Light Weapons and Civil Conflict: Controlling the Tools of Violence

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Jeffrey Boutwell, Michael T. Klare
Rowman & Littlefield, 1999 - 262 من الصفحات
A common feature of conflict in the 1990s is death and suffering from small arms and light weapons. The global diffusion of assault rifles, machine guns, mortars, and rocket-propelled grenades, which can be easily carried by an individual or transported by a light vehicle, has greatly intensified the violence of conflicts in countries around the world. This book represents the perspectives of the foremost specialists on light weapons, and it surveys the wide range of policy options open to the international community. These include export and import controls, law enforcement strategies to break up black markets, collection and destruction of weapons following the end of conflict, and efforts to illuminate how small arms and light weapons make their way to the killing grounds of the 1990s.

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The International Trade in Light Weapons What Have We Learned?
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Light Weapons and Conflict in the Great Lakes Region of Africa
29
Controlling the Black and Gray Markets in Small Arms in South Asia
49
Controlling the Supply of Light Weapons
63
US Policy and the Export of Light Weapons
65
The European Union and the Light Weapons Trade
89
Domestic Laws and International Controls
101
Regional Efforts to Control Light Weapons
127
Light Weapons Human Rights and Social Development
183
Light Weapons and Human Development The Need for Transparency and Early Warning
185
Arms Transfers Humanitarian Assistance and Humanitarian Law
197
The World Bank Demobilization and Social Reconstruction
203
Conclusion
215
Light Weapons and Civil Conflict Policy Options for the International Community
217
Recommendations of the Report of the UN Panel of Governmental Experts on Small Arms Submitted by the Secretary General to the General Assem...
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An International Agenda on Small Arms and Light Weapons Elements of a Common Understanding Oslo Norway July 13141998
235

Mali and the West African Light Weapons Moratorium
129
Controlling Light Weapons in Southern Africa
147
International Cooperation in Controlling Light Weapons
159
The United Nations and the Control of Light Weapons
161
Light Weapons and International Law Enforcement
173
SUSTAINABLE DISARMAMENT FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT THE BRUSSELS CALL FOR ACTION October 12131998
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Selected Bibliography
245
Index
249
About the Contributors
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Michael T. Klare is Director of the Five College Program in Peace & World Security Studies in Amherst, Mass., & author of numerous books on the changing nature of warfare, including "Low-Intensity Warfare", "Word Security", & "Rogue States" & "Nuclear Outlaws". He lives in Northhampton, Massachusetts.

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