One of the key objectives of the Small Arms Survey is to work with and support a wide variety of partner institutions. Our partners conduct research and gather relevant data and information for our publications.
Amnesty International is a worldwide campaigning movement that works to promote internationally recognized human rights. Our mission is to undertake research and action focused on preventing and ending grave abuses of the rights to physical and mental integrity, freedom of conscience and expression, and freedom from discrimination, within the context of our work to promote all human rights.
Amnesty International is a worldwide campaigning movement that works to promote internationally recognized human rights. Our mission is to undertake research and action focused on preventing and ending grave abuses of the rights to physical and mental integrity, freedom of conscience and expression, and freedom from discrimination, within the context of our work to promote all human rights.
The Bar Ilan University Program on Conflict Resolution was initiated in 1997, with graduate studies (MA and PhD) beginning in the 2000 academic year. Since its inception, the Program has served as a successful catalyst for the transformation of Israeli society by employing conflict prevention, management, and resolution in the following frameworks: Regional and National, Business, Community and Family.
BASIC is an independent research organization that analyzes government policies and promotes public awareness of defence, disarmament, military strategy and nuclear policies in order to foster informed debate.
The overall goals of the Center are to promote the development of emergency systems to meet the needs of those in less developed settings, including refugees, displaced persons and disaster victims through applied research, publications, training, and technical assistance in support of more effective health services and allied programmes.
The Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue is an international organisation registered under Swiss law and based in Geneva. It is an independent and impartial organisation working for the promotion of humanitarian dialogue. It facilitates dialogue among the principal humanitarian actors, stakeholders and aid recipients to enhance understanding of acute and future humanitarian problems. It also promotes efforts to design more effective operational approaches to humanitarian assistance.
Based in Bogotá, Colombia, CERAC is a private research organization specialized in data-intensive studies of conflict and criminal violence. It investigates the spatial and temporal dynamics of violence from a variety of methodological perspectives, with a strong focus on human impact. CERAC was established in December 2004 by an international and multidisciplinary group of researchers. Current research topics include human security, conflict analysis, conflict measurement, and urban security.
The CPC plays a key role in supporting the OSCE's activities in the field, assisting the implementation of their mandates. In OSCE-parlance, this means the Centre is responsible for supporting the Organization's Chairman-in-Office (CiO) and the Secretary General in implementing OSCE tasks in the areas of: early warning; conflict prevention; crisis management; and post-conflict rehabilitation.
The Department for International Development (DFID) is the UK Government department responsible for promoting development and the reduction of poverty.
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The future success of efforts to deal with the problem of armed violence and other threats to human security will depend in large part on the development of accurate and accessible information. Currently, much of the existing information on these topics is produced in English. For the 670 million Spanish and Portuguese speakers in the world, the scarcity or inaccessibility of information in these languages hinders development of concerted efforts to curb armed violence. Recognizing the need to fill this important gap, Viva Rio, in collaboration with other NGOs in the MERCOSUR region, has developed a website with news and information in Spanish and Portuguese on disarmament and human security.
Europa World reports on international development and humanitarian actions of European institutions, governments and NGOs, including European-based United Nations agencies. Its purpose is to inform, explain and entertain.
The Programme for International Co-operation and Conflict Resolution (PICCR) is an umbrella programme for Fafo AIS initiatives related to the policies and practices of international responses to armed conflict. PICCR is actively engaged with other non-governmental organisations, governments, and multilateral institutions in efforts to understand and promote sustainable conflict resolution, effective multilateral co-operation and efficient international organisation. PICCR is involved in research and dialogue activities that encourage and support principles of multilateralism and international co-operation in responding to armed conflict.
The FAS Arms Sales Monitoring Project works for transparency, accountability and deep reductions in global conventional weapons production and trade. Its aim is to prevent dangerous and wasteful military build-ups, and thereby reduce the likelihood of warfare and the lethality of warfare when it does occur.
Forum on Early Warning and Early Response
A global and multi-disciplinary coalition of organisations, which provide early warning and inform peace-building.
GRIP's main aims are study, research, information and training on problems of peace, defence and disarmament with a view to improving international security in Europe and throughout the world. GRIP studies in particular the way in which the arms race operates and how security and defence needs are assessed.
