Small Arms Survey 2009
Shadows of War

The Small Arms Survey 2009 focuses on the security challenges facing post-conflict societies.

Small Arms Survey, Geneva (Edited by)

9780521880411, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 23 July 2009

352 pages
25.7 x 19.5 x 2.5 cm, 1.1 kg

'The Small Arms Survey 2009 underscores the terrible impact of conflict on children and youth. It highlights children's vulnerabilities, and in some cases, their resilience. It also explains how some children are drawn deeper into conflict as perpetrators of violence. I hope the Survey will embolden our efforts to stop the spread of the weapons that fuel such profound suffering.' Graça Machel, President, the Foundation for Community Development; Chairperson, the African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD)

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 Small Arms Survey 2009 contains two thematic sections. The first highlights the challenges of ensuring security after the formal end of war and comprises an overview chapter and three case studies (Aceh, Afghanistan, and Southern Lebanon). The second thematic section explores various aspects of small arms transfers, including the value of the authorized trade, national controls, and weapons tracing. Additional chapters focus on small arms measures and impacts.

1. Sifting the sources: unauthorized small arms transfers
2. Devils in diversity: export controls for military small arms
3. Revealing provenance: weapons tracing during and after conflict
4. Two steps forward: UN measures update
5. Man, the state, and war: the three faces of small arms disarmament
6. Large and small: impacts of armed violence on children and youth
7. Securing the peace: post-conflict security promotion
8. The limits of DDR: reintegration lessons from Aceh
9. DDR in Afghanistan: when state-building and insecurity collide
10. Testing received wisdom: perceptions of security in southern Lebanon.

Subject Areas: Human rights & civil liberties law [LNDC], 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]