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13.01.2021

MoU signing

CARICOM IMPACS and the Small Arms Survey sign Memorandum of Understanding

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21.12.2020

New Report

Trade Update 2020: An Eye on Ammunition Transfers to Africa

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23.10.2020

New Briefing Paper

Smuggling and arms trafficking in the border regions between Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, and Mali

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25.09.2020

New Briefing Paper

Covert Carriers: Evolving Methods and Techniques of North Korean Sanctions Evasion

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09.07.2020

Annual Report

Small Arms Survey Annual Report 2019

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07.07.2020

New how-to guides

Supporting Effective Implementation of UN Sanctions on North Korea

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30.06.2020

New SANA-HSBA Briefing Paper

A Missing Mandate? Casualty Recording in UN Peace Operations

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26.06.2020

New HSBA Briefing Paper

Hollow Promises: The Risks of Military Integration in Western Equatoria

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17.06.2020

New from HSBA

South Sudan Actors and Alliances Map

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11.06.2020

New HSBA-SANA Report

Diaspora in Despair: Darfurian Mobility at a Time of International Disengagement

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05.06.2020

New HSBA Report

Sudan Uprising: Popular Struggles, Elite Compromises, and Revolution Betrayed

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26.05.2020

Covid-19: A message from the director of the Small Arms Survey

15.05.2020

New HSBA Briefing Paper

Conflict and Cooperation: Transitions in Modern Ethiopian-Sudanese Relations

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17.04.2020

New SANA Briefing Papers

Arms Monitoring in Guinea: A Survey of National Forensic Services

Le monitoring des armes en Guinée : les institutions forensiques nationales

07.04.2020

New database update

New update of our Global Violent Deaths (GVD) database

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02.04.2020

New map

New trend analysis of global MANPADS proliferation

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05.03.2020

New Briefing Paper

Gender Counts: Assessing Global Armed Violence Datasets

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03.03.2020

New HSBA Report

Spilling Over: Conflict Dynamics in and around Sudan’s Blue Nile State, 2015–19

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19.12.2019

New Briefing Paper

The West Africa–Sahel Connection : Mapping Cross-border Arms Trafficking

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11.12.2019

New Report

Trade Update 2019: Transfers, Transparency, and South-east Asia Spotlight

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14.11.2019

Announcement

The Small Arms Survey welcomes new director Daniel de Torres

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25.10.2019

New Handbook

Gender-responsive Small Arms Control: A Practical Guide

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09.10.2019

New HSBA Briefing Paper

The Mathiang Anyoor—cattle keepers turned key SPLA fighters

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26.09.2019

New SANA Briefing Paper

Le monitoring des armes en Guinée : les institutions forensiques nationales

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20.09.2019

New HSBA Report

How the Shilluk are affected by the South Sudan civil war

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28.08.2019

New Briefing Paper

Lessons learned to prevent diversion when importing conventional arms

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26.08.2019

New HSBA Briefing Paper

The Terrain Compound Attack and Military Accountability
in South Sudan, 2016–18

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23.08.2019

New SANA Briefing Paper

How the 2019 Civil War is Transforming Libya’s Military Landscape

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19.07.2019

New Report

Mapping illicit arms flows in Africa

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28.05.2019

New Briefing Paper

Darkening Horizons: Global Violent Deaths Scenarios, 2018—30

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18.04.2019

New MPOME Report

Beyond Blue Helmets: Promoting Weapons and Ammunition Management in Non-UN Peace Operations

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19.12.2018

New HSBA Briefing Paper

Identity and Self-determination: The Fertit Opposition in South Sudan

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18.12.2018

New Report

Trade Update 2018: Sub-Saharan Africa in Focus

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17.12.2018

New Report

Tubu and Other Armed Groups and Smugglers along Libya’s Southern Border

12.11.2018

New Handbook

An Introductory Guide to the Identification of Small Arms, Light Weapons, and Associated Ammunition

