Assessing the Effects of Small Arms Availability

The Effects of Small Arms on Human Development

People are vulnerable to small arms-related violence in many contexts. This chapter examines how small arms availability and misuse can affect human potential and well-being directly and indirectly. Though limited research has been carried out on the effects of small arms in developing countries, small arms availability and misuse can be harmful to human development. Most starkly affected are t...

Assessing the Costs of Small Arms Violence

Sexed Pistols: The Gendered Impacts of Prolific Small Arms

Sexed Pistols: The Gendered Impacts of Prolific Small Arms E day, small arms and light weapons (salw) kill, maim, wound and threaten millions of adults and children. The victims are combatants and civilians in war zones or communities in degraded “peacetime” environments characterized by large-scale criminal or political violence, and can also be found in “societies at peace” where SALW may be ...

Weapons Collection and Small Arms Availability in the Republic of Congo

Weapons Collection and Small Arms Availability in the Republic of Congo

number of small arms and light weapons in the RoC when fighting ended lies between 67,000 and 80,000. By 2003, collection programmes had recovered about 28 per cent of the total. The Republic of Congo suffered through three horrific wars in the 1990s. The human costs have been far-reaching. Conservative indications are that approximately 10–15,000 deaths were directly attributable to the last w...