Policy pointers

Disarmament & Peacekeeping

Global Nuclear Security: Building Greater Accountability and Cooperation

UNIDIR

This 78-page study presents an overview of the elements of the international nuclear security regime and discusses proposals to strengthen its accountability arrangements, as well as the challenges of expanding the scope of the regime and creating a framework for global nuclear security efforts

Defence, Terrorism & Security, Disarmament & PeacekeepingPosted: 2011-12-15

International Initiatives to Prevent Illicit Brokering of Arms and Related Materials

UNIDIR

A 12-page article on the challenge to locate the gaps that need to be plugged in the existing system of national laws and to identify what specific, concrete measures states can carry out to effectively tackle the problem of unregulated and poorly regulated arms brokering

Disarmament & PeacekeepingPosted: 2009-09-24

Missiles Matter

UNIDIR

An 8-page article examining the importance of missile control to international security

Disarmament & PeacekeepingPosted: 2007-02-21

A Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty: Understanding the Critical Issues

UNIDIR

A 104-page report of a project designed to shed light on the critical issues at stake in the negotiation of a fissile material treaty

Disarmament & PeacekeepingPosted: 2010-06-24

Arms Control: Forever Cinderella?

UNIDIR

A 4-page article examining the reasons for the neglect of arms control

Disarmament & PeacekeepingPosted: 2009-06-21

International Assistance for Implementing the UN Programme of Action on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects: Case Study of the South Pacific

UNIDIR

This 61-page report finds that there is critical and timely work to be done to improve national and subregional capacities to implement the United Nations Programme of Action to Combat, Eradicate and Prevent the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in the Pacific

Defence, Terrorism & Security, Disarmament & PeacekeepingPosted: 2009-11-16

International Assistance for Implementing the UN Programme on the Illicit Arms Trade of SALW

UNIDIR

A 44-page case study on international assistance to reduce the illegal trade in small arms and light weapons in East Africa

Disarmament & PeacekeepingPosted: 2007-07-30

Promising Confidence- and Security-Building Measures for Space Security

UNIDIR

This 12-page paper seeks to address the issue of space security by laying out the foundations of a space security treaty aimed at preventing physical conflict in outer space in order to preserve its continued use today and well into the future

Defence, Terrorism & Security, Disarmament & PeacekeepingPosted: 2009-12-08

Implementing the UN Programme of Action: A Checklist for Matching Needs and Resources

UNIDIR

A 48-page checklist designed as a tool in its own right to help states determine areas for advancing activities to combat, eradicate and prevent the illicit trade in SALW

Disarmament & PeacekeepingPosted: 2009-07-08

Universalization of Comprehensive Safeguards—Next Steps

UNIDIR

An 8-page paper arguing the benefits of the universalization of comprehensive safeguards as a means of strengthening nuclear disarmament

Disarmament & Peacekeeping, Defence, Terrorism & SecurityPosted: 2012-04-19

Security Needs Assessments and their Role in the New International Security Agenda

UNIDIR

A 9-page working paper explaining the function of the Security Needs Assessment Protcol (SNAP) in the context of disarmament efforts

Disarmament & Peacekeeping, Defence, Terrorism & SecurityPosted: 2007-04-27

Uranium Weapons: Why All the Fuss?

UNIDIR

This 10-page article evaluates the risks associated with uranium exposure

Disarmament & Peacekeeping, Public Safety & Disaster MitigationPosted: 2008-10-15

Designing Community Security Programmes

UNIDIR

This 7-page note discusses how to go about the generation of local knowledge and local understandings about security, and how to apply that knowledge at the working level

Defence, Terrorism & Security, Disarmament & PeacekeepingPosted: 2009-11-16

Cluster Munitions

UNIDIR

An issue of "Disarmament Forum" featuring articles dealing with different aspects of cluster munitions (single page linking to each article)

Disarmament & PeacekeepingPosted: 2006-10-16

Investments in Security

UNIDIR

Five articles examining a range of actions that can be considered investments in security (single page linking to each article)

Defence, Terrorism & Security, Disarmament & PeacekeepingPosted: 2005-10-25

Unfinished Business: The Negotiation of the CTBT and the End of Nuclear Testing

UNIDIR

This 383-page report aims to provide the international community with insights and signposts as to how to bring the CTBT into force and give it the teeth, through the International Monitoring System embodied in the Treaty, that the world needs and demands

Disarmament & PeacekeepingPosted: 2009-05-05

Space Security 2009: Moving towards a Safer Space Environment

UNIDIR

The 43-page report of a conference held to consider space security issues

Defence, Terrorism & Security, Disarmament & PeacekeepingPosted: 2009-10-20

Disarmament as Humanitarian Action: From Perspective to Practice

UNIDIR

A 6-page report of a seminar held to examine the role of humanitarian perspectives to inform and enhance the work of policy makers and multilateral negotiators in disarmament and arms control

Disarmament & PeacekeepingPosted: 2006-09-28

Implications of States' Views on an Arms Trade Treaty

UNIDIR

This report provides an in-depth analysis of states views on an arms trade treaty

Disarmament & PeacekeepingPosted: 2008-02-27

Multilateralization of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle: Helping to Fulfil the NPT Grand Bargain

UNIDIR

This 84-page study examines one aspect of the nuclear disarmament puzzle—the risks fuel-cycle technologies could pose to the viability of a world without nuclear weapons and what could be done to mitigate those risks

Disarmament & PeacekeepingPosted: 2010-12-21

Filling a Critical Gap, or Just Wasting Time?

UNIDIR

This article analyses Track Two diplomacy and considers where Middle East regional security Track Two may be going

Disarmament & Peacekeeping, Defence, Terrorism & SecurityPosted: 2008-07-16

Implementing the UN Programme of Action on Small Arms and Light Weapons: Analysis of the National Reports Submitted by States from 2002 to 2008.

UNIDIR, Small Arms Survey

A 191-page analysis of the National Reports submitted from 2001 to 2008 by UN member states on their implementation of the Programme of Action on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons

Disarmament & Peacekeeping, Defence, Terrorism & SecurityPosted: 2008-12-31

Between Nuclear Proliferation and Disarmament: Finding a Common Ground

United Nations

A summary of the proceedings and informal discussions of the Disarmament and International Security Committee of the United Nations during the 59th session

Defence, Terrorism & Security, Disarmament & PeacekeepingPosted: 2005-03-05

Human Rights, Human Security and Disarmament

United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research

No. 3, 2004 issue of this quarterly publication ("Disarmament Forum") featuring seven articles under the umbrella title of "Human Rights, Human Security and Disarmament". A 1-page link to the entire issue

Disarmament & PeacekeepingPosted: 2004-07-29

Disarmament Forum 2005 no. 1

United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research

This issue contains several articles focusing on advances in science and technology and their implications for the chemical and biological weapons regimes

Disarmament & Peacekeeping, Defence, Terrorism & SecurityPosted: 2004-12-17

What Works? Evaluating Interfaith Dialogue Programs

United States Institute for Peace

A 12-page report evaluating the impact and effectiveness of interfaith dialogue programs

Disarmament & PeacekeepingPosted: 2004-08-13