Small Arms Survey 2013

Herausgeber: Small Arms Survey, Geneva

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Highlights emerging trends and concerns regarding armed violence and small arms proliferation as well as related policies and programming.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 189mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 964g
• ISBN-13: 9781107672444
• ISBN-10: 1107672449
• Artikelnr.: 39359523

Autorenporträt

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, policymakers, 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.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Everyday dangers: non-conflict armed violence
2. Too close to home: guns and intimate partner violence
3. Turning points: gang evolution in Nicaragua
4. Guns in the family: Mafia violence in Italy
5. Survival at stake: violent land conflict in Africa
6. Trend lines: armed violence in South Africa
7. Second wind: the PoA's 2012 review conference
8. Trade update: authorised small arms transfers
9. Burning the bullet: industrial demilitarisation of ammunition
10. 'Infernal machines': improvised explosive devices
11. Price watch: arms and ammunition at illicit markets
12. Captured and counted: illicit weapons in Mexico and the Philippines.