Background Information on Arms Brokering

Excerpts from International Initiatives on Brokering (PDF) (Conference Report Appendix)

Controlling arms brokering Next steps for EU member states by Holger Anders. Published by GRIP - Groupe de recherche et d'information sur la paix et la sécurité January 2004 (PDF)

Biting the Bullet: Controlling arms brokering and transport agents: Time for International Action (PDF)

Fund for Peace: Model Convention on the Registration of Arms Brokers and the Suppression of Unlicenced ArmsBrokering (PDF)

Small Arms Survey Yearbook 2001: Chapter 3 on Brokers (PDF 1.6 mb)

Brian Wood & Elizabeth Clegg: Controlling the gun-runners: Proposals for EU action to regulate arms brokering and shipping agents UN Feasibility Study

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EU Council Common Position on the control of arms brokering (PDF)

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July/2003 - NISAT

Publications

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Conclusions and priorities for further research
Guns and deaths: a critical review
Governance and small arms and light weapons
Regaining state control: arms and violence in postconflict countries
Armed violence within societies
Lethal instruments: small arms and deaths in armed conflict
Introduction
The tools of insurgency
Small Arms, Crime and Conflict
Our Right to know: Transparent Reporting under and Arms Trade Treaty
Small, but lethal – Small arms ammunition and the arms trade treaty
'From Under Their Noses: Rebel Groups’ Arms Acquisition and the Importance of Leakages from State Stockpiles
Emerging From Obscurity: The Global Ammunition Trade
Tools of the torturer? Small arms imports and repression of human rights
Norway - a War Profiteer?
Does Globalization Profit the Small Arms Bazaar?
Sifting the Sources Authorized Small Arms Transfers
Progressing Towards an Arms Trade Treaty
Dangerous dealings: arms brokering and regulations in Southern Africa
Taming the Tools of Violence
Disarm or Perish - Is Disarmament a Necessary Condition for Peace?
Counting Guns - The NISAT Datasets on Small Arms Trade
Conflict Specific Capital: The Role of Weapons Acquisition in Civil War
PRIO Report on Small Arms and Development workshop
Controlling Arms Brokering
Kontroll med våpenhandelen?
Europe and the Middle East: Brothers in Arms
Tracking the guns: International diversion of small arms to illicit markets in Rio de Janeiro
From Laws to Practice – Options for Regulatory Controls Over Arms Brokering
Integrating Development into the UN Programme of Action Process
Overview of governmental statements made at the small arms PrepCom
Europeanising Export Controls: The Impact of the European Union Code of Conduct on Arms Exports in Belgium, Germany and Italy
The Efficacy of EU Export Control Measures Concerning Small Arms and Light Weapons
Accounting Guns: The Methodology Used in Developing Data Tables for the Small Arms Survey
Who Takes the Bullet? The impact of small arms violence.
Statement by Nicholas Marsh on Arms Brokering
A Comparative Perspective of UN Peacekeeping in Angola and Namibia
International priorities
Dutch – Norwegian Initiative on Further Steps to Enhance International Co-operation in Preventing, Combating and Eradicating Illicit Brokering in Small Arms and Light Weapons
Global Small Arms Transfers: Insights and Mysteries
Significant Exporters of Small Arms and Light Weapons
En gigant våkner
Shining a Light on Small Arms Exports:The Record of State Transparency
Two Sides of the Same Coin? The Legal and Illegal Trade in Small Arms
Våpen på Ville Veier
Sudan - Small Arms Survey in Darfur And Investigation of the Child Soldier
A 'New' Approach to the Small Arms Trade
Presentation to Diplomats at UN Prep Com
Gathering the Facts on the Small Arms Trade
Running Guns-- The Global Black Market in Small Arms.
The Making of a Moratorium on Light Weapons
The Arms Fixers: Controlling the Brokers and Shipping Agents
Small Arms Control: Old Weapons, New Issues
Curbing the Proliferation of Small Arms and Light Weapons
The US Arms Central America—Past and Present
Flame of Hope
Civil Society Support for the Program for Coordination and Assistance on Security and Development in West Africa
Transparency in the Legal Small Arms Trade
Controlling the Gun-runners
A Farewell to Arms
Curbing the Proliferation of Small Arms and Light Weapons
Arms Availability and Violations of International Humanitarian Law and the Deterioration of the Situation of Civilians in Armed Conflicts
A Moratorium on Light Weapons in West Africa
Norway debates small arms

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