Disarmament

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Disarmament

• Weapons Management and Destruction
• 4.10

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Overview

• Introduction
• Aim and objectives of Disarmament
• Operational risks and balanced Disarmament
• Technical risks and hazards Weapons management
• Information collection and operational planning
  phase
• Collection (or retrieval) phase

• Types of disarmament programmes process
• Weapons, ammunition and explosives collection,
  registration, transportation and storage
• Stockpile management phase
• Destruction of weapons, ammunition and other
  explosives
• Sequential operations

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Introduction

• Disarmament is the act of reducing or depriving
  of arms, and as such is applicable to all weapons
  systems, ammunition and explosives, including
  nuclear, chemical, biological, radiological and
  conventional systems
• Disarmament is primarily aimed at reducing or
  controlling the number of weapons held by
  combatants before demobilization

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Aim and Objectives of Disarmament

• Reduce or control the number of weapons held by
  combatants before demobilization
• Reduction in weapons possessed by, or available
  to, armed groups
• Reduction in actual, or the threat of, armed
  violence
• Minimal casualties during the disarmament
  component
• Improvement in the perception of human security

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Aim and Objectives of Disarmament

• Public connection between the availability of
  weapons and armed violence
• Build community awareness of the problem
• Reduction and disruption of the transfer and
  illicit trade of weapons
• Reduction of weapons in the community and the
  culture of weapons
• Development of norms against the illegal use of
  weapons

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Operational Risks and Balanced Disarmament

• Operational risks
• Threats to the safety and security of personnel
• Lack of sustainability of the disarmament process
  
• Balanced disarmament
• Assist in preventing warring factions from taking
  advantage of change in balance of military
  capability
• Disarmament organizations neutrality not to
  compromise

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Technical Risks and Hazards

• Reducing Risks
• Selection of equipment
• Work practices
• Risk education
• Sound and effective training
• Sound management and supervision
• Appropriate personal protective equipment
• Explosive hazards
• Technical advice

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Information Collection and Operational Planning
Phase

• Agreed collection points
• Team selection and structure
• Screening and individual eligibility criteria
• General
• Local advisers
• Inclusivity
• Non-weapon-holders
• Screening methodology

• Time-lines
• Weapons survey
• Risk assessment
• DDR awareness activities

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Collection (or Retrieval) Phase

• Static and mobile collection options
• Encampment
• Buffer zones and separation of forces
• Pick-up points
• Organization of a PUP
• Activities at the PUP
• Non-eligible individuals
• Special cases

• Weapons and explosive safety
• Activities at the Weapons Collection Point
• Static disarmament (D1) sites
• Activities at D1 sites
• Foreign combatants
• Mobile collection points
• Accounting and combatant registration
• EOD support

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Types of Disarmament Programmes Process

• DDR site based disarmament
• Sensitization
• Pick Up Points (PUPs)
• Unexploded Ordnance Site (UXO Site)
• The Disarmament site (D1 Site)

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Types of Disarmament Programmes Process

• Non DDR voluntary weapons collection initiatives
• Assessment and planning
• Incentives
• Amnesties and enforced weapons collection
  programmes
• Mobile disarmament initiatives
• National arms control initiatives (Legislative
  disarmament)

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Weapons, Ammunition and Explosives Collection,
Registration, Transportation and Storage

• Weapons, ammunition and explosives transportation
• Weapons, ammunition and explosives storage
• Weapons storage
• Ammunition and explosives storage
• Verification procedures

• Planning
• Weapons collection
• Ammunition and UXO collection
• Registration, marking and record-keeping

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Stockpile Management Phase

• Stockpile security
• Storage of weapons
• Storage of ammunition and explosives

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Destruction of Weapons, Ammunition and Other
Explosives

• Destruction of weapons
• Weapon destruction techniques and technologies
• Destruction planning and operations sequence
• Destruction of ammunition and explosives
• Destruction of UXO
• Destruction of rockets, missiles, etc
• IMAS 11.10 Stockpile destruction
• IMAS 11.20 Open burning open detonation
• IMAS 11.30 National planning guidelines

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Sequential Operations

• Demobilization directly follows disarmament, but
  can take place concurrently with disarmament
• Demobilization can take place at a later date