05.11.2018

New Report
Improvised and craft-produced weapons

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29.08.2018

New MPOME Report
MPOME Second Regional Workshop Report

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22.08.2018

New Briefing Paper
The Small Arms Trade Transparency Barometer

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30.07.2018

New SANA Briefing Paper
How Algeria Faces the Libyan Conflict

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29.06.2018

New SANA Briefing Paper
Tripoli's armed groups

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21.06.2018

New Report

Analysis of PoA/ITI national reports, 2012–17

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18.06.2018

New Briefing Papers

Global Firearms Holdings

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13.06.2018

New Briefing Paper

Craft-production of small arms in Nigeria

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12.06.2018

SANA SDG 16 focus: Research on capacities for monitoring arms flows in the Sahel, and RevCon3 side event

Two new Briefing Papers and one RevCon3 side event

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08.06.2018

New Briefing Paper
Conclusions of the small arms symposia

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02.05.2018

New Handbook
A Practical Guide to Life-cycle Management of Ammunition

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24.04.2018

New Briefing Paper
Life-cycle Management of Ammunition in Bosnia and Herzegovina

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18.04.2018

New Report
Converted firearms in Europe

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08.03.2018

New Briefing Paper
Women in State Security Provision in Nepal

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07.02.2018

New SANA Briefing Paper
Counting Casualties: Operationalizing SDG Indicator 16.1.2 in Libya

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24.01.2018

New SANA Report
Insecurity, Terrorism, and Arms Trafficking in Niger

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07.12.2017

New Report
Global Violent Deaths 2017

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09.11.2017

New Report
The Loss of Arms and Ammunition in Peace Operations

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25.10.2017

New Briefing Paper
Arms Control 2.0: Operationalizing SDG Target 16.4

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14.09.2017

New Briefing Paper
The UN Programme of Action’s Sixth Biennial Meeting

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13.09.2017

Launch of the Trade Update 2017
Out of the Shadows

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06.09.2017

New Briefing Paper
Towards a better assessment of the human cost of armed conflict

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31.07.2017

New SANA Briefing Paper
Emerging armed groups in Egypt

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27.06.2017

New Working Paper
‘Guns for Hire’ in the Chad–Sudan–Libya Triangle

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19.06.2017

New SANA Briefing Paper
The Gold Rush in Northern Niger

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03.05.2017

New Working Paper
The Online Trade of Small Arms and Light Weapons in Libya

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27.04.2017

New Briefing Paper
Southern Libya Destabilized: the Case of Ubari

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13.04.2017

New Briefing Paper
Measuring Illicit Arms Flows: Ukraine

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31.03.2017

New Briefing Paper
Tracking Conflict-related deaths

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20.03.2017

First Publication in New Briefing Paper Series
Measuring Illicit Arms Flows: Niger

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23.02.2017

Global Development and Production of Self-loading Service Rifles
New Working Paper

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30.12.2016

Introducing the Small Arms Survey PSSM Priorities Matrix

13.12.2016

Weapons and ammunition identification
Tunis workshop

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25.11.2016

A Gendered Analysis of Violent Deaths
New Research Note

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23.11.2016

Measuring Illicit Arms Flows: Honduras
New Research Note

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10.11.2016

Monitoring UN Arms Embargoes: Observations from Panels of Experts
New Occasional Paper

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20.10.2016

Measuring Illicit Arms Flows
Somalia case study

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18.10.2016

Firearms and Violent Deaths

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17.10.2016

Reducing urban insecurity

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26.09.2016

Weapons and ammunition identification

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21.09.2016

Launch of SDG16 reports and updated interactive map on violent deaths

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06.09.2016

Gender-based Violence Interventions: Opportunities for Innovation
Launch of the gap analysis

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24.08.2016

‘The Arms Trade Treaty: A Commentary’
New book co-authored by the Small Arms Survey

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23.08.2016

The Arms Trade Treaty
A Practical Guide to Implementation

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12.08.2016

Launch of ‘The Arms Trade Treaty: A Practical Guide to Implementation’
Save the date!

