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1 Center for Security Studies Organizations and Resources Partners The Small Arms Survey is an independent research project located at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. It 1) serves as a source of public information on all aspects of small arms production, sales and trafficking on the international level, and 2) traces the relationship between these types of arms and organized violence. Established 1999 Address Telephone Fax Contact Maison de la Paix Chemin Eugène-Rigot 2E 1202 Geneva Switzerland Visit website Content from this organization Publications Lifting US Sanctions on Sudan: Rationale and Reality From Legal to Lethal: Converted Firearms in Europe At the Crossroads of Sahelian Conflicts: Insecurity, Terrorism, and Arms Trafficking in Niger Global Violent Deaths 2017: Time to Decide Tubu Trouble: State and Statelessness in the Chad-Sudan-Libya Triangle Spreading Fallout: The Collapse of the ARCSS and New Conflict along the Equatorias-DRC Border Web Trafficking: Analysing the Online Trade of Small Arms and Light Weapons in Libya Remote-Control Breakdown: Sudanese Paramilitary Forces and Pro-Government Militias Measuring Illicit Arms Flows: Ukraine Southern Libya Destabilized: The Case of Ubari Policing in South Sudan: Transformation Challenges and Priorities Measuring Illicit Arms Flows: Niger Global Development and Production of Self-Loading Service Rifles Facilitating PSSM Assistance in the Sahel and Beyond A State of Disunity: Conflict Dynamics in Unity State, South Sudan, Legitimacy, Exclusion, and Power: Taban Deng Gai and the South Sudan Peace Process A Gendered Analysis of Violent Deaths Measuring Illicit Arms Flows: Honduras

2 Monitoring UN Arms Embargoes: Observations from Panels of Experts Sustainable Stockpile Management in Bosnia and Herzegovina: The Role of the EUFOR Mobile Training Team for Weapons and Ammunition Management Measuring Illicit Arms Flows: Somalia Firearms and Violent Deaths Monitoring Trends in Violent Deaths Popular Struggles and Elite Co-optation: The Nuer White Army in South Sudan s Civil War Trade Update 2016: Transfers and Transparency A New Development Agenda: Bridging the Development-Security Divide Measuring Illicit Arms Flows: SDG Target 16.4 Dribs and Drabs: The Mechanics of Small Arms Trafficking from the United States Checks and Balances: Securing Small Arms during Peace Operations Chambering the Next Round: Emergent Small-Caliber Technologies The Value of Hospital Data: Understanding and Preventing Intentional Injury in Liberia Down, but Not Out: The FDLR in the Democratic Republic of the Congo A Fractious Rebellion: Inside the SPLM-IO Fields of Control: Oil and (In)security in Sudan and South Sudan Recoilless Weapons Voicing Concern: Surveying People's Priorities in Violent Settings Secret Stockpiles: Arms Caches and Disarmament Efforts in Mozambique Unheard and Uncounted: Violence against Women in India Two Fronts, One War: Evolution of the Two Areas Conflict, Under Attack and Above Scrutiny? Diversion of Arms and Ammunition in Peace Operations Violent Deaths due to Legal Interventions There and Back: Trajectories of North African Foreign Fighters in Syria Documenting Small Arms and Light Weapons Missing Missiles: The Proliferation of Man-portable Air Defence Systems in North Africa Development Deferred: Eastern Sudan after the ESPA Real but Fragile: The Greater Pibor Administrative Area Floating Armouries in the Indian Ocean Guided Mortar Systems What the National Reports Reveal: Trends in UN PoA and ITI Reporting MANPADS Proliferation Reduction by Design: On Countermeasures and Kill Switches One Meeting after Another: UN Process Update Reducing Illicit Arms Flows and the New Development Agenda Behind the Curve: New Technologies, New Control Challenges Every Body Counts: Measuring Violent Deaths Automatic Grenade Launchers From Replica to Real: An Introduction to Firearms Conversions Armed Groups and Guided Light Weapons Following the Thread: Arms and Ammunition Tracing in Sudan and South Sudan Contested Borders: Continuing Tensions over the Sudan South Sudan Border The Sudan