Working Papers and Other Activities

Working Papers

External Publications by Small Arms Survey Staff

Batchelor, Peter and Glenn McDonald. 2006. 'Too Close for Comfort: An Analysis of the UN Tracing Negotiations.' Disarmament Forum. Vol. 4 (2005)–1 (2006), pp. 39–47.

Bevan, James. 2007. Connecting paradigms: MANPADS in the national and human security debates. Disarmament Forum. No. 1, pp. 43-52.
—. 2007. 'Where Have All the Antonovs Gone? The Illicit Small Arms Trade in Africa.' FAS Public Interest Report. Vol. 60, No. 1, pp. 10–11. Winter.

Brauer, Jurgen and Robert Muggah. 2006. 'Completing the Circle: Building a Theory of Small Arms Demand.' Contemporary Security Policy, Vol. 27, No. 1 (April), pp. 138–54.

Dreyfus, Pablo. 2007. 'A Recurrent Latin American Nightmare: Venezuela and the Challenge of Controlling State Ammunition Stockpiles.' FAS Public Interest Report. Vol. 60, No. 1, pp. 8 –9. Winter.

'Driving Change: Developing Firearms Policy for Safer Societies.' 2006. Conference paper. International Convention Centre, Durban, South Africa. 31 March–1 April.

Florquin, Nicolas. 2006. 'The Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons.' International Institute for Asian Studies. Newsletter 42. October.

Muggah, Robert. 1999. Why Should We Have a Humanitarian Perspective on Small Arms? Humanitarian Exchange. 19 September.
—. 2002. Pourquoi devrait-on avoir une perspective humanitaire sur les armes légères? April.
—. 2002. Hard Choices: A Critical Review of UNHCR’s Community Development Approach in Nepal. Humanitarian Exchange. 22 November.
—. 2003. In the Line of Fire: Surveying the Impact of Small Arms on Civilians and Relief Workers Humanitarian Exchange. 25 December.
—. 2003. Humanitarian Exchange Magazine 25. December.
—. 2004. Where There is No Information: IDP Vulnerability in Sri Lanka’s ‘uncleared’ areas. Humanitarian Exchange. 28 November.
—. 2005. A Crisis Turning Inwards: Refugee and IDP Militarisation in Uganda. Humanitarian Exchange. 29 March.
—. 2005. No Relief: Surveying the Effects of Gun Violence on Humanitarian and Development Personnel. Humanitarian Exchange. June.
—. 2005. No Relief: Surveying the Effects of Gun Violence on Aid Workers. Humanitarian Exchange. 31 September.
—. 2006. Reflections on disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration in Sudan. Humanitarian Exchange. April.
—. 2006. 'Emerging from the Shadow of War: A Critical Perspective on DDR and Weapons Reduction in the Post-Conflict Period.' Contemporary Security Policy, Vol. 27, No. 1 (April), pp. 190–205.
—. 2006. Reflections on DDR in Sudan. Humanitarian Practice Network.
—. 2006. How Darfur Can Get Worse. Op-ed in the Ottawa Citizen. 27 November.
—. 2007. 'Great expectations: (dis)integrated DDR in Sudan and Haiti.' Humanitarian Exchange. No. 37. March.
—. 2008. 'A country spins out of control.' Toronto Star. 24 February. (See also, 'Sri Lanka sliding into humanitarian nightmare.' TamilNet. 25 February.)

— and Keith Krause. 2006. ' A True Measure of Success? The Discourse and Practice of Human Security in Haiti.' Whitehead Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations, Winter/Spring.

Wille, Christina. 2006. 'Finding the Evidence: The Links Between Weapon Collection Programmes, Gun Use and Homicide Rates in Cambodia.' African Security Review, Vol. 15, No. 2.
—. 2007. 'Risks to security in Central Asia: an assessment from a small arms perspective.' Disarmament Forum.
No. 4, pp. 33-44.

Further Reading

Muggah, Robert. 2007. 'A surefire way to reduce the violence: No more arms to Sudan.' Op-ed in Globe and Mail. 24 August.

—. 2007. ‘How the world fails internally displaced people.' Op-ed in the Ottawa Citizen . 7 July.

Nathan, Laurie and Robert Muggah. 2007. ‘A negotiated Darfur settlement has fallen out of reach.' Op-ed in Globe and Mail . 16 November.

Cukier, Wendy and Victor W. Sidel. 2005. The Global Gun Epidemic: From Saturday Night Specials to AK-47s.
Westport, CT: Praeger Security International General.

Stohl, Rachel, Matthew Schroeder, and Dan Smith. 2006. The Arms Trade: A Beginner's Guide. Oxford: Oneworld Publications.

Contemporary Art and Small Arms

Chapter from the Small Arms Survey 2005: Shooting Gallery: An Introduction to Guns in Contemporary Art (in English, Pdf 1.42 MB)

Exhibition: Tania Inowlocki of the Small Arms Survey curated a three-artist exhibition on the perception of small arms at the international emerging art fair Preview Berlin, 29 September to 3 October 2006. See invite and press release as well as selected press coverage: Tagesspiegel, Kunstmarkt, Vernissage.tv. For more information, please contact Tania Inowlocki.

Interview: Guy Degen of Deutsche Welle's Inside Europe radio programme interviews Tania Inowlocki on guns in contemporary art (9 December 2006): Should Artists Be Allowed to Use Real Guns in Their Artwork?
Download interview (2.5 MB)
(Full programme: link to 25 MB MP3 file, art segment begins around the 40th minute)

Draft Papers