SALW Control, Security

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SALW Control, Security Development

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Overview

• Types of SALW Control programmes
• The components of an SALW Control programme
• SALW Control and Security Sector Reform (SSR)

• Introduction
• DDR and SALW Control
• International agreements
• SALW Control measures
• Guiding principles

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Introduction

• What is SALW Control?
• Refers to those activities, which, together, aim
  to reduce the impact of uncontrolled SALW
  proliferation and misuse in individual, community
  and national security
• SALW Control, Security and Development
• Influenced by the failure of the State to provide
  security to its citizens

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DDR and SALW Control

• DDR focuses on ex-combatants
• SALW Control component should be established to
  focus on wider arms control
• Sustainable peace requires a SALW Control
  programme
• Short-term stability
• Long-term peace consolidation

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International Agreements

• OAS Firearms Convention
• OAS SALW Resolution AG/RES.1968 (XXXIII-O/03)
• OSCE Document on SALW
• OSCE Document on Conventional Ammunition
• OSCE Decision on MANPADS

• ECOWAS Moratorium
• EU Code of Conduct on Arms Exports
• EU Joint Action on SALW
• EU SALW Strategy
• Nairobi SALW Protocol

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SALW Control Measures

• Measures to consider
• Cross border control issues
• Legislative and regulatory measures
• SALW surveys
• SALW awareness and communications strategies
• SALW collection operations
• SALW destruction operations
• Management of information
• SALW stockpile management
• Aim and operational objectives of SALW Control
  programmes

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Guiding Principles

• Safety
• Control
• Transparency
• Sustainability

• Legitimacy
• Impartiality
• Replicability

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Types of SALW Control Programmes

• Directed programmes
• Co-operative programmes
• Buy Back
• Guns for Food or Goods
• Weapons in Exchange for Development
• Weapons in Competition for Development
• Weapons Linked to Development
• Linkages to reintegration incentives and training

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• National control programmes
• National ownership
• Matrix of SALW collection incentive options
• Targets for SALW Control intervention
  programmes

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The Components of An SALW Control Programme

• Formation of a National SALW Commission
• Acceptability of weapons
• Assessment of the SALW threat
• Four major components of a comprehensive SALW
  Survey,
• Small Arms Distribution Assessment (SADA)
• Small Arms Impact Survey (SAIS)
• Small Arms Perception Survey (SAPS)
• Small Arms Capacity Survey (SACS)

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The Components of An SALW Control Programme
(Cont.)

• Planning of a national SALW Control programme
• Planning of a national SALW awareness programme.
• Funding of an SALW programme
• Development of an amnesty plan
• Development of national legislation
• Development of the collection and destruction plan

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The Components of An SALW Control Programme
(Cont.)

• Monitoring and verification of the SALW programme
• Development of a cross-border SALW movement
  prevention programme
• Evaluation of the SALW programme

• Accounting for weapons
• Implementation of the collection plan
• Implementation of the destruction plan

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SALW Control and Security Sector Reform (SSR)

• Weak security sector creates demand for SALW
• Demand for weapons is directly related to
  perception of threat
• SALW Control and SSR operational relationships

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SALW Control and Security Sector Reform (SSR)
(Cont.)

• The following should be examined for SALW in SSR
• Analysis of SSR should include a SALW Control
  component
• The functional areas of SALW Control
• SSR interventions should be coordinated with SALW
• Obtain information on community perceptions
• SSR should be supported by a SALW Awareness
  campaign

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