Publications on Americas

Measuring Illicit Arms Flows: Honduras, November 2016. Research Note No. 62 (also available in Spanish).

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Firearms and Violence in Honduras, March 2014. Research Note No. 39, Armed Violence (also available in Spanish).

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Geospatial Technologies and Crime: The Jamaican Experience, October 2013. Armed Violence Issue Brief No. 3.

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Captured and Counted: Illicit Weapons in Mexico and the Philippines, by Matt Schroeder, 2013. In Small Arms Survey, Small Arms Survey 2013: Everyday Dangers.

Turning Points: Gang Evolution in Nicaragua, by Dennis Rodgers and José Luis Rocha, 2013. Also available in Spanish. In Small Arms Survey, Small Arms Survey 2013: Everyday Dangers.

Turning Points: Gang Evolution in Nicaragua (in Spanish). In Small Arms Survey, Small Arms Survey 2013: Everyday Dangers.

A Fatal Relationship: Guns and Deaths in Latin America and the Caribbean, by Elisabeth Gilgen, 2012. In Small Arms Survey, Small Arms Survey 2012: Moving Targets.

When Business Gets Bloody: State Policy and Drug Violence, by Benjamin Lessing, 2012. In Small Arms Survey, Small Arms Survey 2012: Moving Targets.

In Transit: Gangs and Criminal Networks in Guyana, by Taylor Owen and Alexandre Grigsby, February 2012. Working Paper No. 11

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Securing the State: Haiti Before and After the Earthquake, by Athena Kolbe and Robert Muggah, 2011. In Small Arms Survey, Small Arms Survey 2011: States of Security.

Small Arms ID Cards (in Spanish), focusing on small arms more commonly found in Central and South America. Co-published with CERAC.

Confronting the Don: The Political Economy of Gang Violence in Jamaica, by Glaister Leslie, November 2010. Occasional Paper No. 26

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Small Arms in Brazil: Production, Trade, and Holdings, by Pablo Dreyfus, Benjamin Lessing, Marcelo de Sousa Nascimento, and Júlio Cesar Purcena, a joint publication of Viva Rio, ISER, and the Small Arms Survey, September 2010. Special Report No. 11

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An Ecuadorian Alternative: Gang Reintegration, by Vanessa Johnston, 2010. In Small Arms Survey, Small Arms Survey 2010: Gangs, Groups, and Guns.

Assessing the Effect of Policy Interventions on Small Arms Demand in Bogotá, Colombia, by Katherine Aguirre et al., co-published with CERAC, December 2009.

No Other Life: Gangs, Guns, and Governance in Trinidad and Tobago, by Dorn Townsend, December 2009. Working Paper No. 8

Surplus Arms in South America: A Survey, by Aaron Karp, a study by the Small Arms Survey in cooperation with the Conflict Analysis Resource Center (CERAC), August 2009. Working Paper No. 7 (also available in Spanish and Portuguese)

Colombia’s Quiet Demobilization: A Security Dividend?, by Jorge Restrepo and Robert Muggah, 2009. In Robert Muggah, ed. Security and Post-Conflict Reconstruction: Dealing with fighters in the aftermath of war, published by Routledge.

(Dis)integrating DDR in Sudan and Haiti? Practitioners Views to Overcoming Integration Inertia, by Robert Muggah, Desmond Molloy, and Maximo Halty, 2009. In Robert Muggah, ed. Security and Post-Conflict Reconstruction: Dealing with fighters in the aftermath of war, published by Routledge.

Social Integration, Ergo, Stabilization - Viva Rio in Port-au-Prince, by Helen Moestue and Robert Muggah, co-published with Viva Rio, 2009. (available in English, French and Portuguese)

Small Arms in Rio de Janeiro: The Guns, the Buyback, and the Victims, by Pablo Dreyfus, Luis Eduardo Guedes, Ben Lessing, Antônio Rangel Bandeira, Marcelo de Sousa Nascimento, and Patricia Silveira Rivero, a study by the Small Arms Survey, Viva Rio, and ISER, December 2008. Special Report No. 9

Mapping the Divide: Firearm Violence and Urbanization In Brazil, by Rubem César Fernandes and Marcelo de Sousa Nascimento, 2007. In Small Arms Survey, Small Arms Survey 2007: Guns and the City.

Fernandes, Rubem César, and Marcelo de Sousa Nascimento. 2007. Mapping the Divide: Firearm Violence and Urbanization In Brazil. In Small Arms Survey, Small Arms Survey 2007: Guns and the City. 

Enemy Within: Ammunition Diversion in Uganda and Brazil, by James Bevan and Pablo Dreyfus, 2007. In Small Arms Survey, Small Arms Survey 2007: Guns and the City.

Securing Haiti’s Transition: Reviewing Human Insecurity and the Prospects for Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration, by Robert Muggah, November 2005. Occasional Paper No. 14 (also available in French)

Aproximación a la Situación de Violencia e Inseguridad en Bogotá D.C., by Katherine Aguirre and Jorge A. Restrepo with Simón Mesa and Nicolás Suárez, co-published with CERAC, July 2005.

Firearm-related Violence in Brazil, co-published with the Pan American Health Organization and the World Health Organization, coordinated by Maria Fernanda Tourinho Peres, November 2004. (Summary report also available)

Stray Bullets: The Impact of Small Arms Misuse in Central America, by William Godnick, with Robert Muggah and Camilla Waszink, October 2002. Occasional Paper No. 5 (also available in Spanish)

Dribs and Drabs: The Mechanics of Small Arms Trafficking from the United States, March 2016. Issue Brief No. 17.

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The US Firearms Industry: Production and Supply, by Jurgen Brauer, February 2013. Working Paper No. 14.

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A Guide to the US Small Arms Market, Industry, and Exports, by Tamar Gabelnick, Maria Haug, and Lora Lumpe, September 2006. Occasional Paper No. 19

Disposal of Surplus Small Arms: A survey of policies and practices in OSCE countries, co-published with BICC, Saferworld, and BASIC, edited by Sami Faltas and Vera Chrobok, January 2004