ASSESSING SMALL ARMS CONTROL INITIATIVES IN EAST AFRICA

2003 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 17-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
THOKOZANI THUSI
Keyword(s):  
East Africa ◽  
Arms Control ◽  
Small Arms

Disarmament

2008 ◽  
pp. 286-299
Author(s):  
Keith Krause
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Arms Control ◽  
Land Mines ◽  
International Peace ◽  
Small Arms ◽  
The World ◽  
Peace And Security ◽  
World Organization ◽  
Light Weapons

This article evaluates the achievements and limitations of the world organization in the field of disarmament. It stresses the role of the UN as part of the efforts to control arms as a way to achieve international peace and security. It also notes specific cases where progress was achieved or not, as well as the more recent efforts to handle the problems of anti-personnel land mines and small arms and light weapons. The article also tries to draw out some of the broader implications for international relations of the UN experience with formal multilateral arms control, among others.

Banning the sale of modern firearms in Africa: On the origins of the Brussels Conference Act of 1890

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 436-447
Author(s):  
Felix Brahm
Keyword(s):  
East Africa ◽  
Arms Control ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
African Continent ◽  
German Government ◽  
Naval Blockade ◽  
Control Scheme ◽  
The Way

The Brussels Anti-Slavery Conference in 1889–1890 agreed upon a sales ban of modern firearms for large parts of the African continent, a covenant that served joint imperial interests amid the ‘Scramble for Africa’. This article reconstructs the historical context in which the Brussels provisions came into being and explores the inter-imperial co-operation that paved the way for the agreement. To understand its origins, special attention must be paid to local events in East Africa and to a naval blockade that was executed here in 1888–1889. It was against this background that the German government, navigating between commercial and security interests, drafted the international control scheme that was later in large part adopted by the Brussels Conference. The article also demonstrates how in this context the issue of arms control was bound up with anti-slavery politics, thereby linking it to the imperial ‘civilising mission’.

Small Arms Control

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jayantha Dhanapala ◽  
Ambassador Mitsuro Donowaki ◽  
Swadesh Rana ◽  
Lora Lumpe
Keyword(s):  
Arms Control ◽  
Small Arms

scholarly journals The Emergence of the Arms Trade Treaty as a Global Norm Cluster

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Belinda Kay Gardner
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
International Society ◽  
Arms Control ◽  
Original Form ◽  
Small Arms ◽  
Arms Trade ◽  
Instrument Analysis ◽  
The Relationship

<p>The Arms Trade Treaty brings together a number of small arms control norms into one instrument and is a new initiative, which was instigated by state and NGO norm entrepreneurs. This thesis attempts to understand what has led to the emergence of these norms in the Arms Trade Treaty, in what will be termed a ‘cluster’ of small arms norms. Examining the small arms norms associated with the Arms Trade Treaty will explain their development and their likelihood of successfully being incorporated into this instrument. Analysis of the development of the norms related to the Arms Trade Treaty will explore the relationship between norms, their promoters and their opponents. This thesis will do this by providing detailed analysis of the development of specific norms in a series of case studies: control over arms brokering, transfers to non-state actors and civilian possession. It will place this development within the broader context of the ATT instrument and the international society in which it is emerging into. This thesis finds that power and powerful states have a significant role to play in the emergence of norms, in some cases despite the efforts of norm promoters. Norms were not able to emerge in their original form due to the influence of powerful states, which resulted in norms evolving in different directions or not emerging at all.</p>

Arms Control and Disarmament

2018 ◽  
pp. 382-395
Author(s):  
Keith Krause
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Arms Control ◽  
Great Power ◽  
Land Mines ◽  
International Peace ◽  
Small Arms ◽  
Security Governance ◽  
Chemical Weapons Convention ◽  
Arms Trade ◽  
Peace And Security

This chapter evaluates the achievements and limitations of the United Nations (including the Conference on Disarmament) in the field of disarmament, emphasizing the UN’s role as part of broader efforts to control arms as a means to achieve international peace and security. It presents an overview of UN disarmament efforts and discusses specific cases where progress was achieved, such as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), the Arms Trade Treaty, and efforts to tackle the problems of anti-personnel land mines and small arms and light weapons. Finally, it draws out the implications for international relations of the UN experience with formal multilateral arms control, disarmament and security-building processes by evaluating its role as a negotiating forum, a norm setter, an implementing agency, or an instrument of great power security governance.

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