Revolutionary Front: Its Formation and Development Countering Improvised Explosive Devices The Highway Routes Women and Gun Ownership Firearm Suicides Unplanned Explosions at Munitions Sites (UEMS) Handgun Ownership and Armed Violence in the Western Balkans Politics by Other Means: Conflicting Interests in Libya s Security Sector Searching for Stability: Perceptions of Security, Justice, and Firearms in Libya Evolving Traditional Practices Fire and Forget: The Proliferation of Man-portable Air Defence Systems in Syria Feeding the Fire: Illicit Small Arms Ammunition in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Somalia Producers of Small Arms, Light Weapons, and their Ammunition Rogue Rocketeers: Artillery Rockets and Armed Groups Protective Measures: Local Security Arrangements in Greater Upper Nile Identifying Sources: Small-calibre Ammunition in Côte d Ivoire Documenting Weapons in Situations of Armed Conflict Implementation in Practice: National Points of Contact in the RECSA Region Sobrevivir a la violencia armada Taking Stock of Excess Stockpiles: UEMS in South-East Europe The UEMS Incident Reporting Template (IRT) Surviving Armed Violence Instruments of Violence: Weapons Control Efforts to Reduce and Prevent Armed Violence Implementing the Geneva Declaration on Armed Violence and Development Excess Arms in South Sudan Following the Headstamp Trail Inclusive Security, Inclusive Cities Traditional Military Rifles Firearms and Violence in Honduras Geospatial Technologies and Crime Risky Business? Crime and Security Perceptions in the Nepali Private Sector Small Arms of the Indian State On the Edge? Trafficking and Insecurity at the Tunisian Libyan Border

3 Industrial Demilitarization of Conventional Ammunition Pendulum Swings: The Rise and Fall of Insurgent Militias in South Sudan Marking of Firearms and Ammunition Parts for Small Arms and Light Weapons Data Sources and the Estimation of Military-Owned Small Arms Dividing Lines: Grazing and Conflict along the Sudan South Sudan Border Efficacy of Small Arms Control Measures and National Reporting Non-lethal Firearm Violence Moving Targets Armed Groups Holdings of Guided Light Weapons The Arms Trade Treaty: A Step Forward in Small Arms Control? At War s End: Armed Violence in Nepal The Headstamp Trail: An Assessment of Small-calibre Ammunition Found in Libya In Search of Lasting Security: An Assessment of Armed Violence in Nepal The Missing Middle: Examining the Armed Group Phenomenon in Nepal Ad Hoc Arsenals: PSSM Practices of Selected Non-state Actors Legacies of War in the Company of Peace: Firearms in Nepal Lessons Learned from Weapon-marking Initiatives Armed Violence Monitoring Systems New War, Old Enemies: Conflict Dynamics in South Kordofan Making a Mark: Reporting on Firearms Marking in the RECSA Region Demobilization in the DRC: Armed Groups and the Role of Organizational Control Weapons Tracing and Peace Support Operations Policing the Periphery Accessories for Small Arms and Light Weapons The US Firearms Industry Dynamic Disposal: An Introduction to Mobile and Transportable Industrial Ammunition Demilitarization Equipment Military Assault Rifles Battering, Rape, and Lethal Violence Estimating Law Enforcement Firearms Political Conflict and Vulnerabilities Costs and Consequences: Unplanned Explosions and Demilitarization in South-east Europe Urban Armed Violence Tracking National Homicide Rates My Neighbour, My Enemy: Inter-tribal Violence in Jonglei Internal Control: Codes of Conduct Within Insurgent Armed Groups After the Fall: Libya s Evolving Armed Groups Regional Organizations and the PoA Pistols and Revolvers Business as Usual: Arms Flows to Darfur Peace Without Security: Violence against Women and Girls in Liberia Security Provision and Small Arms in Karamoja The Programme of Action Implementation Monitor (Phase 1) A Diplomat s Guide to the UN Small Arms Process Regional Organizations and the UN Programme of Action on Small Arms (PoA) 2012 and Beyond: Advocacy and Action in the UN Small Arms Process Assessing Transparency in Small Arms Exports A Heavy Hand: The Use of Force by India s Police Reducing Armed