MISSING PIECES - Inter-Parliamentary Union

THEME 5
inal, political, intimate partner or family), categories of weapons owners
and users, new sources of weapons and supply routes, attitudes to and
perceptions of guns and disarmament, etc. Such data helps plan and shape
weapons collection programmes, and evaluate their impact.
Contributors to the original version of this theme include Camilla Waszink,
consultant, currently working for the Mines-Arms Unit of the International
Committee of the Red Cross. Comments and suggestions were received from
David de Beer, European Union Assistance Programme on Curbing Small
Arms and Light Weapons in the Kingdom of Cambodia; Josephine Bourgois,
Viva Rio; Zoe Dugal, UN Development Programme-Sierra Leone;
William Godnick, International Alert; and Maximo Halty, UN Development
Programme.
ESSENTIAL READING
Berdal, Mats (1996), Disarmament and Demobilisation after Civil Wars.
Adelphi Paper No. 303, Oxford University Press, Oxford. Available at:
www.iiss.org
Faltas, Sami and Vera Chrobok (eds.) (2004), Disposal of Surplus Small
Arms: A Survey of Practices in OSCE Countries: Ten Case Studies. BICC,
BASIC, Saferworld, and Small Arms Survey, Bonn. Available at: www.bicc.
de/publications
Jensen, Steffen and Finn Stepputat (2001), Demobilizing Armed Civilians.
CDR Policy Paper, Centre for Development Research, Copenhagen, December.
Available at: www.cdr.dk/policypapers/default.htm
Muggah, Robert (2005), Emerging from the Shadow of War: A Critical Perspective
on Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration and Weapons
Reduction during Post-conflict. The Journal of Contemporary Security Policy,
Vol. 27, Issue 1.
Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (2003), OSCE Handbook
of Best Practices on Small Arms and Light Weapons, units entitled
‘National procedures for stockpile management and security’; ‘Definition
and indicators of a surplus of SALW’; ‘National procedures for the destruction
of SALW’; ‘SALW in DD&R processes’. Available at: www.osce.org/
events/mc/netherlands2003/handbook
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