Illicit Brokering

Small Arms Survey Publications

Cattaneo, Silvia. 2004. Targeting the Middlemen: Controlling Brokering Activities. In Small Arms Survey 2004: Rights at Risk.

Capie, David. 2002. Small Arms Production and Transfers in Southeast Asia. Paper No. 146. Canberra: Australian National University.

Berlinck, Deborah, and Spyros Demetriou. 2001. Fuelling the Flames: Brokers and Transport Agents. In Small Arms Survey 2001: Profiling the Problem.


Other Articles, Books, and Journals

Farah, Douglas, and Stephen Braun. 2007. Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes, and the Man who makes War Possible. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley and Sons Inc.

UNIDIR, Small Arms Survey and United Nation Department for Disarmament Affairs. Developing a Mechanism to Prevent Illicit Brokering in Small Arms and Light Weapons - Scope and Implications . United Nations, January..

Amnesty International (Australia). 2006. Growing network of arms brokers and transporters fuelling killings, rape, and torture. May.

Amnesty International and Transarms. 2006. Dead on Time: Arms Transportation, Brokering, and the Threat to Human Rights.

IRIN. 2006. Guns out of Control: The Continuing Threat of Small Arms . In-depth report. June

Wood, Brian. 2006. A world of arms pushers and fixers. Amnesty International Dossier published in Le monde diplomatique. June.

Wood, Brian. 2006. Strengthening compliance with EU arms embargoes: key challenges for monitoring and verification. In United Nations Department for Disarmament Affairs (ed). DDA Occasional Papers , no. 10.

Amnesty International. 2005. Democratic Republic of Congo: Arming the East.

Wood, Brian. 2005. Action to Prevent Illicit Arms Brokering: Suggestions for Action by the European Union and its Partners. Geneva: UNIDIR.

Human Rights Watch 2003. Weapons Sanctions, Military Supplies, and Human Suffering: Illegal Arms Flows to Liberia and the June-July 2003 Shelling of Monrovia. Briefing Paper. New York: Human Rights Watch.

Global Witness. 2002. All the President's Men: The Devastating Story of Oil and Banking in Angola's Privatised War.

Verlöy, André. N.d. 2002. The Merchant of Death. The Centre for Public Integrity. 20 November.

Clegg, Elizabeth and Michael Crowley. 2001. Controlling Arms Brokering and Transport Agents: Time for International Action. Briefing Paper No. 8, Biting the Bullet (BASIC, International Alert, Saferworld).

Lumpe, Lora (ed.). 2000. Running Guns: The Global Black Market in Small Arms. London: Zed Books.

Phythian, Mark. 2000. 'The Illicit Arms Trade: Cold War and Post-Cold War.' Crime, Law and Social Change.
Vol. 33(1), pp. 1-52.

Silverstein, Ken. 2000. Private Warriors. London and New York: Verso.

Peleman, Johann and Brian Wood. 1999. The Arms Fixers. Controlling the Brokers and Shipping Agents. A Joint Report by BASIC, NISAT and PRIO.


Further Resources

SIPRI Yearbooks
Amnesty International
Frontline World, Gallery of Arms Dealers
Groupe de recherche et d'information sur la paix et la sécurité
Institute for Security Studies
Norwegian Initiative on Small Arms Transfers
United Nations Security Council, Sanctions Committees
IANSA
Control Arms