Violence, Enabling Development Forgotten Darfur: Old Tactics and New Players Guatemala en la encrucijada Work in Progress: Security Force Development in South Sudan through February 2012 Armed Groups in Libya: Typology and Roles Availability of Small Arms and Perceptions of Security in Kenya Blue Skies and Dark Clouds Armed Violence: Spotlight on Lethal Effects Timor-Leste Armed Violence Assessment Final Report After the Guns Fall Silent Tracking Violence in Timor-Leste Electoral Violence in Timor-Leste Groups, Gangs, and Armed Violence in Timor-Leste Dealing with the Kilat Buy and Burn Precedent in the Making Scraping the Barrel: The Trade in Surplus Ammunition Ammunition Marking The Method behind the Mark Reading between the Lines: Crime and Victimization in Liberia A Legacy of War? Perceptions of Security in Liberia Security Provision in Southern Lebanon Mapping Murder: The Geography of Indian Firearm Fatalities India s States of Armed Violence: Assessing the Human Cost and Political Priorities Insecurity Is also War Urban Violence in an Urban Village The Global Burden of Armed Violence Armed Violence Prevention and Reduction Understanding Violence

4 Tackling Violence Against Women: From Knowledge to Practical Initiatives A Deadly Cycle: Ethno-Religious Conflict in Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria Contributing Evidence to Programming: Armed Violence Monitoring Systems Working Against Violence: Promising Practices in Armed Violence Reduction and Prevention In Transit: Gangs and Criminal Networks in Guyana Small Arms in Brazil: Production, Trade, and Holdings Significant Surpluses: Weapons and Ammunition Stockpiles in South-East Europe Capabilities and Capacities: A Survey of South-East Europe s Demilitarization Infrastructure Reaching for the Gun Fighting for Spoils Anti-Tank Guided Weapons A National Survey of Small Arms and Light Weapons in Côte d Ivoire An Arms Trade Treaty: Will it Support or Supplant the PoA? Femicide: A Global Problem Regulating Armed Groups from Within The PoA: Review of National Reports Unplanned Explosions at Munitions Sites Small Arms Transfers: Importing States Small Arms Transfers: Exporting States Estimating Civilian Owned Firearms Less-Lethal Weapons Anti-Materiel Rifles Heavy Machine Guns (Including Anti-Aircraft Guns) Private Security Companies Firearms Stockpiles Craft Production of Small Arms Mortars Man-Portable Air Defence Systems (MANPADS) Renouncing the Rebels Creating Facts on the Ground Failures and Opportunities Analysis of National Reports Safer Stockpiles Renouncing the Rebels DDR in Sudan: Too Little, Too Late? In Need of Review: SPLA Transformation in and Beyond South-East European Surplus Arms Under Pressure: Social Violence Over Land and Water in Yemen Armed and Aimless Confronting the Don: The Political Economy of Gang Violence in Jamaica The Other War: Inter-Arab Conflict in Darfur Ammunition Tracing Kit Conventional Ammunition in Surplus Targeting Ammunition Surveying Europe s Production and Procurement of Small Arms and Light Weapons Ammunition Unrealistic Expectations: Current Challenges to Reintegration in Southern Sudan National Implementation of the United Nations Small Arms Programme of Action and the International Tracing Instrument No Other Life: Gangs, Guns, and Governance in Trinidad and Tobago Surplus Arms in South America Transparency Counts: Assessing State Reporting on Small Arms Transfers, Fault Lines Primed and Purposeful Uncertain Future: Armed Violence in Southern Sudan Symptoms and Causes: Insecurity and Underdevelopment in Eastern Equatoria Rhetoric and Reality Skirting the Law: Sudan's Post-CPA Arms Flows Supply and Demand Conflicting Priorities: GoSS Security Challenges and Recent Responses Firearm-related Violence in Mozambique Beyond 'Janjaweed': Understanding the Militias of Darfur Gangs of Central America: Causes, Costs, and Interventions L insécurité est une autre guerre Shots in the Dark: The 2008 South Sudan Civilian Disarmament Campaign Trading Life, Trading Death The Central African Republic and Small Arms Small Arms in Rio de Janeiro No Standing, Few Prospects The Drift Back to War Conflict, Arms, and Militarization: The Dynamics of Darfur's IDP Camps Gauging Fear and Insecurity: Perspectives on Armed Violence in Eastern Equatoria and Turkana North Blowback: Kenya's Illicit Ammunition Problem in Turkana North District Crisis in Karamoja A Guide to the US, Small Arms Market, Industry and Exports, Re-Armament in Sierra Leone Stray Bullets: The Impact of Small Arms Misuse in Central America

