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Conferences and Workshops
Previous Conferences
Please also click on resources to see pictures of some of our events.
Brussels, The Academy Palace, 17-19 March 2008, COST Action final conference.
Please download the conference agenda.
Papers presented at the conference:
Recent Developments in SALW Research
Nicholas Marsh - Key findings
Wendy Cukier - Developments in Small Arms Research since 2004
Owen Greene - Developments in SALW research
Priorities for Future Research
Nicholas Marsh - Priorities for Future Research
Owen Greene - Some priorities for future research
Eric G. Berman - Priorities for Future Research on SALW
SALW and conflict
Charles Nasibu - Weapons Availability and Conflict Dynamics: Examples from Africa
Piotr Zagorowski - Arms Acquisitions and Effects on Civil Wars (PowerPoint)
Piotr Zagorowski - Arms Acquisitions and Effects on Civil Wars (.Pdf)
Mike Bourne - Small Arms and Light Weapons Spread and Conflict
Nils Duquet - Weapons Procurement and Insurgency
Simone Tholens - Light Weapons and Another 'Nakba' in Palestine
Eric G. Berman - Arms and Conflict Dynamics
Eric G. Berman - Weapons Acquisition and Armed Conflict
James Pugel - Understanding the Aftermath: Giving up the Gun in Liberia
Joakim Kreutz - Arms availability and the risk of civil war recurrance
Nicholas Marsh - The Tools of Insurgency
Nicholas Marsh - Availability and Initiation
Siemon Wezeman - SALW and the Initiation of Armed Conflict
Paul Holtom - UN Arms Embargoes and Arms Flows to Armed Non-State Actors
Georges Berghezan - Arms transfers to the embargoed DR Congo
Small Arms and Society
Gwinyayi Albert Dzinesa - SALW Control, Disarmament and Peace-Building
Chris Stevenson - Small Arms and Society
Mike Bourne - What Shapes Illicit Flows?
An Vranckx - Characteristics of illicit flows
Pablo Dreyfus - Small arms diversion to crime settings
Valentina Bartolucci - Armed Violence Taking Place Within Societies
Folade Mutota - Gender Identities in the Caribbean: The Small Arms Factor
Folade Mutota - Port of Spain Declaration
Ciara Loughney - Small Arms and Gender Identities
Nicholas Marsh - Causes and Costs of Gun Violence: A Critical Evaluation
Nicholas Marsh - Trafficking and homicide in Western Europe
Ariel Macaspac - Guns, Goons and Gold as Burdens of a Fragile State
Policy and Societal responses
Christopher Kovats-Bernat - Examining the "Weapons Effect" in Haiti
Binalakshmi Nepram - The Emergence of the Manipuri Women Gun Survivor’s Network
Holger Anders - The development of the EU policy on SALW
Mark Bromley - Europeanization of arms export policies (PowerPoint)
Mark Bromley - Europeanization of arms export policies (.pdf)
Virginie Giarmana - Mainstreaming SALW in European policies and debates
Clare da Silva - Evolution of international law on arms transfers
Mayra Jucá - The Small Arms Control Project, Viva Rio
James Arputharaj - Strategies for National Regulation of SALW
Nicholas Florquin - Engaging armed non-state actors on small arms issues?
Consequences of Armed Violence
Ciara Loughney - Firearms and Domestic Violence in the Western Balkans
Sanda Flegar - Impact of Armed Violence Regarding Gender and Age
Sanda Flegar - How Small Arms Research led to Violence Prevention/ Community Safety Projects in Croatia
Achim Wennmann - Economic impacts of armed violence
Peter Hall - Economic impacts of armed violence: Resources, Choices and Outcomes
Sharif A. Kafi - Arms Availability and Poverty Reduction
David Atwood - Making the Links- Arms Availability and Poverty Reduction
Dimitar Dimitrov - SALW Production- Case of Central and Eastern Europe
Jurgen Brauer - The U.S. Firearms Industry
EU External Policy and SALW
Mark Bromley - The EU Code of Conduct
Marking and Tracing
Michael Ashkanazi - Marking and Indentification of Arms
Glenn McDonald - International Tracing Instrument - Key Aspects
Ilhan Berkol - International Tracing Instrument on SALW
Antonio E. Evora - The UN and the International Tracing Instrument (ITI)
Brussels, GRIP, training school for new researchers, 14-16 March.
You can download:
Training School Attendees
Presentation by Nicholas Marsh on refining research questions
Presentation by Aimée Hampel-Milagrosa on encoding methods and econometric analysis of survey data
Oslo, PRIO, international workshop on 'Integrating Small Arms Measures into Development Programmes', 31 November and 1 December 2006.
Please download a copy of the workshop reportfrom here.
You can also download Oslo International Workshop - Policy Brief. This policy brief highlights the main themes of discussion during the workshop and presents key objectives and recommendations which were subsequently elaborated on by the organisers.
You can also download papers presented at the workshop:
Panel 1 Vanessa Farr.
Panel 1 Owen Greene.
Panel 2 UNIDIR Lisa Rudnick and Derek Miller.
Panel 2 Slu Hlongwa.
Panel 3 Kenneth Epps.
Panel 3 Yuriy Kryvonos.
Panel 4 Adrian Wilkinson.
Panel 4 Michael Ashkenazi.
Panel 5 Marc Antoine Morel.
Panel 5 David de Beer.
The Hague, Pax
Christi Netherlands, 30 & 31
May 2005, Workshop "Security When the States Fails,
Community Responses to Armed
Violence". [More about the conference is available here (click on 'Workshop 2005'). The conference proceedings were published as a book and CD by Pax Christi Netherlands, who can be contacted here.]
Brussels, GRIP, 22 October 2004, Conference on the production, marking, and tracing of small arms. [Download Brussels Conference minutes here.]