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02.08.2016

Gender-based Violence Interventions: Opportunities for Innovation
Launch of the Gap Analysis Report

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22.07.2016

Weapons identification workshop for journalists
New York, 6—7 September 2016

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10.07.2016

Global Partnership on Small Arms
New website

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09.06.2016

Navigating the UN small arms process
New editions of two Handbooks released at BMS6

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06.06.2016

BMS6 side event
Trade, Transparency, and Illicit Trafficking

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06.06.2016

Trade Update 2016
Transfers and Transparency

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31.05.2016

New Research Notes
Reducing illicit arms flows and Sustainable Development Goal 16

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06.04.2016

New SANA Dispatch
The Online Trade of Light Weapons in Libya

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15.03.2016

New Issue Brief
Dribs and Drabs: The Mechanics of Small Arms Trafficking from the United States

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08.03.2016

International Women’s Day
Infographic on gender-based violence

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26.02.2016

New Issue Brief
Checks and Balances: Securing Small Arms during Peace Operations

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18.02.2016

New Working Paper
Chambering the Next Round: Emergent Small-calibre Cartridge Technologies

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09.02.2016

New Working Paper
The Value of Hospital Data: Understanding and Preventing Intentional Injury in Liberia

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30.01.2016

New Research Note
Down, but Not Out: The FDLR in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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22.01.2016

New SANA Dispatch
Syria’s Armed Opposition: A Spotlight on the ‘Moderates’

12.01.2016

Gender-based Violence in Emergencies:
Gaps, Challenges and Innovation

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01.01.2016

Management changes at the Survey

18.12.2015

New Research Note
Recoilless Weapons

17.12.2015

New Issue Brief
Voicing Concern: Surveying People’s Priorities in Violent Settings

07.12.2015

The Maison de la Paix Supports the Sustainable Development Goals

01.12.2015

UN Meeting on Poaching in Africa
The Impact of Weapons Trafficking

27.11.2015

Fields of Control: Oil and (In)security in Sudan and South Sudan
New Working Paper from the HSBA for Sudan and South Sudan

25.11.2015

The State of Female Homicide in the World
International Day on the Elimination of Violence Against Women

17.11.2015

Unplanned Explosions at Munitions Sites (UEMS)
Tools, Translations, and Updates

09.11.2015

'Promoting Peaceful and Inclusive Societies: Practices that Count'
Public event on 16 November 2015 in Geneva

20.10.2015

Unheard and Uncounted: Violence against Women in India
New Issue Brief from the India Armed Violence Assessment

1.10.2015

A Fractious Rebellion: Inside the SPLM-IO
New Working Paper from the HSBA for Sudan and South Sudan

30.09.2015

Secret Stockpiles: Arms Caches and Disarmament Efforts in Mozambique
New Working Paper

01.09.2015

Diversion of Arms and Ammunition in Peace Operations
New Armed Actors Research Note

25.08.2015

Two Fronts, One War: Evolution of the Two Areas Conflict, 2014–15
New Working Paper from the HSBA for Sudan and South Sudan

05.08.2015

Violent Deaths due to Legal Interventions
New Research Note

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31.07.2015

Documenting Small Arms and Light Weapons
New Issue Brief

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30.07.2015

There and Back: Trajectories of North African Foreign Fighters in Syria
New SANA Issue Brief

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08.07.2015

Peacekeeper weapons losses in Sudan and South Sudan, 2005-14
New Working Paper from the HSBA

07.07.2015

National reporting on small arms trade and control measures
New Issue Brief on PoA & ITI reports

01.07.2015

Young People and Political Crisis in Burundi
Media advisory

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10.06.2015

Missing missiles: The Proliferation of Man-portable Air Defence Systems in North Africa
New SANA Issue Brief

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01.06.2015

Small Arms Survey 2015: Weapons and the World
Now available

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22.05.2015

Public discussion on "Women and Armed Violence: Peace and Gender Equality"
Monday 1 June 2015, Geneva
New Event

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19.05.2015

Guided Mortar Systems
New Research Note

08.05.2015

Press Release
Every Body Counts: Violent deaths decrease; yet armed conflict grows more lethal

24.04.2015

New multimedia
Two new videos: UN interview with Anna Alvazzi de Frate on armed violence and development; Oxford lecture by Keith Krause on linking war and political violence.

