Issue Briefs
Small Arms Survey Issue Briefs each offer a concise overview of a specific, policy-relevant topic, often as part of a series resulting from one of the Survey's Focus Projects.
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Precedent in the Making: The UN Meeting of Governmental Experts, March 2012. Issue Brief No. 5
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Weapons Tracing and Peace Support Operations: Theory or Practice?, March 2012. Issue Brief No. 4
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Ammunition Marking: Current Practices and Future Possibilities, December 2011. Issue Brief No. 3
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Scraping the Barrel: The Trade in Surplus Ammunition, April 2011. Issue Brief No. 2
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The Method behind the Mark: A Review of Firearm Marking Technologies, December 2010. Issue Brief No. 1
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The Regional Approach to Stockpile Reduction (RASR) Initiative
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Buy and Burn: Factoring Demilitarization into Ammunition Procurement, April 2012. A joint publication of the Regional Approach for Stockpile Reduction, the US Department of State's Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement, and the Small Arms Survey. Issue Brief No. 2
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India Armed Violence Assessment
- Mapping Murder: The Geography of Indian Firearm Fatalities, September 2011. Issue Brief No. 2
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- India's States of Armed Violence: Assessing the Human Cost and Political Priorities, September 2011. Issue Brief No. 1
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Lebanon Armed Violence Assessment
- Security Provision in Southern Lebanon: Surveying Public Opinion, May 2010. Issue Brief No. 1
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Liberia Armed Violence Assessment
- Reading between the Lines: Crime and Victimization in Liberia, September 2011. Issue Brief No. 2
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- A Legacy of War? Perceptions of Security in Liberia, September 2011. Issue Brief No. 1.
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Timor-Leste Armed Violence Assessment
- After the guns fall silent: Sexual and gender-based violence in
Timor-Leste, November 2009. Issue Brief No. 5
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- Tracking violence in Timor-Leste: A sample of emergency room data, 2006-08, October 2009. Issue Brief No. 4
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- Electoral violence in Timor-Leste: mapping incidents and responses, June 2009. Issue Brief No. 3
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- Groups, gangs, and armed violence in Timor-Leste, April 2009. Issue Brief No. 2
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- Dealing with the kilat: An historical overview of small arms availability and arms control in Timor-Leste, October 2008. Issue Brief No. 1
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Yemen Armed Violence Assessment
Sudan Human Security Baseline Assessment
Sudan HSBA Issue Briefs are listed separately.