Since 1997, Gun Policy News has been providing daily global and regional e-mail digests and RSS feeds of gun news and small arms policy-related articles published in mass media. The gunpolicy.org Web site is hosted by the School of Public Health at the University of Sydney. To receive your own news feed, visit the gunpolicy.org Web site.
Human Rights Watch is dedicated to protecting the human rights of people around the world. We stand with victims and activists to prevent discrimination, to uphold political freedom, to protect people from inhumane conduct in wartime, and to bring offenders to justice. We investigate and expose human rights violations and hold abusers accountable. We challenge governments and those who hold power to end abusive practices and respect international human rights law. We enlist the public and the international community to support the cause of human rights for all.
The Centre's mission is to make human security-related research more accessible to the policy and research communities, the media, educators and the interested public. Its flagship publication, the annual Human Security Report, is complemented by the electronic Human Security Gateway, and two online bulletins, Human Security News and Human Security Research.
The Human Security Program of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) is one of Canada's proactive mechanisms for addressing the human dimensions of globalisation. The Program invests strategically in initiatives that strengthen the ability of the global community to respond to threats to Human Security and support peaceful governance.
Aims to conduct and support research in injury prevention and control and promote safety in African countries. To develop and conduct training programs in injury prevention and acute trauma care. To undertake advocacy for the prevention and control of injuries, to influence both the general population and leadership in member countries.
The ISS aims to conceptualise, inform and enhance the security debate in Africa through: independent applied research and analysis; facilitating and supporting policy formulation; raising awareness of decision-makers and the public; monitoring trends and policy implementation; collecting, interpreting and disseminating information; national, regional and international networking; and capacity-building.
The International Action Network on Small Arms is the global network of civil society organisations working to stop the proliferation and misuse of small arms and light weapons (SALW). World attention is increasingly focused on the humanitarian impact of these weapons, and IANSA brings together the voices and activities of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and concerned individuals across the world to prevent their deadly effects.
International Alert seeks to strengthen the ability of people in conflict situations to make peace by: facilitating dialogue at different levels and sectors of society in conflict helping to develop and enhance local capacities - through, for example, funding or training peace-oriented development work amongst grassroots organisations and local peace-building initiatives and encouraging the international community to address the structural causes of conflict.
The International Crisis Group (ICG) is an independent, non-profit, multinational organisation, with over 80 staff members on five continents, working through field-based analysis and high-level advocacy to prevent and resolve deadly conflict. ICG's approach is grounded in field research. Teams of political analysts are located within or close by countries at risk of outbreak, escalation or recurrence of violent conflict. Based on information and assessments from the field, ICG produces regular analytical reports containing practical recommendations targeted at key international decision-makers.
IPIS is an independent study and information service, covering international relations in general and conflicts in particular. The information service operates as an intermediary between journalists, the research community, and peace, human rights and Third World movements. It offers a large collection of specialised journals, monographs and other documents, which can be consulted at the IPIS library. IPIS publishes its own study series on topical problems, and reviews its library's new acquisitions in the quarterly magazine IPIS-Informatief.
The Program on Security and Development (SAND) is an organization that focuses on documenting, investigating and consulting on practical measures that can be undertaken to improve security and the conditions for basic development in the regions of the world affected by the proliferation and indiscriminate use of small arms and light weapons.
NISAT combines the resources and networks of its partner organizations to help block the spread of small arms to areas where they are likely to be used in warfare, armed violence or human rights abuses.
Founded in April 1994, the Moscow-based Center for Policy Studies in Russia (PIR Center) is an independent NGO that carries out research, provides consulting services, and is involved in educational, public awareness, and publishing activities. The Center's priority areas are international security, arms (primarily nuclear) control, and nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
QUNO is a non-governmental organisation focusing on human rights, refugees, peace and disarmament, and trade and development. QUNO acts to promote dialogue and understanding on human rights issues by hosting informal, off-the-record discussions to enable government representatives from different regions of the world to meet and consider sensitive issues.
The Regional Centre for Strategic Studies (RCSS) is an independent, non-profit and non-governmental organization for collaborative research, networking and interaction on strategic and international issues pertaining to South Asia. Themes relating to regional security, conflicts and co-operation constitute the principal focus of work. The RCSS serves its South Asian and international constituency by: networking programmes that promote interaction, communication and exchange between institutions and individuals within and outside the region engaged in South Asian strategic studies; organizing regional workshops & seminars and sponsoring & co-ordinating collaborative research; and disseminating output of the research through publications which include books, monographs and a quarterly newsletter.
