Regional Organizations & the PoA
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Regional Organizations and the UN Programme of Action on Small Arms (PoA)
Second Edition. By Eric G. Berman and Kerry Maze, June 2016
Profiles 52 regional organizations, explaining their role in implementing the PoA.
Regional organizations have an important function in the control of small arms, as illicit small arms are often related to regional conflicts and smuggled regionally. Transborder cooperation, information sharing, and regionally harmonized marking and tracing are essential elements of an effective small arms control mechanism.
This Handbook provides a wealth of information on regional activities, and draws some useful connections among the antinarcotic, anti-terrorism, and anti-transnational-crime communities.
- An online version of the Handbook in English is available here
- The first edition of the Handbook is available in French
- Profiles of regional organizations covered in the Handbook are also available in Spanish.
Download the sections:
- Preliminary pages: Contents, Preface, Foreword, Acknowledgements.
Download (110.52 KB)
- Part I: Introduction and Overview Download (628.62 KB)
- Part II: Profiles of Regional Organizations
Africa Download (4.47 MB)
- Americas Download (1.65 MB)
- Asia Download (2.96 MB)
- Europe Download (2.84 MB)
- Oceania Download (808.72 KB)
- Part III: Annexes Download (190.96 KB)
- Part IV: Sources Download (88.68 KB)
- Guide to the symbols used in the Handbook Download (218.34 KB)
