By: Dr. Marco Iazzetta Data art designer: Melina Carla D’Auria Versión en español a continuación Every 35 hours, a woman is assassinated in Argentina just for being a woman. This dire situation unleashed a wave of protests, beginning on 3 June 2015 with a march under the slogan ‘Ni una…

By: Nicolas Florquin, Alaa Tartir, and Anthony Obayi Onyishi

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. …