Small Arms Survey 2008: Risk and Resilience

by Small Arms Survey, Geneva

Overview

The Small Arms Survey 2008 presents two thematic sections. The first examines the problem of diversion in all its aspects: stockpiles, surplus disposal, international transfers, and end-user documentation. It includes a case study on South Africa and a comic strip illustrating the potential ease by which someone with access to forged documentation can make arrangements to ship munitions virtually anywhere. The second thematic section analyses the public health approach to armed violence, scrutinizing risk and resilience factors and considering related interventions. It includes an overview of the burden of armed violence, and two case studies of armed violence in El Salvador and the United States. A chapter on light weapons production rounds out the volume.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521880404
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	07/31/2008
Series:	Small Arms Survey
Edition description:	2008 ed.
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	7.60(w) x 9.80(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

The Small Arms Survey is an independent research project located at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. It serves as the principal source of public information on all aspects of small arms and armed violence and as a resource centre for governments, policy-makers, researchers, and activists. The project has an international staff with expertise in security studies, political science, law, economics, development studies, and sociology, and collaborates with a network of partners in more than 50 countries.

Table of Contents

Foreword Bernard Kouchner; 1. Light weapons: products, producers, and proliferation; 2. Arsenals adrift: arms and ammunition diversion; 3. A semi-automatic process? Identifying and destroying military surplus; 4. Deadly deception: arms transfer diversion; 5. Who's buying? End-user certification; 6. The meaning of loss: firearms diversion in South Africa; Comic strip. Adventures of a would-be arms dealer; 7. Reducing armed violence: the public health approach; 8. Risk and resilience: understanding the potential for violence; 9. Targeting armed violence: public health interventions.

Editorial Reviews

'The Small Arms Survey 2008: Risk and Resilience provides compelling evidence for expanding our approach to armed violence reduction from one focused on treating symptoms to one that also aims at prevention. This volume shines a light on public health-based efforts to identify risk and resilience factors of armed violence as well as a number of recent interventions. The 2008 Survey is a vital resource for policy-makers at all levels in our continuing collective work to protect populations at risk.' Bernard Kouchner, French Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Affairs

'The Small Arms Survey 2008: Risk and Resilience demonstrates the need to – and our ability to – reduce armed violence by focusing on preventive efforts rather than solely punitive measures. The evidence-based public health approach allows us to understand the risk of violence in a community, design targeted violence reduction interventions, and measure the effectiveness of these programmes in building safer communities.' Dr Vappu Taipale, Co-president, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), and former Finnish Minister of Health

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