Running Guns | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9781856498739 | Running Guns | The Global Black Market in Small Arms | Trans (u. a.)

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Beschreibung

Whether the war zone be in Africa, Sri Lanka, Chechnya or Afghanistan, most people are not killed by hi-tech or heavy weaponry, but by the small arms, cheap and accessible, that have flooded into so many countries in recent years. Crime rates involving guns have also soared, as South Africa and Kenya have experienced. Yet much of this cross-border arms trade is illegal. Several governments, including the United States, Canada and Mexico, are now pressing for a new global treaty on illegal trafficking in small arms.

This book is a fascinating, highly informative and policy-relevant investigation into an issue about which far too little is known, and which raises crucial questions about the black market.

Über den Autor

Lora Lumpe founded the Arms Sales Monitoring Project at the Federation of American Scientists in Washington DC in 1991 where she directed its research and advocacy programme until she became director of research at the Norwegian Initiative on Small Arms Transfers at the Peace Research Institute (PRIO), Oslo, in 1998. In addition to publishing numerous book chapters, magazine articles and op-eds, she edited the quarterly newsletter, Arms Sales Monitor. She coauthored Arms Trade Revealed: A Guide for Investigators and Activists (1998) and is the editor of other recent books on disarmament topics.

Zusammenfassung

This work, about the guns that fuel the toll of deaths in the world's most bloody conflicts in the early 21st century, seeks to advance understanding of the illegal arms traffic.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction - Lora Lumpe

Part I: Framing the Issue
2. Anatomy of a Shady Deal - Brian Johnson-Thomas
3. What's 'Legal'? What's 'Illegal'? - Emanuela-Chiara Gillard

Part II: The Sources
4. Government Gun-running to Guerrillas - Lucy Mathiak and Lora Lumpe
5. Manufacturing Trends - Pete Abel
6. Domestic Gun Markets - Wendy Cukier and Steve Shropshire

Part III: The Mechanics
7. Making the Deal and Moving the Goods-the role of brokers and shippers - Brian Wood and Johan Peleman
8. Gunsmoke and Mirrors: Financing the illegal trade - Tom Naylor

Part IV: The Way Forward
9. Combating Arms Trafficking - Sarah Meek
10. Law Enforcement and International Gun Trafficking - Ted Leggett
11. Summary of Recommendations - Lora Lumpe

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2000
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781856498739
ISBN-10:	1856498735
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Norwegian Initiative on Small Arms Trans International Peace Research Institute Norwegian Initiativ
Redaktion:	Lumpe, Laura
Hersteller:	Bloomsbury 3PL
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	216 x 140 x 15 mm
Von/Mit:	Norwegian Initiative on Small Arms Trans (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.10.2000
Gewicht:	0,371 kg