5 Silencing Guns - Local Perspectives on Small Arms and Armed Violence in Rural Pacific Island Communities Small Arms in Kyrgyzstan Tajikistan's Road to Stability Small Arms and Light Weapons, Production in Eastern, Central, and Southeast Europe Demand, Stockpiles,and Social Controls: Small Arms in Yemen Politics From The Barrel of a Gun: Small Arms Proliferation and Conflict in the Republic of Georgia ( ) Legal Controls on Small Arms and Light Weapons in Southeast Asia Behind a Veil of Secrecy: Military Small Arms and Light Weapons Production in Western Europe In the Shadow of a Cease-fire:The Impacts of Small Arms Availability and Misuse in Sri Lanka Small Arms in the Pacific Removing Small Arms from Society Small Arms, Armed Violence,and Insecurity in Nigeria Demanding Attention: Addressing the Dynamics of Small Arms Demand Securing Haiti's Transition Beyond the Kalashnikov: Small Arms Production, Exports, and Stockpiles in the Russian Federation Making Global Public Policy:The Case of Small Arms and Light Weapons Shining a Light on Small Arms Exports A Paramilitary Revolution:The Popular Defence Forces Violent Legacies: Insecurity in Sudan s Central and Eastern Equatoria The Lord s Resistance Army in Sudan: A History and Overview Divided They Fall: The Fragmentation of Darfur s Rebel Groups The Eastern Front and the Struggle Against Marginalization Violence and Victimization in South Sudan The Chad Sudan Proxy War and the Violence and Victimization after Civilian Disarmament:The Case of Jonglei Armed Groups Along Sudan s Eastern Frontier: An Overview and Analysis Emerging North South Tensions and Prospects for a Return to War The White Army: An Introduction and Overview Border in Name Only: Arms Trafficking and Armed Groups at the DRC-Sudan Border The South Sudan Defence Forces in the Wake of the Juba Declaration A Fragile Peace: Guns and Security in Post-conflict Macedonia Gun Running in Papua New Guinea Small Arms in Burundi Kosovo and the Gun Small Arms Availability, Trade and Impacts, in the Republic of Congo Humanitarianism Under Threat Allies and Defectors: An Update on Armed Group Integration and Proxy Force Activity Neither 'Joint' nor 'Integrated': The Joint Integrated Units and the Future of the CPA Echo Effects: Chadian Instability and the Darfur Conflict Responses to Pastoral Wars: A Review of Violence Reduction Efforts in Sudan, Uganda, and Kenya Arms, Oil, and Darfur The Militarization of Sudan A Widening War Around Sudan: The Proliferation of Armed Groups in the Central African Republic No Dialogue, No Commitment: The Perils of Deadline Diplomacy for Darfur Anatomy of Civilian Disarmament in Jonglei State Armed Groups in Sudan Persistent Threats: Widespread Human Insecurity in Lakes State, South Sudan, since the CPA Avoiding Disarmament Failure: The Critical Link in DDR How Many Weapons are There in Cambodia? Island of Safety in a Sea of Guns The Use and Perception of Weapons Before and After Conflict The Role of Small Arms During the Conflict in Iraq Series Geneva Declaration Publications Small Arms Survey Research Notes Small Arms Survey Issue Briefs Small Arms Survey Books Small Arms Survey Special Reports Small Arms Survey Occasional Papers Small Arms Survey HSBA for Sudan and South Sudan Working Papers Small Arms Survey HSBA for Sudan and South Sudan Issue Briefs Small Arms Survey Working Papers Articles Monitoring Illicit Arms Flows: The Role of UN Peacekeeping Operations Beyond the Battlefield: Towards a Better Assessment of the Human Cost of Armed Conflict Tracking Conflict-Related Deaths: A Preliminary Overview of Monitoring Systems Policing in South Sudan: Transformation Challenges and Priorities Firearms and Violent Deaths

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