Author: Lucie béraud-Sudreau / Publishing Institution: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute

Author:: Paul Holtom, Lucie béraud-Sudreau, and Henning Weber
Publication Date:: 05-2011
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Abstract:: The key international mechanism for states to report on international arms transfers is the United Nations Register of Conventional Arms (UNROCA). UNROCA was established to build confidence and cooperation between states. The information provided by states to UNROCA is used in analyses of states' intentions and capabilities and in bilateral or regional consultations to help avoid misinterpretations, miscalculations and the exaggeration of threats that can influence arms races and armed conflicts. Information reported to UNROCA is made publicly available. Therefore parliamentarians and interested citizens can use UNROCA to help monitor their government's compliance with its national and international legal obligations regarding the prevention of conflict, human rights violations and, to a degree, illicit arms transfers.
Topic:: Conflict Resolution, Security, Arms Control and Proliferation, United Nations, and Armed Struggle

Author:: Siemon T. Wezeman, Pieter D. Wezeman, and Lucie béraud-Sudreau
Publication Date:: 12-2011
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Abstract:: Concerns regarding arms transfers to sub-Saharan Africa are widespread and have motivated worldwide efforts to control arms flows. Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding South Africa) accounted for 1.5 per cent of the volume of world imports of major arms in 2006–10. Although this is low by global standards, with little indigenous arms-production capacity in the region, most countries are fully dependent on arms imports.
Topic:: Security, Arms Control and Proliferation, International Cooperation, Peace Studies, and Weapons of Mass Destruction
Political Geography:: Africa

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