Download or read book A Guide to the Destruction of Small Arms and Light Weapons written by Sarah Meek and published by United Nations Publications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Africa has been a key player in efforts to prevent the illicit trafficking of small arms and light weapons and to ensure better regulation of their legal use. This publication details the experience of, and approach adopted by, the South African National Defence Force (SANDF), which has destroyed 260,000 small arms as part of Operation Mouflon since 1997. These destruction and verification efforts were carefully planned and implemented to ensure that the safety and security of personnel was maintained and that the weapons were rendered unusable. It is hoped that this case study will provide valuable guidance to planners and policy makers in other countries seeking to design their own weapons destruction efforts and collection programmes.

Download or read book Best Practice Guide on National Procedures for the Destruction of Small Arms and Light Weapons written by and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Tackling small arms and light weapons written by Bonn International Center for Conversion and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Destruction Handbook written by UN. Department for Disarmament Affairs and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Documenting Small Arms and Light Weapons A Basic Guide written by N.R. Jenzen-Jones and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Destroying Small Arms and Light Weapons written by David De Clerq and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Best Practice Guide Minimum Standards for National Procedures for the Deactivation of Small Arms and Light Weapons written by and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Best Practice Guide on Deactivation of Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW) suggests minimum standards, approaches and procedures to ensure the permanent deactivation of SALW, and provides recommendations on how to incorporate these into national norms and legislation. The Guide details concrete measures for the participating States to take in marking and record-keeping of weapons and also puts forward technical specifications for the deactivation of SALW. It also contributes to the OSCE efforts in preventing diversion of SALW in the OSCE area and beyond. First adopted in 2018, the Guide has been reviewed and updated to ensure that it remains relevant and applicable. In recognition of the importance of ensuring irreversible SALW deactivation, the OSCE minimum standards have been strengthened by a number of technical updates for rendering SALW and their essential parts permanently inoperable. The Guide on Deactivation of SALW complements the set of OSCE`s Best Practice Guides on SALW covering all stages of a weapon's life cycle, advising states on responsible conduct in this area, starting with manufacturing, the proper marking of small arms, accurate and sustained record keeping, export control criteria and transparency about transfers, and finishing with deactivation, destruction and disarmament, demobilization and reintegration processes.

Download or read book The Small Arms Trade written by Matthew Schroeder and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small Arms are responsible for over half a million deaths each year. Despite this terrifying statistic, millions of guns flow into the streets of the world each year. It is a multi-billion dollar industry, and one which is barely regulated. From AK-47s to M16 rifles; from Terrorist-owned shoulder-fired missiles to child soldiers, this enlightening guide reveals the disturbing reality behind the murky underworld of international arms trading. Explaining how deals can often operate on the edge of legality, and listing the world’s main players, it goes on to ask how the exchange of small arms can be tightened in the future. Full of insight and anticipating the danger of ever lighter and more powerful weapons, this is required reading for anyone who wishes to understand the world today and one of the key threats to development, prosperity and international peace.

Download or read book Disarmament written by Melissa Gillis and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Handbook of Best Practices on Small Arms and Light Weapons written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A set of guidelines developed by the Forum for Security and Co-operation to help cut down the amount of illegally-held weaponry in circulation. The handbook is one of the most comprehensive manuals to-date on SALW that provides a set of best practice guides relating to all stages of a gun's life, starting with manufacture and finishing with destruction and disarmament, demobilization and reintegration.

Download or read book A Guide to International Disarmament Law written by Stuart Casey-Maslen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-24 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disarmament is integral to the safeguarding and promotion of security, development, and human rights. Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent each year on disarmament operations, yet no comprehensive guide exists to explain clearly the international rules governing disarmament. This book seeks to fill that gap. It describes the international legal rules that govern disarmament and the operational, political, and technical considerations that govern their implementation. This book aims to support compliance, implementation, and further development of international disarmament law. Traditionally, disarmament focused on weapons of mass destruction. This remains a critically important area of work. In recent decades, the scope of disarmament has broadened to encompass also conventional weapons, including through the adoption of rules and regulations to govern arms transfers and measures to eliminate specific munitions from stockpiles and to destroy explosive remnants of war. There have also been four "generations" of programmes to address small arms and light weapons at national or sub-national level through disarmament, demobilisation, and reintegration (DDR) programmes during and following the end of armed conflict. While an internationally accepted definition of disarmament does not yet exist, it is widely agreed that disarmament encompasses or interrelates with prohibitions and restrictions on the development, production, stockpiling, testing, and transfer of weapons and on their destruction. In addition to clarifying these elements, chapters of this guide will also consider the relationship between disarmament and the law of armed conflict, and with the United Nations Security Council, human security, public health, and non-state actors.

Download or read book Small Arms and Security written by Denise Garcia and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-09-27 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the emergence of new international norms to govern the spread of small arms, and the extent to which these norms have been established in the policies and practices of states, regions and international organizations. It also attempts to establish criteria for assessing norm emergence, and to assess the process of norm development by comparing what actually happens at the multilateral level. If norm-making on small arms and related multilateral negotiations have mostly dealt with ‘illicit arms’, and most of the norms examined here fall on the arms supplier side of the arms equation, the author argues that the creation of international norms and the setting of widely agreed standards amongst states on all aspects of the demand for, availability, and spread of both legal and illegal small arms and light weapons must become central to the multilateral coordination of policy responses in order to tackle the growing violence associated with small arms availability. Small Arms and Security will be of interest to researchers and professionals in the fields of peace and conflict studies, global governance, international security and disarmament.

Download or read book An Introductory Guide to the Identification of Small Arms Light Weapons and Associated Ammunition written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weapons and ammunition are evidence. Many weapons carry markings which, in combination with their physical characteristics, reveal important information about them, including their manufacturer, age and origin. This information, in turn, provides essential clues to the sources and flows of weapons in the region where they were found. The objective of this manual is to provide the reader with a basic understanding of how to identify and analyze small arms and light weapons, and to monitor their proliferation. The process of identifying weapons is complex and no guide can provide all the information necessary to identify every weapon or round of ammunition that may be encountered at crime scenes or in conflict zones. Instead, this guide explains the process by which weapons and ammunition are identified and weapon flows are tracked. Reference material on specific small arms and ammunition is included throughout the guide. This material will help readers take the necessary steps to identify the make and model of the most commonly encountered weapons and ammunition.

Download or read book Small Arms Survey 2007 written by Small Arms Survey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-09-06 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Small Arms Survey 2007 features a special focus on the complex issue of urban violence.

Download or read book How to Guide Small Arms and Light Weapons Legislation written by United Nations. Development Programme. Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Armed and Aimless written by Eric G. Berman and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The anatomy of Ghana's secret arms industry / Emmanuel Kwesi Aning

Download or read book Ejecuci n Del Programa de Acci n de Las Naciones Unidas en Relaci n Con Las Armas Peque as Y Ligeras written by Elli Kytömäki and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: