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    Why Women? Effective engagement for small arms control - Briefing papers

    International Action Network on Small Arms Women’s Network, 2011
    These briefs summarise the main findings and recommendations of the report ‘Why Women? Effective engagement for small arms control’. They outline some of the reasons why women should participate in small arms control and disarmament, which include:
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    ‘¿Como te haces entender?’ Gender and Gun Culture in Caribbean Context

    United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women, 2010
    Although Latin America and the Caribbean have not seen interstate conflict for decades, the countries in the region cannot be said to be at peace given the high levels of gun violence.
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    Gun Free Kitchen Tables Activity Report

    Isha L’Isha Feminist Centre, 2011
    The Gun Free Kitchen Tables (GFKT) campaign demands enforcement of an existing Israeli law which limits security guards’ authorisation to bear arms to worksites only.
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    Women, men and gun violence: options for action

    Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, Switzerland, 2005
    This article, 'Women, men and gun violence: options for action', forms part of a larger publication on directions for the reduction of small arms control. In this piece the authors emphasise a gender equity approach to reduce risks and bolster resilience to insecurity and violence. A number of issues are explored such as:
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    The Global Armed Violence Prevention Programme (AVVP)

    World Health Organization, 2005
    This programme seeks to provide a broad variety of interventions, in a number of settings, as a complement to the security sector reform approach.
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    Evolution of cost of crime estimates

    Mainstreaming Methodology for Estimating Costs of Crime, 2009
    This site aims to bring together techniques developed for estimating the costs of crime. In this particular section the authors detail the different number of studies that have been undertaken in a number of countries - these include the US, UK, France, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Latin America.
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    International initiatives to prevent illicit brokering of arms and related materials

    United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research, 2009
    A consequence of the globalization of the arms trade is the increasing reliance on the services of brokers, who find markets, negotiate deals and make logistical arrangements to meet the requirements of buyers, sellers and other relevant actors, such as government officials, financiers and transport agents.
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    SALW control training manual for West Africa

    Kofi Annan International Peace Keeping Training Centre, 2008
    The proliferation of small arms is a major destabilising factor in fragile states. Ready access to small arms and light weapons (SALW), can not only greatly hinder post-conflict nation-building but quickly escalate and maintain a violent conflict. The former has been particularly prevalent in West Africa where arms have easily flowed across borders from one scene of hostility to the next.
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    A semi-automatic process? identifying and destroying military surplus

    Small Arms Survey, 2008
    The world appears to be witnessing the largest systematic destruction of excess small arms and light weapons since the end of the Second World War. Although surplus destruction is well established in the international security-building repertoire of donor governments, it remains in many respects experimental.
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    Engaging non-state armed groups or listing terrorists? Implications for the arms control community

    Geneva Call, 2008
    This article discusses how the increased use of the “terrorist” label since September 11th 2001, to describe some non-state armed groups (NSAGs), has challenged efforts to tackle security issues in ways that are inclusive of NSAGs.

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