Recent Publications
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Measuring Illicit Arms Flows: Honduras, November 2016. Research Note No. 62 (also available in Spanish).
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Dribs and Drabs: The Mechanics of Small Arms Trafficking from the United States, March 2016. Issue Brief No. 17.
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On the Record: Illicit Weapons in the United States, by Matt Schroeder, 2014. In Small Arms Survey, Small Arms Survey 2014: Women and Guns.
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Publications on Americas
Central and Latin America
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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.
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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.
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Turning Points: Gang Evolution in Nicaragua (in Spanish). In Small Arms Survey, Small Arms Survey 2013: Everyday Dangers.
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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.
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When Business Gets Bloody: State Policy and Drug Violence, by Benjamin Lessing, 2012. In Small Arms Survey, Small Arms Survey 2012: Moving Targets.
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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.
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Small Arms ID Cards (in Spanish), focusing on small arms more commonly found in Central and South America. Co-published with CERAC.
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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.
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Assessing the Effect of Policy Interventions on Small Arms Demand in Bogotá, Colombia, by Katherine Aguirre et al., co-published with CERAC, December 2009.
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No Other Life: Gangs, Guns, and Governance in Trinidad and Tobago, by Dorn Townsend, December 2009. Working Paper No. 8
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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)
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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.
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(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.
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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)
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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)
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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.
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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)
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North America
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Dribs and Drabs: The Mechanics of Small Arms Trafficking from the United States, March 2016. Issue Brief No. 17.
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On the Record: Illicit Weapons in the United States, by Matt Schroeder, 2014. In Small Arms Survey, Small Arms Survey 2014: Women and Guns.
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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
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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
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