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This study comprises a participatory review of weapons collection programmes in exchange for development aid from the perspective of the local people. Part of a series of lessons learned from...

Open Skies is the longest held idea in the history of modern arms control. Originally proposed in the mid 1950s, a multilateral Open Skies Treaty was signed in 1992. Based on the principles of...

This study comprises a participatory review of weapons collection programmes in exchange for development aid from the perspective of the local people. Part of a series of lessons learned from...

This study presents an assessment of the national reports submitted in compliance with the implementation of the UN Programme of Action on Small Arms and Light Weapons (PoA). Overall the findings are...

This study comprises a participatory review of weapons collection programmes in exchange for development aid from the perspective of the local people, it describes the results from the Cambodia case...

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...

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 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...

This publication, an outcome from the Outer Space and Global Security Conference, looks at the current and future uses of space. It examines ways of preventing the deployment or use of weapons in and...

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...

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...

As the peaceful uses of outer space grow in both number and scope, so too does their importance in the day-to-day lives of people across the globe. Growing insecurity of the space environment could...

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...

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...

Over the years, much has been achieved in ensuring the use of outer space for the benefit of humankind. Yet, while elements of an international legal framework have been put in place, the key problem...

This report presents the findings of a 1,200-person survey on small arms and security at the national and district levels in Sierra Leone. A detailed retrospective is also provided on the design and...

This publication analyses the information contained in national reports voluntarily submitted by States on their implementation of the United Nations Programme of Action on Small Arms and Light...