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Small Arms Agenda at U.N. Biennial Meeting of States (BMS)
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July 24, 2008 |
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| Over 130 United Nations member states met from July 14-18 for the Biennial Meeting of States (BMS), where states reviewed progress on the implementation of the Programme of Action that establishes national, regional and global measures to stem the illicit trade in small arms and light weapons. Unlike previous U.N. small arms meetings, the United States did not participate in this year’s BMS. CDI Research Assistant Jonah Leff offers a detailed analysis of last week’s conference.
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U.N. Holds Small Arms Conference: United States is Absent
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July 7, 2008 |
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| Countries from around the world will meet at the United Nations in New York from July 14-18 for the Biennial Meeting of States (BMS) to “consider” implementation of the U.N. Programme of Action on Small Arms – a politically binding agreement outlining state responsibility at the national, regional and global levels to curb the proliferation and misuse of small arms. Despite its involvement at previous small arms conferences, the United States will not be present. CDI Senior Analyst Rachel Stohl offers an analysis of the upcoming U.N. conference. |
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The Small Arms Trade in Latin America
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March 20, 2008 |
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| Small arms and gun violence present the most dramatic threat to public safety in Latin America and the Caribbean. After decades of uncontrolled proliferation, at least 45 million to 80 million small arms and light weapons are circulating throughout the region. In the article "The Small Arms Trade in Latin America," published by the NACLA Report on the Americas, CDI Senior Analyst Rachel Stohl and Reserach Assistant Doug Tuttle explore the scope of Latin America's small arms trade and its negative consequences for the region. |
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Rachel Stohl
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Doug Tuttle
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“Merchant of Death” Arrested in Thailand
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March 10, 2008 |
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| On March 6, 2008, notorious arms dealer Viktor Bout, known as the "Merchant of Death," was arrested in Thailand on charges of attempting to sell weapons to a Colombian rebel group on the U.S. terrorism watchlist. Bout, who had evaded arrest by exploiting the patchwork of national and international laws regulating arms brokering, supplied weapons to many of the world’s bloodiest conflicts during the last two decades. CDI Senior Analyst Rachel Stohl and Research Assistant Doug Tuttle analyze Bout’s arrest, examine why arms dealers like Bout are able to thrive, and describe what is and could be done to stop other unscrupulous arms dealers. |
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Rachel Stohl
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Doug Tuttle
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Controlling the Most Dangerous Weapons
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November 12, 2004 |
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| In her recent op-ed, CDI Senior Analyst Rachel Stohl argues that as casualties mount in Iraq, it is obvious that the greatest current threat to American soldiers comes not from exotic weapons of mass destruction, but from the vast quantities of conventional weapons – guns, missiles and explosives – within easy reach of terrorists and insurgents. It is explosives and AK-47s, not anthrax, that are sending Americans home in body bags. Therefore, the State Department's Small Arms/Light Weapons Program, which has destroyed more than 700,000 excess weapons, should be funded at the $9 million budget request. |
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Matthew Schroeder
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Rachel Stohl
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The Tangled Web of Illicit Arms Trafficking
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October 6, 2004 |
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| (PDF) CDI Senior Analyst Rachel Stohl participated in a panel discussion hosted by the Center for American Progress entitled “Terror in the Shadows” on October 5, 2004. The panel brought together four leading experts on illicit trafficking – in money, guns, diamonds and human beings - to analyze how these networks operate, interact, spread and provide vital support to terrorist networks around the world. Stohl discussed the illicit trafficking in small arms and the relationship the black market has to the legal trade in arms. Copies of the papers of the panelist can be found at www.americanprogress.org |
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Rachel Stohl
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It's the Guns, Stupid
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July 28, 2004 |
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| As the threat of weapons of mass destruction spurs our government to action, a far more insidious threat endangers citizens around the world. The massive proliferation of guns! Gun trafficking has always been President Bush's blind spot in the war on terror. The inherent danger from the 4,000 gun shows a year in the United States, where terrorists and criminals can load their vans with countless weapons -- no questions asked -- may actually grow worse in the coming months.
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Rachel Stohl
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Forget WMD -- It's Conventional Arms That Are Killing GIs And Iraqis
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July 19, 2004 |
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| In her Los Angeles Times op-ed, CDI Senior Analyst Rachel Stohl argues that when the United States turned over sovereignty to the new government of Iraq last month, it did so without confronting one of the most pressing problems facing the country: the millions of small arms and light weapons plaguing Iraq's security and threatening its stability. |
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The Legacy of Illicit Small Arms: Devastation in West Africa
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May 20, 2004 |
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| A Congressional Human Rights Caucus Members' Briefing on the devastating impact that the illicit trafficking of small arms has on the region in West Africa. May 20, 2004. Remarks by panelist and CDI Senior Analyst Rachel Stohl. |
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Rachel Stohl
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Small Arms and Light Weapons: The Crisis in International Security
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March 29, 2004 |
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| One of the most dangerous and important aspects of the small arms problem, which the UN is particularly well-positioned to address, is the pervasiveness of light combat weapons in the post-conflict environment, especially in situations of civil war and insurgency where militias, paramilitary bands, warlord armies, and other unconventional forces were extensively equipped with small arms and light weapons. In this setting, the announcement of a cease-fire and the formal conclusion of hostilities is often the occasion for a new round of fighting, in which remnants of official and non-official forces contend for economic and political advantage in a devastated society – a situation seen, for example, in such recent conflict zones as Afghanistan, Haiti, Iraq, and Kosovo. It follows from this that micro-disarmament in the post-conflict environment is an essential aspect of any international peacekeeping operation. |
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Rachel Stohl
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