Author: Paul Holtom / Topic: Conflict Resolution

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:: Paul Holtom
Publication Date:: 07-2008
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Abstract:: Intergovernmental and public transparency in international transfers of small arms and light weapons (SALW) lags behind transparency levels for other conventional weapons. In recent years, intergovernmental organizations, export control regimes and states have worked to provide more information to other states and the public on SALW transfers. In December 2003 the United Nations General Assembly invited member states to provide information on SALW transfers to the UN Register of Conventional Arms (UNROCA).
Topic:: Conflict Resolution, International Relations, Arms Control and Proliferation, and War

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