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2013 Future Policy Award Follow-Up: Arms Control Exchange Between Argentina And Bosnia And Herzegovina
On March 6-7, UNDP Bosnia and Herzegovina and the World Future Council (WFC) organized a conference and weapons destruction event for representatives of government, police authorities and civil society from Argentina and Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) to exchange their experiences in addressing small arms issues. The events came in follow-up to the 2013 Future Policy Award (FPA), which WFC in partnership with UNODA and the Inter-Parliamentary Union held on the theme of disarmament. The FPA recognized Argentina’s National Program for the Voluntary Surrender of Firearms for its…
Assistance to Liberia in Marking Small Arms
The United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa (UNREC) and the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) cooperated to provide technical assistance and training to Liberia on marking and registering small arms and light weapons. This assistance, undertaken in cooperation with the National Commission on Small Arms of Liberia and its Ghanaian counterpart, aimed to assist Liberia in implementing the provisions of Security Council resolution 2190 (2014) by which Liberia is to assume complete security responsibilities by June 2016, including on small arms, and is to…
The Importance of Civil Society in United Nations and Intergovernmental Processes: Views from Four Delegates to the United Nations
The Office for Disarmament Affairs (ODA) is pleased to announce the release the fourth annual edition of Civil Society and Disarmament. In the previous editions of this publication, the contents were either articles written by civil society representatives or statements delivered by non-governmental organizations at disarmament forums. ODA decided to take a different approach with this edition, encouraging a select group of official delegates posted to their United Nations missions in New York to consider the ever more important role played by civil society groups in…
UNREC training to MINUSMA on combatting arms trafficking in Mali
In January 2015, UNREC carried out a four-day training course on combatting illicit arms trafficking for the staff of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), in cooperation with the Integrated Mission Training Centre and other United Nations partners. The purpose of the course was to enhance the capacities of MINUSMA peacekeepers to combat the illicit trafficking in small arms and light weapons in Mali. The course covered the following key topics: identifying and tracing arms and ammunitions; West African and global small arms and…
High Representative briefs member States on the lessons-learned exercise on the UN Mission in Syria
The High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Ms. Angela Kane, provided a briefing to Member States on 10 March 2015 offering a comprehensive review of the lessons-learned exercise for the United Nations Mission to Investigate Allegations of the Use of Chemical Weapons in the Syrian Arab Republic (hereinafter “UN Mission in Syria”) underscoring both the challenges faced and the assets that contributed to its success. The High Representative reviewed the chronology of the exercise and the related workshops that took place in both Glion, Switzerland and New York to…
Linking the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) and Arms Control Agendas
Daniël Prins joins Natasha Stott Despoja, Cora Weiss, Jasmin Nario-Galace and Ray Acheson in a panel discussion. Photo credit: Catriona MacGregor Panellists called for more effective, gender-specific arms control policies at a discussion hosted by the Australian Government in association with the International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA) Women’s Network, the Global Alliance on Armed Violent (GAAV), and UNODA. The 12 March event, titled ‘Linking the Women Peace and Security (WPS) and Arms Control Agendas’, was held in the margins of this year’s Commission on the Status of Women…
Regional Non-Proliferation Coordination Workshop takes place in Panama City, Panama
From 4-5 February 2015, a Regional Non-Proliferation Coordination Workshop took place in Panama City, Panama. It was organized by the Regional Advisor of the Office of Export Control Cooperation (EXBS), Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation, U. S. Department of State. Representatives of stakeholders that engage in non-proliferation related initiatives and assistance programmes in Latin America and the Caribbean gathered to discuss ways to improve cooperation by exchanging information and sharing experiences. Participants included representatives from relevant…
UNODA at the 16th Committee on Teaching about the United Nations (CTAUN) Conference
On Friday 30 January 2015, two representatives of the United Nations Office of Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) participated at the information fair of the 16th Conference of the Committee on Teaching about the United Nations (CTAUN) for the second consecutive year. This year’s Conference focussed on the achievements of the United Nations since the signing of its founding Charter in 1945, throughout its growth from an organisation of 51 member states to an organisation of 193 member states over the past seventy years. The Conference also addressed the future of the United Nations and invited…
UNRCPD promotes Peace and Disarmament Education in Nepal Schools
The United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the Pacific (UNRCPD) is assisting Nepal’s Ministry of Education to build the capacity of curriculum developers and textbook writers to integrate peace and disarmament education into Nepal’s school curricular materials. Launched in 2013 in post-conflict Nepal, this project reinforces efforts to cement peace at the national level by helping children and teachers understand and adopt non-violent ways of dealing with conflict, and ultimately change their behavior. Raj Kumar Dhungana, Peace and Disarmament…