Working paper 18-1 November 2018 By Sonal Marwah and Tom Clark Executive summary The United Nations (UN) has played a key role in …
UN Arms Embargoes and the Arms Trade Treaty
Author Kenneth Epps Working Paper 10-2 This paper argues that forthcoming negotiations of an international Arms Trade Treaty would benefit from the lessons learned from states’ implementation of United Nations …
U.S. Policy and the Arms Trade Treaty
Author Rachel Stohl Working Paper 10-1 Unlike their nuclear counterparts, conventional weapons have been relatively unregulated in international forums. Because the global trade in conventional arms is a necessary and …
A Roundtable on Nuclear Issues in Relation to Iran
Authors Ernie Regehr and Bill Janzen Working Paper 09-1 This paper reports on the proceedings of a roundtable organized by Project Ploughshares, the Mennonite Central Committee Canada, the University of …
Small Arms Proliferation and Misuse: Towards a Caribbean plan of action
Working Paper 08-1 In a 2007 report, the UN noted that murder rates in the Caribbean had reached 30 per 100,000 each year – higher than any other region of …
Nuclear Disarmament: An action agenda for Canada
Author Ernie Regehr Working Paper 07-1 Nuclear disarmament principles and practices are under severe threat. This means that all of us and the planet itself are under threat, confirmation of …
Towards Safe and Sustainable Communities: Addressing armed violence as a development priority
Author Kenneth Epps Working Paper 07-2 Since 2006, Project Ploughshares has worked with the policy branch of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) on a joint project to address the …
U.S. Small Arms and Global Transfer Principles
Author Rachel Stohl Working Paper 06-1 The United States is the world’s largest arms exporter and leads all countries in both arms transfer agreements with and arms deliveries to developing …
Canada and Small Arms Exports
Author Kenneth Epps Working Paper 06-2 In the international arena Canada has been an exemplary and consistent advocate of improved and restrictive controls on the transfers of small arms and …
The Responsibility to Protect: East, West and Southern African perspectives on preventing and responding to humanitarian crises
Author Greg Puley Working Paper 05-5 This paper draws on the findings of a series of consultations carried out in East, West and southern Africa in 2004 and 2005. It …