Small Arms and Light Weapons
In February 1994, the Committee on International Security Studies
(CISS) hosted the first major international workshop on the dangers posed by
the increased proliferation of small arms and light weapons to areas of
conflict around the world. A year later, CISS published
Lethal Commerce: The Global Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons.
Project directors Jeffrey Boutwell (Pugwash) and
Michael Klare (Hampshire College) next became involved in a number of different
activities examining ways to control the deadly traffic in small arms and
light weapons. They served as co-editors of Light
Weapons and Civil Violence: Controlling the Tools of Conflict,
published by Rowman and Littlefield in June 1999; gave presentations at
international policy workshops hosted by the governments of Canada (August
1998), Belgium (October 1998) and Switzerland (February 1999); served as
members of the executive board of the International Action Network on Small
Arms (IANSA); and consulted for the World Bank.
They also published several articles on policy options for
controlling light weapons (Arms
Control Today, December 1998, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, January/February 1999, and
Scientific American, June 2000). Funding for the project was
provided by the Ford Foundation, the Ploughshares Fund, the John Merck Fund,
the S.H. Cowell Foundation, the Winston Foundation for World Peace, and the
Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict.
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