Regional Human Security Centre, Jordan
The Centre seeks to promote awareness of human security issues in the countries of the Middle East. More specifically, it seeks to do the following: identify common issues threatening the human security of people in the Middle East; serve as a forum where practitioners, experts, and academics can discuss and propose working solutions for human security threats; submit relevant recommendations and solutions to policy makers; raise the level of awareness of human security issues among practitioners and policy makers; serve as a source of information on human security issues in the Middle East; and conduct full-scale studies on human security issues.
Saferworld is an independent foreign affairs think tank working to identify, develop and publicise more effective approaches to preventing armed conflict. Saferworld has two research programmes: Arms and Security and Conflict Prevention.
SEESAC is a component of the Regional Implementation Plan on Combating the Proliferation of Small Arms and Light Weapons formulated and adopted by the Stability Pact in November 2001, with the aims of stopping the flow and availability of SALW in the region, consolidating achievements so far and supporting the socio-economic conditions for peace and development in South East Europe.
Small Arms Firearms Education and Research Network (SAFER-Net), Canada
The purpose of SAFER-Net is to provide current research regarding: the impact of small arms/firearms on health and safety on an international basis; national profiles, including approaches to small arms/firearms regulation and efforts to prevent misuse and proliferation; and links to sources of information in academic, scientific and governmental publications.
The task of the Institute is to conduct research on questions of conflict and cooperation that are of importance for international peace and security, with the aim of contributing to an understanding of the conditions for peaceful solutions of international conflicts and for a stable peace.
Proposing new ideas for security thinking, UNIDIR's work brings together security, disarmament and development so that all forms of security - national, regional, global - are recognized as true manifestations of human security.
UNDP provides a range of services to governments and to United Nations teams in the following practice areas: Democratic Governance; Poverty Reduction; Crisis Prevention and Recovery; Energy and Environment; Information and Communications Technology; and HIV/AIDS. These are geared to engage in global advocacy and analysis to generate knowledge, alliance building and promotion of enabling frameworks on key issues, policy advice and support for national capacity building, and knowledge networking and sharing of good practices.
The UN Office for Disarmament Affairs (ODA) provides substantive support for the role of the United Nations in preventing the proliferation of conventional weapons. Within the UN, ODA is responsible for the 'UN Coordinated Action on Small Arms', bringing together all 16 UN agencies for which the issue of small arms is relevant—from UNICEF and UNDP to UNHCR and the WHO. The Office services UN meetings under the 2001 Programme of Action on the illicit trade in small arms and light weapons, and organizes regional implementation workshops and seminars. ODA's Conventional Arms Branch is a natural partner for the Small Arms Survey for cooperation both on the global and regional levels.
The regional centres, like the one in Lima, serve as useful extensions of the Department of Disarmament Affairs (DDA), in locations away from Headquarters. They act as platforms for discussing multilateral approaches to alleviate the risks of war and for adapting them to the regional context. They are catalysts within the UN system to foster debates and activities aimed at enhancing both security and development initiatives.
Com o apoio da populaão, o Viva Rio desenvolve campanhas de paz e projetos sociais em cinco áreas: direitos humanos e segurança pública, desenvolvimento comunitário, educação, esportes e meio ambiente. Hoje atua em cerca de 350 favelas e comunidades de baixa renda da Região Metropolitana do Rio de Janeiro, sempre em parceria com entidades locais, investindo principalmente nos jovens, mais vulneráveis aos riscos sociais, e buscando a superação da violência.
Building on the work of the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict, goals of the Project include creating a forum for dialogue and exchange between policymakers, scholars and practitioners; contributing knowledge, experience and suggestions for implementing conflict prevention strategies; and encouraging policy focus and coordination efforts in the conflict prevention communities.
The Arms Trade Resource Center was established in 1993 to engage in public education and policy advocacy aimed at promoting restraint in the international arms trade. The Center performs research on the U.S. weapons trade and U.S. arms sales policy, and it publishes reports, magazine articles, and op-ed pieces on the issue. We also serve as a resource for the media, citizen's organizations, members of Congress, and executive branch policymakers.
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