Introduction; 1. A fatal relationship: guns and deaths in Latin America and the Caribbean; 2. When business gets bloody: state policy and drug violence; 3. A matter of survival: non-lethal firearm violence; 4. Blue skies and dark clouds: Kazakhstan and small arms; 5. Between state and non-state: Somaliland's emerging security order; Photo essay: troubled waters: Somali piracy; 6. Escalation at sea: Somali piracy and private security companies; 7. Precedent in the making: the UN Meeting of Governmental Experts; 8. Piece by piece: authorized transfers of parts and accessories; 9. Point by point: trends in transparency; 10. Surveying the battlefield: illicit arms in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Somalia.
Highlights emerging trends and concerns regarding armed violence and small arms proliferation as well as related policies and programming.
The Small Arms Survey is an independent research project located at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. It serves as the principal source of public information on all aspects of small arms and armed violence and as a resource centre for governments, policy-makers, researchers and activists. The project has an international staff with expertise in security studies, political science, law, economics, development studies, sociology and criminology, and collaborates with a network of partners in more than 50 countries.
'Like previous editions, the Small Arms Survey 2012: Moving Targets
provides original research and analysis that can improve
policy-making. It can also contribute to the development of
measurable goals for small arms control. I commend the Small Arms
Survey 2012 as an authoritative volume to Member States and all
stakeholders committed to reducing the devastating toll that small
arms inflict on individuals, communities, and entire countries and
regions.' Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations
'The Small Arms Survey 2012 presents valuable new perspectives,
drawn from empirical research, on state efforts to contain
drug-related violence in Latin America. While more research is
needed, it suggests that emerging strategies focusing on violence
reduction – rather than on the complete eradication of illicit drug
activity – may hold promise for improving security in communities
caught in the crossfire of 'drug wars'.' Fernando Henrique Cardoso,
Chair, Global Commission on Drug Policy and President of Brazil,
1995–2002
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