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Controlling Small Arms: Consolidation, innovation and relevance in research and policy book cover

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Controlling Small Arms Consolidation, innovation and relevance in research and policy

Edited By Peter Batchelor, Kai Michael Kenkel Copyright 2014
336 Pages
by Routledge

336 Pages
by Routledge
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This edited volume takes stock of the state of research and policy on the issue of Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW), ten years after the UN first agreed to deal with the problem. The end of the Cold War originated a series of phenomena that would subsequently come to dominate the political agenda. Perhaps most symptomatic of the ensuing environment is the marked escalation in the scale and... Read more

Foreword, Keith Krause and Rubem César Fernandes  Introduction: The Past, Present and Future of the Small Arms Policy-research Nexus, Peter Batchelor and Kai Michael Kenkel  1. The Small Arms Problem as Arms Control: A Policy-driven Research Agenda, Edward J. Laurance  Part I: The Current State of Small Arms Research  2. Products and Producers: A Global Business, Peter Hall  3. Stockpiles: the Global Geography of Small Arms Numbers, Aaron Karp  4. Transfers: More Information, More Transparency, Ruxandra Stoicescu  5. Armed Actors: A New Subject of Research, Nicolas Florquin  6. Effects: An Emerging Research and Policy Agenda, Peter Batchelor and Robert Muggah  7. Measures: Informing Diplomacy—the Role of Research in the UN Small Arms Process, Glenn McDonald  8. Advocacy: Defining the Small Arms Control Agenda, Adele Kirsten  Part II: Innovative Contributions to Small Arms Research  9. Firearms and Crime in Brazil, Daniel Ricardo de Castro Cerqueira and Joao Manoel Pinho de Mello  10. Challenging Modernities in Rio de Janeiro: A Critical Analysis of the ‘Pacification’ Project,  Barbara Bravo and Paula Drumond  11. The Evolution and Consolidation of Norms on Small Arms, Denise Garcia  Part III: Conclusions and Prospects for the Future  12. Small Arms Research: Dynamics and Emerging Challenges,  Owen Greene  13. Beyond Stalemate: Advocacy and Action in the UN Small Arms Process, Jim Mclay 

Biography

Peter Batchelor was appointed as UNDP Iraq Country Director on 1 September 2011. Prior to this appointment he held the post of UNDP Iraq Deputy Country Director.

Kai Michael Kenkel is Assistant Professor (tenured) at the Institute for International Relations at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (IRI/PUC-Rio). He is editor of South American Peace Operations (Routledge 2013).

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