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General Information

UN brochure on small arms
Informative overview from the UN

Disarmament
UN Department for Disarmament Affairs

Arms Availability Questions and Answers
From the International Committee of the Red Cross/Crescent

The Global Threat of Small Arms and Light Weapons -- A Primer
Federation of American Scientists


Feature News Articles

Small Wars, Small Arms, Big Graft
Christian Science Monitor, reprinted by the Global Policy Forum

Comrades in Arms
Meet the former Soviet mobsters who sell terrorists their guns.
The Washington Monthly

The international dealers in death
In a three-part series, Guardian writers hunt down the dealers, talk to the victims and ask what can be done to stop the trade.

Small Arms Large Problems
Today's biggest killers are assault rifles, machine guns, mortars, and grenades.
The Progressive Magazine, reprinted by International Action Network on Small Arms

Small Arms Big Damage
Economist, reprinted by Global Policy Forum

Arms Control Orphans
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists


Policy

Small Arms page
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) website for the Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict

UN Department for Disarmament Affairs, Conventional Arms Branch

Small Arms and Demobilization News
UN Development Project

US. Department of state calls UN arms conference a success


NGO Sites

International action network on small arms

Switzerland-based Small Arms Survey

Arms Trade Resource Center
World Policy Institute

Friends Committee on National Legislation (Quaker public-interest lobby)

Norwegian Initiative on Small Arms Transfer


Arms Info

How Stuff Works:
Machine Guns
Stinger Missiles
Impact Grenades


Arms Trafficking

"Annex 4: Leonid Minin, Arms and Aircraft in West Africa" (PDF File, see page 55)
Information on the Leonard Minin arms trafficking case from David Pratt, a Canadian Minister of Parliament who acted as Special Envoy to Sierra Leone during the time of the deal.


U.S. Arms Trade

Arms Sales Monitoring Project
Federation of American Scientists

Evolution of U.S. Policy on Small Arms
A compilation of speeches, official documents, and policy notes by U.S. government officials on small arms from 1995-2001


Action

Controlling the gun-runners
Proposals for EU action to regulate arms brokering and shipping agents

What you Can Do About Small Arms
Small Arms Working Group

Regional, International, and Governmental Efforts to Combat the Illicit Traffic in Small and Light Arms

The Role of the Business Community in Alleviating the Problems Associated with the Proliferation, Availability and Misuse of Light Weapons: Supply-Side Initiatives and Support of Reconstruction in Post-Conflict Countries (PDF File)
by Edward J. Laurance
From the Monterey Institute's Program on Security and Development (SAND)


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