{"id":1638,"date":"2014-05-27T14:57:19","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T14:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=1638"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:50:31","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:50:31","slug":"arms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2014\/05\/27\/arms\/","title":{"rendered":"Arms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/smallarmsdata.org\/\">\u00a0Small Arms Data Observatory (SADO) launched <\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong>A new website launched by an international consortium of researchers which will focus upon quantitative data . Many researchers are based at \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiego.edu\/peacestudies\/index.php\">Joan B. Kroc School for Peace Studies<\/a>\u00a0at the University of San Diego and there will be a focus initially on \u00a0North America, Central America and South America. \u00a0Information on the website is \u00a0currently limited, but they aim to produce working papers as well as data for downloading.<\/p>\n<p>Other useful sources for small arms research include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sipri.org\/research\/armaments\/milex\/milex_database\">SPIRI\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0which covers all aspects of weapons, arms and the arms trade \u00a0The renown SPIRI military expenditure and arms trade databases covers from 1988 onwards.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/disarmament\/convarms\/SALW\/\">United Nations Section for Disarmament<\/a>\u00a0has materials on \u00a0small arms.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.smallarmssurvey.org\/\">Small Arms Survey<\/a>\u00a0is an independent research project located at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies\u00a0in Geneva, Switzerland. Its flagship publication is the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.smallarmssurvey.org\/publications\/by-type\/yearbook.html\">Small Arms Survey Yearbook<\/a>\u00a0which can be downloaded from 2001 onwards from the website, \u00a0giving an overview of trends in manufacture, trade, expenditure and the human cost of firearms.<\/li>\n<li>Norwegian Initiative on Small Arms Transfers has a<a href=\"http:\/\/nisat.prio.org\/Trade-Database\/\">\u00a0database of the international authorised trade<\/a>\u00a0in small arms and light weapons. \u00a0covering the period 1962-2011<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.prio.org\/data\/mapping-arms-data\/\">Mapping Arms Data (MAD) visualization project<\/a>\u00a0produced by PRIO and the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/igarape.org.br%e2%80%8e\/\">Igarap\u00e9 Institute<\/a>.\u00a0 It represents an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2012\/08\/a-new-way-to-visualize-global-arms-trade.html\">upgrade of the original<\/a>\u00a0global small arms, light weapons and ammunition visualization produced by Google as part of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/ideas\">Google Ideas<\/a>\u00a0INFO (Illicit Networks Forces in Opposition) Summit with support from the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/igarape.org.br%e2%80%8e\/\">Igarap\u00e9 Institute<\/a>.\u00a0 MAD features over 35 000 records of the exports and imports of small arms and ammunition from more than 262 states and territories between 1992 and 2011.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Small Arms Data Observatory (SADO) launched A new website launched by an international consortium of researchers which will focus upon quantitative data . 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