United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research

The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) has developed its own procedures for planning, implementing and verifying weapons destruction programmes. This Guide explains how the South African...

Multilateral disarmament and arms control negotiations have achieved scant success in recent years, despite pressing political imperatives. This volume analyzes and reframes current challenges with a...

There is renewed and deep international concern about the catastrophic humanitarian consequences that would result from the detonation of nuclear weapons in populated areas. Yet 25 years after the end...

This book wrestles with fundamental questions of practical disarmament and peace building in Sierra Leone. Although they were written prior to the May-June 2000 upsurge of violence in Freetown that...

Africa's economic and social development has been held back by armed conflicts that have inflicted death, injury, hunger and homelessness. This book recognizes that in order to achieve economic...

The Middle East, for over half a century, has been confronted with the threat posed by the existence of weapons of mass destruction in the region. On the eve of the US-led attack on Iraq in 2003, the...

The 2006 conference “Building the Architecture for Sustainable Space Security” is the latest in a series of annual conferences held since 2002 by the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research...

This publication contains the proceedings of the 2007 conference “Celebrating the Space Age: 50 Years of Space Technology, 40 Years of the Outer Space Treaty” on the issue of space security, the...

This publication highlights the work of a selection of thirty-eight Nobel Peace Prize Laureates who strove to promote international peace through the development of organizations from the antecedents...

The fight against the proliferation of small arms and light weapons is one of the key priorities on the peace and security agenda of West African states. West African armed and security forces have a...

This glossary provides clear and precise definitions of arms control terms and places them in a historical context. It introduces the reader to the primary themes and concepts in the field of arms...

This glossary provides clear and precise definitions of arms control terms and places them in a historical context. It introduces the reader to the primary themes and concepts in the field of arms...

Good verification and compliance arrangements can significantly increase the confidence of parties to an agreement that giving up a type of weapon or other military capability will enhance rather than...

Outer space is an internationalized common area beyond the national jurisdiction of individual states. Security in space must therefore be the common security of all states. The objective of this...

This book is the fourth and final publication to arise from a project entitled “Weapons for Development”. This two-year project assessed small arms and light weapons collection programmes in which the...

The present Cost Benefit Analysis Model was developed in order to allow states to estimate the real costs involved in ammunition and weapon storage. It allows each storage depot to calculate its full...

This study evaluates the costs and benefits of the nuclear arms control treaties between the United States of America and the Soviet Union/Russian Federation. It reveals that the fiscal costs of...