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Orphans and Icons: Small Arms Control and Armed Groups in Southeast Asia

open access: yes, 2008
Over the past decade, the international community has initiated programmes and policies to redress the worldwide availability and circulation of small arms and light weapons.
Koorey, Stephanie Leeanne Kinvig
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IMPROVISED EXPLOSIVE DEVICES [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Shortly after 6 p.m. on 17 February 1880, Stepan Khalturin lit a fuse in the cellar of the Russian tsar’s Winter Palace in St Petersburg. Around 15 minutes later, the fuse initiated 145 kg of explosives that the carpenter had smuggled into the palace on ...

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Infiltration of Small Arms and Light Weapons into Benue Valley and Its Impact on the Conflict Between Pastoralists and Farmers

open access: yesInternational Studies Journal, 2023
One of the challenges confronting nation states is the proliferation of small arms and light weapons. This problem is more pronounce in developing countries where there are porous borders and weak institutions responsible for border security like ...
Paulina Ada Akpa   +2 more
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Published in Switzerland by the Small Arms Survey [PDF]

open access: yes
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the Small Arms Survey, or as expressly permitted by law, or under ...
Arms Process   +6 more
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Back to the sources : international small arms transfers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
In late 2003, human rights organizations brought a case against the British government’s arms sales (including small arms sales) to Indonesia. They argued that these exports violated the UK export criteria, as there was a ‘patent’ risk that the weapons ...
Khakee, Anna
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Hydrodynamic orienting of asymmetric microobjects under gravity

open access: yes, 2008
It is shown that nonsymmetric microobjects orient while settling under gravity in a viscous fluid. To analyze this process, a simple shape is chosen: a non-deformable `chain'. The chain consists of two straight arms, made of touching solid spheres.
Childress S   +6 more
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First landmines, now small arms?: the international campaign to ban landmines as a model for small-arms advocacy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
This paper is a comparative analysis of the international campaigns around landmines and small arms. The aim is to determine whether aspects of the successful campaign to ban landmines can be replicated by non-governmental organisations (NGOs ...
O'Dwyer, Diana
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Pragmatism and Effective Fragmented Governance: Comparing Trajectories in Small Arms and Military and Security Services

open access: yesOñati Socio-Legal Series, 2013
A hallmark of contemporary global governance is its complex nature. Understanding the implications of the array of “governors” and their efforts is paramount for scholars of global law and global politics.
Deborah Avant
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FABRICATION ET DETENTION D’ARMES LEGERES ET DE PETITS CALIBRES EN RDC : l’impératif d’une reforme législative

open access: yesKAS African Law Study Library, 2016
This paper reflects on making ang holdingSmall Arms and Light Weapons in DRC. It ar- gues that the Small Arms and Light Weapons legal framework in Congo DRC needs reform in order to respond to international and regional rules and increasing the national ...
BAHELLABY Timothée
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SMALL ARMS OF RUSSIAN FEDERATION ARMED FORCES

open access: yesPROBLEMY TECHNIKI UZBROJENIA, 2020
Russia has been for many years one of main producers and exporters of arms and military equipment. But even if the Russian Military-industrial Complex still maintains a leading position, there is at least one domain where it was forced to quit positions kept during the Soviet Union and does not present any new achievements.
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