Controlling small arms : consolidation, innovation and relevance in research and policy /

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Imprint:Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2014.
Description:xxi, 311 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Studies in conflict, development and peacebuilding
Studies in conflict, development and peacebuilding.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9863085
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Other authors / contributors:Batchelor, Peter, 1967-, editor.
Kenkel, Kai Michael, editor.
ISBN:9780415856492 (hardback : alk. paper)
0415856493 (hardback : alk. paper)
9780203725412 (e-book : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • List of illustrations
  • Notes on contributors
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgements
  • Small Arms Survey
  • List of abbreviations
  • Introduction: the past, present and future of the small arms policy-research nexus
  • 1. The small arms problem as arms control: a policy-driven research agenda
  • Part I. The current state of small arms research
  • 2. Products and producers: a global business
  • 3. Stockpiles: the global geography of small arms numbers
  • 4. Transfers: more information, more transparency
  • 5. Armed actors: a new subject of research
  • 6. Effects: an emerging research and policy agenda
  • 7. Measures: informing diplomacy-the role of research in the UN small arms process
  • 8. Advocacy: defining the small arms control agenda
  • Part II. Innovative contributions to small arms research
  • 9. Firearms and crime in Brazil
  • 10. Challenging modernities in Rio de Janeiro: a critical analysis of the 'pacification' project
  • 11. The evolution and consolidation of norms on small arms
  • Part III. Conclusions and prospects for the future
  • 12. Small arms research: dynamics and emerging challenges
  • 13. Beyond stalemate: advocacy and action in the UN small arms process
  • Index