Book Series

Designed to complement the annual Small Arms Survey and the periodical papers, our book series presents the findings of larger research projects. PDFs are available here.
 
 

'Primed and Purposeful':
Armed Groups and
Human Security Efforts
in the Philippines

'The Politics of Destroying
Surplus Small Arms':
Inconspicuous Disarmament

'Insecurity Is Also a War':
An Assessment of Armed
Violence in Burundi

Security and Post-Conflict
Reconstruction:
Dealing with fighters in
the aftermath of war

The Central African Republic
and Small Arms:
A Regional Tinderbox

Ammunition Tracing Kit:
Protocols and procedures
for recording small-calibre
ammunition

Afghanistan, Arms and
Conflict: Armed groups,
disarmament and security
in a post-war society

Conventional Ammunition
in Surplus: A Reference
Guide

No Refuge: The Crisis
of Refugee Militarization
in Africa

Targeting Ammunition:
A Primer

Armed and Aimless:
Armed Groups, Guns,
and Human Security in
the ECOWAS Region

Armés mais désoeuvrés:
Group armés, armes légères
et sécurité humaine dans
la région de la Cedeao

edited by Robert Muggah, July 2006
co-published with Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC) by Zed Books.

press release: NY launch, July 2006
press release: Geneva launch, September 2006

The militarization of refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs), especially in Africa, is causing growing alarm within the humanitarian and development commonities. The planned and spontaneous arming of refugees and IDPs threatens access to asylum as well as protection. But while the policy debates rage over how to deal with armed refugees and how to prevent their spillover into neighbouring countries, surprisingly little research has been done to explain why displaced people arm themselves or how militarization affects the local and host populations. This book traces the experience of refugee and IDP militarization in four African countries emerging from or affected by war: Guinea, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda. It considers the effects of such militarization on regional, national, and human security, and reflects on the responses of hosting governments and humanitarian organizations.


To order No Refuge, contact Zed Books.