1. Silencing Guns: Local Perspectives on Small Arms and Armed Violence in Rural Pacific Islands Communities
- Author:
- Emile LeBrun and Robert Muggah
- Publication Date:
- 06-2005
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Small Arms Survey
- Abstract:
- At a time when the funding for weapons reduction and armed conflict prevention work is at an all-time high and still growing, the lack of accessible, standard evaluative tools is becoming more and more conspicuous. Though this partly stems from a debate within the disarmament community as to what the right set of measures should be, it is also a reaction to the practical difficulty—in some cases, outright impossibility—of collecting quantitative data on armed violence, especially in rural areas. Clearly, there is a great need for alternative means of assessing and reporting on the impacts of both small arms availability and misuse, and efforts to reduce those impacts.
- Topic:
- Conflict Resolution, International Relations, and Arms Control and Proliferation
- Political Geography:
- Australia/Pacific and Island