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Dec 2015

Voicing Concern: Surveying People's Priorities in Violent Settings

Nicolas Florquin, Irene Pavesi

Small Arms Survey

This brief reviews the findings of forty-three household surveys which were conducted in a variety of countries that have experienced high levels of violence. The aggregate results confirm that 1) sec...

Dec 2015

Recoilless Weapons

N R Jenzen-Jones

Small Arms Survey

This Note describes the technical features of recoillness light weapon systems and provides a brief history of their use and development.

Dec 2015

Case Studies in Base Metal Processing and Benefication: Lessons from East Asia and the SADC Region

Roman Grynberg, Kedibonye Sekakela

South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA)

This report examines the troubled attempts by Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, and Zambia to introduce base metal beneficiation into their mining industries. (Note: Beneficiation involves improving the ...

Dec 2015

Burying Heads in Geneva Sands: Without Dismantling the Sectarian Crux of Assad’s Rule, Syria Peace Talks Are Unlikely to Usher in Stability

Khaled Yacoub Oweis

Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)

This commentary first explores the reasons why Syria began its slide towards civil war in 2011. (The web of corruption involving the Assad family, the country's security apparatus, and their business ...

Dec 2015

Organized Crime and Development: Challenges and Policy Options in West Africa’s Fragile States

Judith Vorrath

Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)

This research paper looks at how transnational organized crime (TOC) affects economic and human development, particularly in fragile and conflict-affected states. More specifically, the paper 1) explo...

Dec 2015

Russian Energy Policies Revisited

Alexander Gusev, Kirsten Westphal

Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)

This paper focuses on 1) Russia’s energy policies since the political crises in and around Ukraine, and 2) the significant structural changes that are occurring in the country’s gas, oil and electrici...

Dec 2015

Reducing the Risk of Nuclear War in the Nordic/Baltic Region

Barry Blechman, Alex Bollfrass, Laicie Heeley

Stimson Center

Could political conflicts in the Nordic/Baltic region lead to war between Russia and NATO, including the possible use of nuclear weapons? Barry Blechman & his colleagues worry it’s possible. That’s why 1) NATO needs to bolster its ability to defend the Baltic States, and 2) the region should become a Nuclear Weapons Free Zone.

Dec 2015

Revising the UN Peacekeeping Mandate in South Sudan

Lisa Sharland, Aditi Gorur

Stimson Center

As Lisa Sharland and Aditi Gorur see it, there’s an uncommonly cited reason why the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) has struggled to protect civilians from political violence. It’s the instability caused by shifting United Nations mandates. Here’s how to solve the mixed signals they send.

Dec 2015

The SIPRI Top 100 Arms-Producing and Military Services Companies, 2014

Aude Fleurant, Sam Perlo-Freeman, Pieter D Wezeman, Siemon T Wezeman, Noel Kelly

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

This Fact Sheet lists SIPRI’s Top 100 arms-producing and military services companies in 2014 and describes the international arms sales trends that unfolded during the year. More specifically, it show...

Dec 2015

The Role of Parliamentarians in Building Security In and For Europe

Ian Anthony

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

This paper focuses on the roles played by parliamentarians in reassessing and building security in Europe. More specifically, the text’s author 1) highlights the lawmakers’ expectations and capabiliti...

Dec 2015

Resistance to the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Virginia Arsenault

swisspeace

This paper examines the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), which was launched in 2008 to gather the testimonies of students who attended the dysfunctional Indian Residential School sy...

Dec 2015

Perspectives on Terrorism Volume 9, No 6 (2015)

Victoria Barber, Daniel Koehler, Nilay Saiya, Brett A Barnett, Sam Mullins, Joel Day, Anne Speckhard, Ahmet S Yayla

Terrorism Research Initiative (TRI)

The featured article in this issue of “Perspectives on Terrorism” analyzes the relationship between ‘core al Qaeda’ and other established groups in the global jihadist movement. The subsequent articles focus on 1) how right-wing extremist groups react when...

Dec 2015

Stability: IJSD Vol 4, No 1 (2015)

Ernesto Vargas, Lorenzo Wakefield, Sean Tait, Duncan Omanga, Annette Idler, James Forest, Monique Marks, Chris Overall, Gavin Bradshaw, Richard Haines, Saad Shabbir, Vaqar Ahmed, Jacob Jacob, Idorenyin Akpan, David Mitchell, Mareike Schomerus, Anouk Rigterink, Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic, Nicholas Benequista, David Chandler, Jennifer Hyndman, Elijah Ndemo, Tariro Mutongwizo, Lezanne Leoschut, Patrick Burton, Sarala Emmanuel, Kusala Wettasinghe, Fiona Samuels, Sivaprashanthi Thambaiah, Indrani Rajendran, Ananda Galappatti, Sheree Bennett, Alyoscia D'Onofrio, Manuela Kuehr, Farzana Haniffa, Sahar Taghdisi Rad, David Moore, Xiao´ou Zhu, Harshavardhan Bhat, Tali Cassidy, Melikaya Ntshingwa, Jakub Galuszka, Richard Matzopoulos, Zenebe Beyene, Abdissa Zerai, Iginio Gagliardone, Gado Alzouma, Robert Muggah, Chris O'Donnell, Gail Super, Arthur Boutellis, Jorge Giraldo-Ramírez, Andrés Preciado-Restrepo, Iginio Gagliardone, Ashnah Kalemera, Lauren Kogen, Lillian Nalwoga, Nicole Stremlau, Wakabi Wairagala, Juan Carlos Garzón-Vergara, Patricia Bulla, Sergio Guarín, Cathy Haenlein, Ashlee Godwin, Anouk Rigterink, Ali Ali, Mauricio García-Villegas, Jose Rafael Espinosa, Nicole Stremlau, Ridwan Osman, Athena Kolbe, Sam Vincent, Florian Weigand, Hameed Hakimi, Mary Kaldor, Sabine Selchow, Alaa Tartir, María Victoria Llorente, David Curran, Paul Holtom, Dennis Rodgers, Steffen Jensen, Alberto Barrera, Eleanor Gordon, Anthony Cleland Welch, Emmicki Roos, Steven A. Zyck, Robert Muggah, Nikkie Wiegink, Helene Maria Kyed, Mikael Gravers, Jairo Munive, Finn Stepputat, Zurab Elzarov, Sahr Muhammedally, Cedric de Coning, John Karlsrud, Paul Troost, Marla Keenan, Alexander William Beadle, John de Boer

Ubiquity Press

This edition of Stability features 2 editorials, 51 research articles, 4 practice notes, and 1 commentary on a variety of security- and development-related subjects. The articles, for example, focus on behavioral patterns among (violent) non-state actors; silencing Boko Haram via…

Dec 2015

Afghanistan-Pakistan Relations: The Prospect of Reviving Taliban Talks

Moeed Yusuf

United States Institute of Peace (USIP)

This brief focuses on 1) the feasibility of Pakistan-brokered reconciliation talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban, and 2) the open questions the talks raise. The latter include 1) Afgha...

Dec 2015

Security and Social Developments in Kunduz

Peyton Cooke, Eliza Urwin

United States Institute of Peace (USIP)

This brief, which is based on interviews with local actors in Afghanistan, examines the reasons why Kunduz province temporarily fell to the Taliban in September 2015. It additionally discusses 1) how ...