Small Arms Survey 2007: Guns and the City

Submitted by Olivia Denonville on 10 June, 2021

The Small Arms Survey 2007: Guns and the City offers new and updated information on small arms production, stockpiles, transfers, and measures, including a special focus on transfer controls.

This year’s thematic section explores the complex issue of urban violence with case studies on Burundi and Brazil as well as a photo essay by award-winning combat photographer Lucian Read. This edition also features chapters on lessons learned from the tracing of ammunition, the relationship between gun prices and conflict, and the role of small arms in South Sudan.

Small Arms Survey 2008: Risk and Resilience

Submitted by Olivia Denonville on 10 June, 2021

The Small Arms Survey 2008: Risk and Resilience presents two thematic sections.
The first examines the problem of diversion as related to stockpiles, international transfers, and end-user documentation. It includes a case study on South Africa and a comic strip illustrating the potential ease by which someone with access to forged documentation can make arrangements to ship munitions virtually anywhere.

Small Arms Survey Podcast #14: Small Arms Survey 2013: Everyday Dangers - Part 2

Submitted by Lionel Kosirnik on 3 June, 2021

Each year the Small Arms Survey yearbook presents several chapters update specific recurring themes. In the second instalment of the podcast on this year's edition, Small Arms Survey 2013: Everyday Dangers, Yearbook Coordinator Glenn McDonald introduces the chapters on international regulation of small arms, demilitarization, and improvised explosive devices (IEDs).

Small Arms Survey Podcast #19: On the Edge? Trafficking and Insecurity at the Tunisian–Libyan Border

Submitted by Lionel Kosirnik on 3 June, 2021

Small Arms Survey’s Working Paper On the Edge? Trafficking and Insecurity at the Tunisian–Libyan Border examines the effects of the Libyan armed conflict and its aftermath on the security situation in Tunisia. Based on primary field research conducted in the Jefara region, which borders Libya, the study delves into the complex interactions between actors and processes, in a politically and economically turbulent region. In this podcast Dr.

Small Arms Survey Podcast #25: Instruments of Crime: Illicit weapons in the United States

Submitted by Lionel Kosirnik on 3 June, 2021

Contrary to the impression given by Hollywood's depictions, most firearms seized from drug traffickers and gang members in the United States are handguns, not automatic rifles or sub-machine guns. In this podcast, senior researcher Matt Schroeder highlights and explains key findings from his analysis of more than 140,000 records on firearms seized from criminals in eight US cities. These findings were released this summer as a chapter in Small Arms Survey 2014: Women and Guns.

Small Arms Survey Podcast #30: Weapons Trafficking and the New Development Agenda: Reducing illicit arms flows and SDG Goal 16

Submitted by Lionel Kosirnik on 3 June, 2021

The second part of the two-part podcast discussing the Small Arms Survey's engagement in measuring  SDG Goal 16, which focuses on peaceful and inclusive societies, access to justice, and accountable institutions. This episode examines SDG Target 16.4, which calls for a significant reduction in illicit arms flows. Beyond acknowledging the link between illicit weapons, armed violence, and insecurity, it is crucial to identify ways of measuring and understanding the illicit arms trade.

Small Arms Survey Podcast #39: Documenting Illicit Arms Flows in Conflict and Post-Conflict Environments

Submitted by Lionel Kosirnik on 2 June, 2021

Measuring illicit arms flows is one of the challenges faced by states in their efforts to monitor progress in implementing Sustainable Development Goal 16, target 16.4. Fulfilling its mission as the principal international source of impartial and public information on all aspects of small arms and armed violence, the Small Arms Survey brings in a series of podcasts the voices of researchers with relevant experience concerning the issue at hand.

Small Arms Survey Podcast #40: Measuring Illicit Arms Flows in Non-Conflict Contexts

Submitted by Lionel Kosirnik on 2 June, 2021

The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that form Agenda 2030 provide a universal policy framework within which states have agreed to operate as a means towards sustainable development. SDG16 sets out to achieve peaceful, just, and inclusive societies, with its fourth target focusing specifically on significantly reducing illicit arms flows.
 

Small Arms Survey Podcast #41: Measuring Illicit Arms Flows in the Context of Sustainable Development Goal 16 - An International Framework for Action

Submitted by Lionel Kosirnik on 2 June, 2021

The third installment of the Small Arms Survey podcast series on illicit arms flows discusses Sustainable Development Goal 16 (SDG16), target 16.4, and its associated indicator, 16.4.2.

Small Arms Survey Podcast #44: Arms Control 2.0—Operationalizing SDG Target 16.4

Submitted by Lionel Kosirnik on 12 May, 2021

In this episode of the Small Arms Survey podcast series, senior researcher and managing editor Glenn McDonald—author of our October 2017 Briefing Paper Arms Control 2.0—Operationalizing SDG Target 16.4—discusses how the implementation of international arms control instruments supports the aim of reducing illicit arms flows in line with Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Target 16.4.

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