Resources tagged 'Small Arms and Light Weapons Impacts'

The webinar regional workshop titled “Complementarities and Synergies of International and Regional Treaties in Latin America,” held on December 12, 2024, was organized by IANSA in collaboration with the University for Peace of Costa Rica. The event was designed for representatives of IANSA member organizations and other professionals working on small arms control. It featured […]

Small arms and light weapons (SALW) are widely available and easy to use, so they are the most prominent tools in contemporary armed conflicts as well as in armed criminal and interpersonal violence in non-conflict settings. To grasp the global scale of SALW proliferation and the patterns of violence committed with SALW, this briefing paper […]

This paper examines how arms control and disarmament efforts can contribute to solving the multifaceted challenges of the African Union (AU) project called “Silencing the Guns”. This project was initiated in 2013 on the 50th anniversary of the AU with the aim of ending all wars in Africa by 2020. The project forms a part […]

This brief answers the following questions: How do illicit flows of SALW undermine sustainable development? What can be done to prevent illicit flows of SALW undermining development? How can Implementing the PoA, the International Tracing Instrument and the UN Firearms Protocol help achieve the SDGs?