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Small arms and light weapons: the disjunction problem

Conflict, Security and Development, 2019
ABSTRACTGrowing in range and urgency, humanitarian needs now pose increasingly acute questions for national security policy formulation. Whether over forced migration, food scarcity or nefarious electronic penetration, state security preferences face uneasy accommodations with individual needs be it for child survival, basic sustenance or rights to ...
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Mapping of Conflicts and Small Arms and Light Weapons Proliferations in Africa

2021
This study examined conflicts and small arms and light weapons proliferation in Africa with the main objective of raising the awareness of these problems and ultimately alerting the countries in Africa to the challenges of small arms and to initiate programs to tackle it.
Taiye Oluwafemi Adewuyi, Mwanret Gideon Daful   +1 more
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Case Study: Small Arms and Light Weapons

2011
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Small arms and light weapons

2004
The Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects (PoA), adopted by Member States at the 2001 United Nation Conference, was the first step by the international community collectively to combat the problem and move towards establishing universal norms to eradicate the global ...
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Small arms and light weapons

2009
Most present-day conflicts are fought mainly with small arms. They are broadly used in inter-State conflict and they are the weapons of choice for civil wars, terrorism, organized crime and gang warfare. Small arms are cheap and light, as well as easy to handle, transport and conceal.
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REGULATING SMALL ARMS AND LIGHT WEAPONS

African Security Review, 2001
One of the biggest challenges currently facing the developing world is the proliferation of small arms and light weapons. Arms control and disarmament have been part of the diplomatic agenda since the middle of the 19th century and were two of the most important issues facing the world's major powers during the 1960s and 1970s. When the Cold War ended,
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The Proliferation of Small Arms and Light Weapons

2005
The use and misuse of Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW) are estimated to result in over 500,000 deaths per year, and countless injuries.1 For example, one often cited statistic indicates that in 90 percent of conflicts since 1990, SALW have been the only weapons used in fighting, and have contributed to between 30 and 90 percent of civilian deaths in
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Technologies to Counter the Diversion of Small Arms and Light Weapons, and Components of Conventional Weapons

2023
There are many ways in which technology could help to counter the diversion of conventional weapons. Yet despite some discussions in international meetings on conventional arms control, we see limited evidence of technologies being used to strengthen or enhance efforts to prevent, detect, and investigate the diversion of conventional arms, their ...
Sarah Grand-Clément, Diederik Cops
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Nigeria: Militancy, Insurgency and the Proliferation of Small Arms and Light Weapon

2021
The intricate connection between the proliferation of small arms and light weapons (SALWs) and prevalence of violent criminality is a feature of the web of insecurity in Nigeria. Nowhere is this nexus more evident than in the outbreak of militancy in the oil-rich Niger Delta and persistence of Boko Haram insurgency in the Northeast.
Freedom Chukwudi Onuoha, Joachim Chukwuma Okafor, Osinimu Osebeba Femi-Adedayo   +2 more
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Military, Arms Monopoly and Proliferation of Small Arms and Light Weapons in Africa

2021
The military is the custodian of national security. It is the instrument of last resort in the times of dire national security debacles. For its strategic role in the state, the military wields exclusive authoritative powers over the sphere of arms: the production, circulation, possession, acquisition and use of legal instruments of coercion.
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