Arms go south

Excess Arms in South Sudan: Security Forces and Surplus Management

Introduction South Sudan is saturated with weapon s following the long civil war that resulted in its independence in 2011. The weapons that were once in the hands of the rebel forces now officially belong to the newly developed state defence and security forces. In comparable situations elsewhere, a by-product of restructuring such forces is a surplus of small arms, light weapons, and ammuniti...

Trauma care in South Africa - a call to arms.

Small soldiers combine arms to go to war on tumor cells.

Nanotechnology offers great hope for the future treatment of cancer. However, a number of stumbling blocks remain that must be cleared before this hope can become a reality. One of the challenges is to design molecules that are capable of both remaining in the circulation for long enough time to encounter the tumor and then of killing the tumor cells when they arrive. A team of chemists from th...

SMALL ARMS AND HUMAN INSECURITY Reviewing Participatory Research in South Asia

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Gradual Arms Reduction

ance.” He acknowledged that, in order to defend themselves against the Soviet threat as long as i t lasts, the peoples on both sides of the Atlantic must be linked together, and more specifically, he asserted that despite divergencies over the organization and functioning of the alliance itself, France and the United States would be side by side again in the event of a general war. In short, on...