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Working Group 1:
Improving research capability

The aim of this working group is to develop European small arms research capability via scholarly interchange:

  • Discussion among researchers in working group meetings.
  • Short-Term Scientific Missions (STSM).
  • Dialogue with researchers in disciplines, such as Criminology, Peace research, Political Science, International Relations, Law (both international and domestic), and Development economics.


    • WG1 does not generally operate independently from the other two working groups. Instead it is used to ensure that there is an important methodological element in the activities carried out by the other working groups.

    Working group 1 is coordinated by Michael Ashkenazi of the Bonn International Centre for Conversion (BICC) in Germany.

    Meetings:

    Bradford    , CICS, 24 & 5 September 2004, WG 1 & 3 Meeting on small arms, development, and armed violence. [Download Bradford meeting minutes here.]

    Geneva    , Small Arms Survey,15 March 2005,  WG 1 & 3 Meeting on European crime data and firearms violence.
    [Download Geneva meeting agenda, list of participants, and minutes] 
    [Download the presentations: Catherine Barber - HSPH; Doris Ma Fat - WHO; Jerry Tate - Interpol; Hidde Toet - ECSI; Martin Killias - ICDP; John van Kesteren - UNICRI; Anna Alvazzi del Frate - UNODC]
     
    Sofia,     Saferworld/CSD, 5 & 6 October 2005, WG 1 & 2 Meeting on Transparency and Arms Research. [Download Sofia meeting minutes here]

    Bradford    , Bradford University/ UAB, 28 & 29 October 2005, WG 1 & 3 Meeting on SALW after Conflict [Download Bradford meeting minutes here]

    Bonn, BICC, 17 & 18 November 2005, WG1 & 3 Meeting on "Gun Culture(s)" 
    [Download Bonn meeting minutes here]

    Geneva, SAS,  17 February 2006, Working Group 1 Meeting on methodologies used by researchers to estimate numbers of armed  conflict deaths.

    Helsinki, 8 September 2006. Working Groups 1 and 3 meeting on morbidity and firearms, held in conjunction with the IPPNW World Congress. Download the meeting summary from here; and PowerPoint presentations:
    Ime John, Framing the issue - impacts of small arms on health.
    Keith Krause, Public health challenges.
    Robert Mtonga, War or health.

    Stockholm, SIPRI, 23 and 24 November 2006. Working Group 1 and 2 Meeting on 'Why and what transparency on arms?' Meeting outline and draft agenda is available for download here.

    Brussels, 15-16 May, 2007. WG 1 & 2 meeting on links between arms trafficking, and other forms of trafficking. Organised by Bradford University
    Download the letter of invitation here and a draft outline here.

    Geneva, 4-5 June, 2007. WG 1 & 3 meeting on costing armed violence; organised by the Small Arms Survey
    Download the draft outline here.

    Geneva, 3 September 2007. WG 1 meeting on the Taback-Coupland method to map human security; organised by the Small Arms Survey
    Download the agenda here and letter of invitation here.

    Brussels, 21-2 January 2008. WG 1 & 2 meeting on ammunition.
    Download the meeting documentation here, and here..