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Variety of small arms and light weapons surrendered during the Disarmament of Illegal Armed Groups Programme in Kabul, Afghanistan in 2008. Photo Credit: UN Photo/Shafiqullah Waak Conventional arms are weapons other than weapons of mass destruction. They …
Disarmament plays a crucial role in maintaining global peace and security. By reducing the number of weapons and limiting their spread, disarmament prevents conflicts and criminality, reduces the risks of armed violence (including against women and …
Weapons seized from suspected members of the Islamic insurgent group Al Shabaab in Mogadishu, Somalia. Photo credit: UN Photo/Stuart Price The Arms Trade Treaty was created to establish common standards for international trade in conventional arms and …
The use of missiles is increasingly becoming commonplace in armed conflict. missiles can be differentiated by their launch location (i.e. land, sea, and air platforms), their target (i.e., air, ground, ship etc.), their payload (e.g., conventional or …
Armed conflicts are increasingly taking place in population centres and populated areas. This urbanization of armed conflict and the use of weapons with high explosive force and with the capability to affect large areas is resulting in devastating and …
Improvised explosive devices (IED) remain a multi-faceted, cross-cutting threat to peace, security and sustainable development. Increasing urbanization of conflict and new developments in the design and detonation of IEDs pose additional challenges to …
The Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects as amended on 21 December 2001, usually referred to as the Convention on Certain …
Transparency and Confidence Building Measures help to prevent conflict by providing States with practical tools to exchange information, build trust and reduce tensions at the bilateral, regional or global level. Such measures help reduce excessive or …
Background The EU has persistently called for the immediate commencement and early conclusion of the negotiation of a Treaty banning the production of fissile material for nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices, based on document CD/1299 and …
