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This study looks at the United Nations Security Council through the prism of major international security issues since the end of the Cold War. Special emphasis is placed on explaining how the...

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 study examines the consequences of arms control focusing primarily on the South Asian region. Using India and Pakistan as examples, the author explains how heavy spending on armaments and...

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...

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 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...