asia?
By: S. Neil MacFarlane, Stina Torjesen Torjesen -
October 05, 2003
In the Shadow of a Cease-fire: The Impacts of Small Arms Availability and Misuse in Sri Lanka
By: Chris Smith -
August 05, 2003
Beyond the Kalashnikov: Small Arms Production, Exports, and Stockpiles in the Russian Federation
By: Anna Matveeva, Maria Haug, Maxim Pyadushkin -
May 05, 2003
Demand, Stockpiles, and Social Controls: Small Arms in Yemen
By: Derek B. Miller -
March 05, 2003
Small Arms in the Pacific
By: Philip Alpers, Conor Twyford -
December 05, 2002
Making Global Public Policy: The Case of Small Arms and Light Weapons
By: Rachel Stohl, Edward Laurence -
November 05, 2002
Politics from the Barrel of a Gun: Small Arms Proliferation and Conflict in the Republic of Georgia
By: Spyros Demetriou -
October 05, 2002
Stray Bullets: The Impact of Small Arms Misuse in Central America
By: Camilla Waszink, Robert Muggah, William Godnick -
January 05, 2002
Shining a Light on Small Arms Exports: The Record of State Transparency
By: Maria Haug, Martin Langvandslien, Lora Lumpe, Nic Marsh -
July 05, 2001
Removing Small Arms from Society: A Review of Weapons Collection and Destruction Programmes
By: Sami Faltas, Glenn McDonald, Camilla Waszink -
July 05, 2001
The Small arms Survey: Legal Controls on Small Arms and Light Weapons in Southeast Asia
By: Katherine Kramer -
December 05, 2000
Re-Armament in Sierra Leone: One Year After the Lomé Peace Agreement
By: Eric Berman