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.

HSBA MAAPSS webinar series: Upper Nile

Submitted by Lionel Kosirnik on 3 June, 2021

The Small Arms Survey’s Mapping Actors and Alliances Project for South Sudan (MAAPSS) held its third closed-door webinar on Thursday 20 May.

Joshua Craze, Saadia Aleem, and David Deng discuss protection issues raised by recent returns in Upper Nile, how returns more broadly should be organized in South Sudan in the run-up to the proposed census in 2022, the political issues such movements raise, and what role international organizations have in supporting such returns.

Small Arms Survey Podcast #8: In Transition: Armed groups in Libya

Submitted by Lionel Kosirnik on 3 June, 2021

Two years after Libyan revolutionary forces deposed Colonel Muammar Qadaffi’s regime, Libya's complex state-building process continues. Local and regional armed groups, including Libya's revolutionary brigades, have an important role to play in this process, although there is no clear understanding of how. As part of its focus project on Libya and North Africa, the Small Arms Survey has commissioned research on the identities and functions of armed groups in the country and region.

Small Arms Survey Podcast #16: In Search of Security in Sudan and South Sudan: the HSBA project

Submitted by Lionel Kosirnik on 3 June, 2021

The Human Security Baseline Assessment for Sudan and South Sudan (HSBA) is a multi-year project of the Small Arms Survey. The HSBA project was established in 2005 in the wake of the comprehensive peace agreement between the government of Sudan and the Sudan’s People Liberation Movement, which put an end to 20 years of civil strife. The project was set up in order to gauge the security situation and provide information on small arms and security issues. The project serves to support violence reduction initiatives through its research and dissemination of salient information.

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 #21: The Crisis in South Sudan, Part One: Understanding the impasse

Submitted by Lionel Kosirnik on 3 June, 2021

The Small Arms Survey's Human Security Baseline Assessment (HSBA) for Sudan and South Sudan has documented armed conflict dynamics in the two countries since 2006. In a May 2014 interview, HSBA consultant Joshua Craze, author of several HSBA reports, describes recent developments in South Sudan's political and humanitarian crisis, which has continued to evolve since December 2013.

Small Arms Survey Podcast #22: The Crisis in South Sudan, Part Two: No easy solution

Submitted by Lionel Kosirnik on 3 June, 2021

The second part of this two-part podcast, based on a May 2014 interview with HSBA consultant Joshua Craze, describes the current military situation in South Sudan and outlines possible scenarios for South Sudan's future. The Small Arms Survey's HSBA (Human Security Baseline Assessment) for Sudan and South Sudan has documented armed conflict dynamics in the two countries since 2006. For a transcript of an extended version of the interview, please visit the HSBA website.