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16.04.2015

Save the date...
Launch of the Global Burden of Armed Violence 2015: Every Body Counts on 11 May 2015.

13.04.2015

Measuring armed violence reduction and prevention for peaceful and inclusive societies
Ancillary Meeting at UN Crime Congress, Friday 17 April, Doha.

26.03.2015

Designing MANPADS to prevent proliferation
New Issue Brief

25.03.2015

Unplanned Explosions at Munitions Sites - 1979 to 2014
Updated online tool

18.03.2015

Behind the Curve: New Technologies, New Control Challenges
New Occasional Paper

18.03.2015

One Meeting After Another: UN Process Update
New Issue Brief

16.03.2015

Reducing Illicit Arms Flows and the New Development Agenda
New Research Note

06.03.2015

Every Body Counts: Measuring Violent Deaths
New Research Note

04.03.2015

Automatic Grenade Launchers
New Research Note

20.02.2015

Lord's Resistance Army update
Facts and Figures from the HSBA for Sudan and South Sudan

20.02.2015

From Replica to Real: An Introduction to Firearms Conversions
New Issue Brief

09.02.2015

Reporting from the Frontline: Weapons identification for journalists
New podcast

12.01.2015

Armed Groups and Guided Light Weapons: 2014 Update with MENA Focus
New Research Note and updated database

24.12.2014

The ATT comes into force
Survey analysis explains the impacts for transfers of small arms and light weapons

22.13.2014

Happy holidays from the Survey team
We're moving to our new offices at the Maison de la Paix

25.11.2014

Violence, Women, and Guns
International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

18.11.2014

The Highway Routes: Small Arms Smuggling in Eastern Nepal
New Issue Brief from the Nepal Armed Violence Assessment

13.11.2014

Contested Borders: Continuing Tensions over the Sudan–South Sudan Border
New Working Paper from the HSBA for Sudan and South Sudan

04.11.2014

Countering Improvised Explosive Devices
New Research Note

30.10.2014

Politics by Other Means: Conflicting Interests in Libya’s Security Sector
New SANA Working Paper

14.10.2014

Handgun Ownership and Armed Violence in the Western Balkans
New Issue Brief

10.10.2014

Arms Trade Treaty: Model Law
New Co-publication with the New Zealand Government

08.10.2014

Women and Gun Ownership
New Research Note

06.10.2014

Women and Guns
Vienna launch and video overview of Small Arms Survey 2014

02.09.2014

Firearm Suicides
New Research Note

28.08.2014

Searching for Stability: Perceptions of Security, Justice, and Firearms in Libya
New Security Assessment in North Africa Issue Brief

19.08.2014

Fire and Forget: The Proliferation of Man-portable Air Defence Systems in Syria
New Small Arms Survey Issue Brief

12.08.2014

Profiling Ammunition
Global Focus

07.08.2014

Producers of Small Arms, Light Weapons, and Their Ammunition
New Research Note

29.07.2014

Feeding the Fire: Illicit Small Arms Ammunition in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Somalia
New Small Arms Survey Issue Brief

24.07.2014

Rogue Rocketeers: Artillery Rockets and Armed Groups
New Working Paper

21.07.2014

Armed groups' guided weapons, MANPADs, and attacks on aircraft
Research Notes

14.7.2014

Identifying Sources: Small-calibre Ammunition in Côte d'Ivoire
New Special Report

18.6.2014

Unplanned explosions at munitions sites
New Handbook available

17.6.2014

Documenting Weapons in Situations of Armed Conflict
weapons and markets Research Note

17.6.2014

Implementation of the PoA
Several resources released a BMS5

13.6.2014

Small Arms Survey at BMS5
Side events, 16 to 20 June 2014

5.6.2014

Small Arms Survey 2013: Everyday Dangers
All chapters now available online

5.6.2014

Small Arms Survey 2013: Everyday Dangers
All chapters now available online

4.6.2014

Armed actors and arms trafficking in North Africa, South Sudan and Sudan
Briefing by the Small Arms Survey on 17 June 2014, Washington DC

