By: Gergely Hideg and Gianluca Boo Though difficult to fathom as war rages in Ukraine, the years preceding the Russian invasion actually saw a reduction in global lethal violence. According to the latest update of the Small Arms Survey’s Global Violent Deaths (GVD) database, loss of life resulting from interpersonal…

By: Matt Schroeder Introduction Despite an unprecedented global campaign to curtail the illicit proliferation of man-portable air defence systems (MANPADS), armed groups continue to acquire and use these weapons at an alarming rate. The Small Arms Survey has identified reports of illicit MANPADS in 32 countries and territories on five continents…

By: Kheira Djouhri, with Emilia Dungel and Callum Watson Version française également disponible ci-dessous. The Security Council has stated that: the illicit transfer, destabilizing accumulation, and misuse of small arms and light weapons fuel armed conflicts and have a wide range of […] consequences […], including the disproportionate impact on…

The conflict in Ukraine is raising concerns about arms proliferation risks in the country and broader region, present and future. Our previous research on Ukraine provides insight into how these dynamics played out following the 2014–15 conflict in eastern Ukraine. Some examples: After the beginning of the conflict in 2014…

By: Nicolas Florquin and Alaa Tartir

Version française également disponible ci-dessous. By: Elodie Hainard and David Lochhead Agence France Presse estimates that in Burkina Faso alone, improvised explosive devices (IEDs) have killed nearly 300 civilians and soldiers since 2018. The Small Arms Survey documents the trafficking of IED components in the Sahel and West Africa, having…

By: Gian Giezendanner and Miles Lovell Though the causes and factors driving conflicts in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region have varied over the past 20 years, illicit firearms and ammunition have continued to remain a common feature. …

By: Jérôme Tubiana The first time I saw Idriss Déby was in 2014 at the first Dakar Forum, the now yearly event organized by the French Defence Ministry in Senegal’s capital to strengthen ties with African allies, in particular the-then brand new G5-Sahel coalition (Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, and…

By: Hannah Smith, Katie Addinall, and Liam Blunt Europe and the UK along with it, have some of the strictest laws regarding the possession of firearms. However, this alone does not stop the use of firearms in crime; partly due to the prevalence of modified and converted firearms seen throughout…