Small Arms Survey 2007
Guns and the City

The Small Arms Survey 2007 features a special focus on the complex issue of urban violence.

Small Arms Survey, Geneva (Author)

9780521880398, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 6 September 2007

368 pages, 63 b/w illus. 13 maps 33 tables
25 x 19 x 3 cm, 1.182 kg

'The Small Arms Survey 2007 demonstrates that policies and programmes designed to prevent and reduce urban armed violence must take account of both perceptions of insecurity and real crime rates. In reviewing the scale, distribution, and effects of apparent and actual urban violence, this volume emphasizes the importance of providing the robust evidence essential to shape practical interventions. Only multi-dimensional and multi-sector approaches will ensure that cities are safer.' Professor Caroline Moser, Global Urban Research Centre, University of Manchester

The Small Arms Survey is an independent research project located at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. It serves as the principal international 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 Small Arms Survey 2007: Guns and the City offers new and updated information on small arms production, stockpiles, transfers, and measures, including a special focus on transfer controls. This year's thematic section explores the complex issue of urban violence with case studies on Burundi and Brazil as well as a photo essay by award-winning combat photographer Lucian Read. This edition also features chapters on lessons learned from the tracing of ammunition, the relationship between gun prices and conflict, and the role of small arms in South Sudan.

Foreword Antanas Mockus
Introduction
1. Multiplying the sources: licensed and unlicensed military production
2. Completing the count: civilian firearms
3. Probing the grey area: irresponsible small arms transfers
4. Back to basics: transfer controls in global perspective
Photo Essay. Guns in the frame: urban violence in the Philippines Lucian Read
5. Guns in the city: urban landscapes of armed violence
6. Armed violence in Burundi: conflict and post-conflict Bujumbura
7. Mapping the divide: firearm violence and urbanization in Brazil
8. What price the Kalashnikov? The economics of small arms
9. Enemy within: ammunition diversion in Uganda and Brazil
10. Persistent instability: armed violence and insecurity in South Sudan.

Subject Areas: Economics, finance, business & management [K], International relations [JPS], Political science & theory [JPA], Police & security services [JKSW1], Sociology [JHB], Peace studies & conflict resolution [GTJ], Development studies [GTF]