The UN and the 2015 Small Arms Survey
For anyone interested in global dialog regarding small arms, the Small Arms Survey 2015: Weapons and the World examines the role of weapons and armed violence in humanity’s appropriation of the earth’s wildlife and mineral riches—in Africa, where the poaching of elephants and rhinos is becoming increasingly militarized, and near resource extraction sites around the world.
In addition to presenting updates on the UN small arms process and the top arms importers and exporters, the volume assesses how recent technological developments affect weapons marking, record-keeping, and tracing; reviews small arms flows to Egypt, Libya, and Syria before and after the ‘Arab Spring’; and evaluates a stockpile management initiative in South-east Europe. The ‘armed actors’ section sheds light on the arms and ammunition used by insurgents in northern Mali, the decline of the Forces Démocratiques de Libération du Rwanda, and the use of floating armouries by private security companies in the Indian Ocean. This edition also analyses the conditions that are driving young people to adopt high-risk coping strategies in Burundi.
The report was launched at the UN HQ in New York on 1 June 2015, during this press conference and during a public launch afterwards.
Speakers: Anna Alvazzi del Frate, Small Arms Survey Research Director; Khristopher Carlson, Small Arms Survey Senior Researcher; Glenn McDonald, Small Arms Survey Senior Researcher and Yearbook Coordinator; Paul Seger, Permanent Representative of Switzerland.
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