QUNO Geneva's Peace & Disarmament program works on highlighting the arms-related risks to human rights and tackling the challenges in addressing these risks by building effective arms controls at the international level. Read more about how we do that in this booklet.
Booklet Arms Control 2023.pdf 1.03 MB QUNO Geneva newsletter for February 2011 to June 2011. Featured stories
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This paper aims to demonstrate that peacebuilding initiatives can be led by local rather than international players and that this approach can work successfully on a large scale. The paper summarises four peacebuilding initiatives, all more or less locally led, which have operated on a large scale, and which have had real impact in ending violent conflict. It sets out steps that could be taken to move from current practice, in which local capacity for peacebuilding is viewed as marginal, to one where it is regarded as a central element of any strategy for managing conflict.
QUNO Geneva's newsletter for February to April 2009. Featured stories:
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Geneva Reporter, Aug 2008 - Oct 2008 346.02 KB This background paper aims to give Friends an overview of the “Geneva Declaration” process, and of QUNO’s involvement in it. This process seeks to highlight the links between armed violence and development, and to focus international attention on the reasons for which there is a demand for small arms and light weapons, rather than focusing, as is traditionally the case, on controlling the supply and transfer of small arms and light weapons.
This Briefing Paper introduces the problems that led to the adoption of the Geneva Declaration on Armed Violence and Development.
This leaflet provides an introduction to the Geneva Declaration process, which highlights the links between demand for arms to crucial development questions.
This is a joint publication by QUNO and the Small Arms Survey. It summarizes the findings of a multi-year project that included research in Brazil, Colombia, South Africa, Papua New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands. The paper aimed to inform the debates at the 2006 Review Conference (reviewing implementation of the 2001 UN Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects). Most international debates focus on the supply-related dimensions of small arms problems, which include, for instance, regulating arms brokers, establishing controls on arms transfers etc. This paper brings a necessary, complementary view, to broaden the international community’s understanding of those demand factors that underpin and drive small arms dynamics. The paper provides some practical suggestions about how demand issues may be taken up in the future.
ENGLISH_Demanding Attention.pdf 1.81 MB ESPAÑOL_Demanding Attention.pdf 2.97 MB FRANÇAIS_Demanding Attention.pdf 2.09 MB 
