Light Weapons and Civil Conflict

Edited by
Jeffrey Boutwell and Michael T. Klare
(Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1999)
Order from the Publisher

Table of Contents

Introduction

Part One: Light Weapons and International Conflict

• The International Trade in Light Weapons:
  What Have We Learned?
  Michael T. Klare
• Light Weapons and Conflict in the Great Lakes Region of Africa
  Kathi Austin
• Controlling the Black and Gray Markets in Small Arns in South Asia
  Tara Kartha

Part Two: Controlling the Supply of Light Weapons

• U.S. Policy and the Export of Light Weapons
  Lora Lumpe
• The European Union and the Light Weapons Trade
  Paul Eavis and William Benson
• Domestic Laws and International Controls
  Natalie J. Goldring

Part Three: Regional Efforts to Control Light Weapons

• Mali and the West African Light Weapons Moratotium
  Joseph P. Smaldone
• Controlling Light Weapons in Southern Africa
  Hussein Solomon

Part Four: International Cooperation in Controlling Light Weapons

• The United Nations and the Control of Light Weapons
  Graciela Uribe de Lozano
• Light Weapons and International Law Enforcement
  James P. McShane

Part Five: Light Weapons, Human Rights, and Social Development

• Light Weapons and Human Development: The Need for Transparency and Early Warning
  Edward J. Laurance
• Arms Transfers, Humanitarian Assistance, and Humanitarian Law
  Peter Herby
• The World Bank, Demobilization, and Social Reconstruction
  Nat J. Colletta

Conclusion

• Light Weapons and Civil Conflict: Policy Options for the International Commmunity
  Jeffrey Boutwell and Michael T. Klare
• Appendix A: Recommendations of the Report of the UN Panel of Governmental Experts on Small Arms, Submitted by the Secretary-General to the General Assembly, August 27, 1997
• Appendix B:An International Agenda on Small Arms and Light Weapons: Elements of a Common Understanding, Oslo, Norway, July 12-13, 1998
• Apendix C: Sustainable Disarmament for Sustainable Development: The Brussels Call for Action, October 12-13, 1998