27.5.2014

Small Arms Survey 2014: Women and Guns
Coming soon: to be launched 16 June 2014

13.5.2014

Taking Stock of Excess Stockpiles: UEMS in South-east Europe
New Measures and Programmes Research Note

13.5.2014

Small Arms of the Indian State: A Century of Procurement and Production
Issue Brief from the India Armed Violence assessment: Now in Hindi

12.5.2014

Weapons tracing in Sudan and South Sudan
New Working Paper from the HSBA for Sudan and South Sudan

7.5.2014

The UEMS Incident Reporting Template
New Measures and Programmes Research Note

28.4.2014

Excess Arms in South Sudan
Issue Brief: Security forces and surplus management

11.4.2014

Inclusive Cities, Inclusive Security
New Geneva Declaration Policy Paper

11.4.2014

Firearms and Violence in Honduras
New Armed Violence Research Note

8.4.2014

Syria: Ammunition and Foreign Jihadism
New Working Paper and Dispatch from the Security Assessment in North Africa

4.2.2014

Libya’s Fractious South and Regional Instability
New Dispatch from the Security Assessment in North Africa

31.1.2014

Traditional Military Rifles
New Weapons and Markets Research Note

16.1.2014

Small Arms of the Indian State: A Century of Procurement and Production
New Issue Brief from the India Armed Violence assessment

11.1.2014

South Sudan: Crisis in Unity State
Update from the HSBA for Sudan and South Sudan

8.1.2014

Controlling Small Arms: Consolidation, Innovation and Relevance in Research and Policy
New edited volume in the Book series

23.12.2013

Tunisia & Libya: trafficking & ammunition
New Working Paper and new Dispatch from the Security Assessment in North Africa

16.12.2013

Industrial Demilitarization of Conventional Ammunition
New Measures and Programmes Research Note

10.12.2013

Crime and Security Perceptions in the Nepali Private Sector
New Issue Brief from the Nepal Armed Violence Assessment

04.12.2013

Marking of Firearms and Ammunition
New Measures and Programmes Research Note

25.11.2013

16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence
Small Arms Survey research on gender-based violence

21.11.2013

Unplanned Explosions at Munitions Sites (UEMS)
Latest updates 1987-2013

18.11.2013

A Fresh Approach to Ammunition Demilitarization
New Small Arms Survey podcast

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31.10.2013

Parts for Small Arms and Light Weapons
New Weapons and Markets Research Note

07.10.2013

Geospatial Technologies and Crime: The Jamaican Experience
New Armed Violence Issue Brief

24.09.2013

Estimating Military-owned Small Arms Holdings
New Armed Actors Research Note

06.09.2013

Small Arms Control Measures and National Reporting in Africa
New Measures and Programmes Research Note

31.07.2013

Non-lethal Firearm Violence
New Armed Violence Research Note

24.07.2013

‘Infernal Machines’: Improvised Explosive Devices
Chapter from Small Arms Survey 2013: Everyday Dangers

23.07.2013

'FAL Rifles in Libya: A Guide to Data Gathering'
New Dispatch from the Security Assessment in North Africa

28.06.2013

'Armed Groups’ Holdings of Guided Light Weapons'
New Armed Actors Research Note

21.06.2013

Small Arms Survey 2012: Moving Targets
All chapters now available to download

20.06.2013

Small Arms Survey 2013: Everyday Dangers
To be launched on 2 July 2013 at the UN Palais des Nations, Geneva

13.06.2013

Personalized Firearms and Electronic Safety Devices: Perspectives
Conference background paper on 'smart gun' technology

12.06.2013

South Africa's Gun Control Policies: Work in progress
New podcast

03.06.2013

The Arms Trade Treaty: A Step Forward for Small Arms Control?
New Measures & Programmes Research Note on the ATT and other internal small arms instruments.

31.05.2013

Ad Hoc Arsenals
New Armed Actors Issue Brief on PSSM practices of non-state armed groups

23.05.2013

Focus on Libya and North Africa
New Security Assessment in North Africa report and podcast on Libyan ammunition and armed groups.

14.05.2013

Country Focus: Nepal
Four new Nepal Armed Violence Assessment publications launched in Kathmandu.