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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
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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
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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
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12.11.2018
New Handbook
An Introductory Guide to the Identification of Small Arms, Light Weapons, and Associated Ammunition
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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
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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’
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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
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18.12.2015
New Research Note
Recoilless Weapons
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17.12.2015
New Issue Brief
Voicing Concern: Surveying People’s Priorities in Violent Settings
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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
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08.05.2015
Press Release
Every Body Counts: Violent deaths decrease; yet armed conflict grows more lethal
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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.
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13.04.2015
Measuring armed violence reduction and prevention for peaceful and inclusive societies
Ancillary Meeting at UN Crime Congress, Friday 17 April, Doha.
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26.03.2015
Designing MANPADS to prevent proliferation
New Issue Brief
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25.03.2015
Unplanned Explosions at Munitions Sites - 1979 to 2014
Updated online tool
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18.03.2015
Behind the Curve: New Technologies, New Control Challenges
New Occasional Paper
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18.03.2015
One Meeting After Another: UN Process Update
New Issue Brief
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16.03.2015
Reducing Illicit Arms Flows and the New Development Agenda
New Research Note
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06.03.2015
Every Body Counts: Measuring Violent Deaths
New Research Note
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04.03.2015
Automatic Grenade Launchers
New Research Note
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20.02.2015
Lord's Resistance Army update
Facts and Figures from the HSBA for Sudan and South Sudan
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20.02.2015
From Replica to Real: An Introduction to Firearms Conversions
New Issue Brief
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09.02.2015
Reporting from the Frontline: Weapons identification for journalists
New podcast
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12.01.2015
Armed Groups and Guided Light Weapons: 2014 Update with MENA Focus
New Research Note and updated database
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24.12.2014
The ATT comes into force
Survey analysis explains the impacts for transfers of small arms and light weapons
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22.13.2014
Happy holidays from the Survey team
We're moving to our new offices at the Maison de la Paix
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25.11.2014
Violence, Women, and Guns
International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
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18.11.2014
The Highway Routes: Small Arms Smuggling in Eastern Nepal
New Issue Brief from the Nepal Armed Violence Assessment
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13.11.2014
Contested Borders: Continuing Tensions over the Sudan–South Sudan Border
New Working Paper from the HSBA for Sudan and South Sudan
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04.11.2014
Countering Improvised Explosive Devices
New Research Note
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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
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10.10.2014
Arms Trade Treaty: Model Law
New Co-publication with the New Zealand Government
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08.10.2014
Women and Gun Ownership
New Research Note
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06.10.2014
Women and Guns
Vienna launch and video overview of Small Arms Survey 2014
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02.09.2014
Firearm Suicides
New Research Note
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28.08.2014
Searching for Stability: Perceptions of Security, Justice, and Firearms in Libya
New Security Assessment in North Africa Issue Brief
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19.08.2014
Fire and Forget: The Proliferation of Man-portable Air Defence Systems in Syria
New Small Arms Survey Issue Brief
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12.08.2014
Profiling Ammunition
Global Focus
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07.08.2014
Producers of Small Arms, Light Weapons, and Their Ammunition
New Research Note
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29.07.2014
Feeding the Fire: Illicit Small Arms Ammunition in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Somalia
New Small Arms Survey Issue Brief
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24.07.2014
Rogue Rocketeers: Artillery Rockets and Armed Groups
New Working Paper
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21.07.2014
Armed groups' guided weapons, MANPADs, and attacks on aircraft
Research Notes
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14.7.2014
Identifying Sources: Small-calibre Ammunition in Côte d'IvoireNew Special Report
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18.6.2014
Unplanned explosions at munitions sitesNew Handbook available
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17.6.2014
Documenting Weapons in Situations of Armed Conflictweapons and markets Research Note
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17.6.2014
Implementation of the PoASeveral resources released a BMS5
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13.6.2014
Small Arms Survey at BMS5Side events, 16 to 20 June 2014
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5.6.2014
Small Arms Survey 2013: Everyday DangersAll chapters now available online
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5.6.2014
Small Arms Survey 2013: Everyday DangersAll chapters now available online
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4.6.2014
Armed actors and arms trafficking in North Africa, South Sudan and SudanBriefing by the Small Arms Survey on 17 June 2014, Washington DC
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27.5.2014
Small Arms Survey 2014: Women and GunsComing soon: to be launched 16 June 2014
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13.5.2014
Taking Stock of Excess Stockpiles: UEMS in South-east EuropeNew Measures and Programmes Research Note
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13.5.2014
Small Arms of the Indian State: A Century of Procurement and ProductionIssue Brief from the India Armed Violence assessment: Now in HindiRead more
12.5.2014
Weapons tracing in Sudan and South SudanNew Working Paper from the HSBA for Sudan and South Sudan
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7.5.2014
The UEMS Incident Reporting TemplateNew Measures and Programmes Research Note
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28.4.2014
Excess Arms in South SudanIssue Brief: Security forces and surplus management
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11.4.2014
Inclusive Cities, Inclusive SecurityNew Geneva Declaration Policy Paper
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11.4.2014
Firearms and Violence in HondurasNew Armed Violence Research NoteRead more
8.4.2014
Syria: Ammunition and Foreign JihadismNew Working Paper and Dispatch from the Security Assessment in North Africa
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4.2.2014
Libya’s Fractious South and Regional InstabilityNew Dispatch from the Security Assessment in North Africa
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31.1.2014
Traditional Military RiflesNew Weapons and Markets Research NoteRead more
16.1.2014
Small Arms of the Indian State: A Century of Procurement and ProductionNew Issue Brief from the India Armed Violence assessmentRead more
11.1.2014
South Sudan: Crisis in Unity StateUpdate from the HSBA for Sudan and South SudanRead more
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
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
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24.07.2013
‘Infernal Machines’: Improvised Explosive Devices
Chapter from Small Arms Survey 2013: Everyday Dangers
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23.07.2013
'FAL Rifles in Libya: A Guide to Data Gathering'
New Dispatch from the Security Assessment in North Africa
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28.06.2013
'Armed Groups’ Holdings of Guided Light Weapons'
New Armed Actors Research Note
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21.06.2013
Small Arms Survey 2012: Moving Targets
All chapters now available to download
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20.06.2013
Small Arms Survey 2013: Everyday Dangers
To be launched on 2 July 2013 at the UN Palais des Nations, Geneva
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13.06.2013
Personalized Firearms and Electronic Safety Devices: Perspectives
Conference background paper on 'smart gun' technology
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12.06.2013
South Africa's Gun Control Policies: Work in progress
New podcast
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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.
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31.05.2013
Ad Hoc Arsenals
New Armed Actors Issue Brief on PSSM practices of non-state armed groups
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23.05.2013
Focus on Libya and North Africa
New Security Assessment in North Africa report and podcast on Libyan ammunition and armed groups.Read more
14.05.2013
Country Focus: Nepal
Four new Nepal Armed Violence Assessment publications launched in Kathmandu.Read more