Small Arms Survey 2007: Guns and the City

The Small Arms Survey is an independent research project located at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. It serves as the principal international source of public information on all aspects of small arms and armed violence, and as a resource centre for governments, policy-makers, researchers, and activists. The Small Arms Survey 2007: Guns and the City offers new and updated information on small arms production, stockpiles, transfers, and measures, including a special focus on transfer controls. This year's thematic section explores the complex issue of urban violence with case studies on Burundi and Brazil as well as a photo essay by award-winning combat photographer Lucian Read. This edition also features chapters on lessons learned from the tracing of ammunition, the relationship between gun prices and conflict, and the role of small arms in South Sudan.

About the Small Arms Survey	p. vi
Notes to readers	p. vi
Acknowledgements	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Multiplying the Sources: Licensed and Unlicensed Military Production
Introduction	p. 7
Licensed production: a primer	p. 8
The scope of licensed production	p. 13
Curbing proliferation: problems and solutions	p. 23
Conclusion	p. 32
Completing the Count: Civilian Firearms
Introduction	p. 39
A brief history of gun numbers	p. 40
No neutral numbers	p. 41
Invisible giant: the well-armed civilian	p. 46
Ways of knowing: registering, estimating, and correlative modelling	p. 49
National registration data: solid but partial	p. 49
Independent estimates: adding available figures	p. 53
Extrapolation from registration data	p. 55
Correlating civilian gun ownership from basic national indicators	p. 57
The cross-over effect: the movement of military firearms to civilians and civilian firearms to combatants	p. 60
The post-modern arms race	p. 61
From hunting to security: the changing nature of civilian gun ownership	p. 63
Firearm destruction: reinforcing civilian dominance	p. 64
Conclusion	p. 66
Probing the Grey Area: Irresponsible Small Arms Transfers
Introduction	p. 73
Irresponsible transfers I: human rights violations and armed conflict	p. 75
Irresponsible transfers II: stockpile (in)security and risk of diversion	p. 81
Transparency	p. 86
Conclusion	p. 97
Back to Basics: Transfer Controls in Global Perspective
Introduction	p. 117
Global update	p. 118
Spotlight on transfer controls	p. 128
Conclusion	p. 137
Photo Essay. Guns in the Frame: Urban Violence in the Philippines
Guns In the City: Urban Landscapes of Armed Violence
Introduction	p. 161
Understanding urban armed violence in the 21st century	p. 162
Urban political and criminal violence	p. 169
Urban responses to armed violence	p. 178
Conclusion	p. 188
Armed Violence in Burundi: Conflict and Post-Conflict Bujumbura
Introduction	p. 197
Armed violence in Burundi: the social and historical context	p. 198
Armed actors in Burundi	p. 203
Burundi's urban landscape	p. 207
Armed violence in post-conflict Burundi	p. 209
Civilian gun possession: a city trademark?	p. 215
Ex-combatants in the city	p. 218
Conclusion	p. 220
Mapping the Divide: Firearm Violence and Urbanization in Brazil
Introduction	p. 227
Firearm violence by municipality type: gathering the data	p. 228
Homicides and firearm homicides: urban v. rural	p. 230
Social determinants of urban and rural firearm homicides	p. 233
Youth and firearm violence in Brazil	p. 238
Outlying cases	p. 241
Urban and rural firearm suicide rates	p. 242
Conclusion	p. 246
What Price the Kalashnikov: The Economics of Small Arms
Introduction	p. 257
Collecting weapons price data	p. 258
Demand and supply in the small arms market	p. 262
Cheap guns, more war?	p. 269
Conclusions and future directions	p. 271
Enemy Within: Ammunition Diversion in Uganda and Brazil
Introduction	p. 289
The usual suspects? The case for leakage from state stocks in Karamoja, northern Uganda	p. 290
Wholesaling death: the cycle of ammunition diversion from state actors to organized crime in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	p. 301
Conclusion	p. 311
Persistent Insecurity: Armed Violence and Insecurity in South Sudan
Introduction	p. 317
'Post-conflict' political transition	p. 318
Armed groups in South Sudan	p. 320
Human insecurity in South Sudan	p. 327
Future challenges in South Sudan: An emerging framework for improving human security	p. 331
Conclusion	p. 339
Index	p. 350
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