Publications
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Major Powers Fuelling Atrocities. Why the world needs a robust Arms Trade Treaty
- IPIS | March 15, 2013
IPIS contributed to the research for this AI report. Every year, thousands of people are killed, injured, raped and forced to flee from their homes as a result of abuses and atrocities committed with conventional arms and ammunition. Harrowing testimonies and images from conflict zones and human rights crises around the world underline the urgent need to end irresponsible arms transfers and illicit
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The Arms Trade Treaty: Building a Path to Disarmament
- Brian Wood, Ken Matthysen, Peter Danssaert, Sergio Finardi | March 9, 2013
The goal of this article is to examine and suggest proposals that could enhance the role of the international Arms Trade Treaty—presently in discussion at the United Nations—in the regulation of the international arms trade and in addressing the role of the legal trade in: a) providing the bulk of the arms used in armed conflicts, armed violence and human rights abuses; b) the excessive arming of
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Pinocchio Ltd. The NRA and its corporate partners: US shipments of small arms ammunition by sea
- Peter Danssaert, Sergio Finardi | March 5, 2013
The National Rifle Association (NRA) claims to have monitored in the last 20 years all United Nations activities that could impact Second Amendment rights. Its latest target is the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), an international treaty to establish common international standards for the import, export, and transfer of conventional arms presently under discussion at the United Nations. The international
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A Code of Conduct for Arms Transport by Air. Transport Services under an Arms Trade Treaty Series
- Brian Wood, Peter Danssaert, Sergio Finardi | August 12, 2012
This report is a discussion of some key considerations for the development of and “Air Cargo Industry Voluntary Code of Conduct relating to the transport of arms, ammunition and other military equipment” (ACI Code). The purpose of such a Code is to encourage as many aviation companies and other actors as possible in the air cargo industry to adhere to existing and new standards relating to the tr
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Rough Seas. Maritime Transport and Arms Shipments
- Peter Danssaert, Sergio Finardi | July 6, 2012
As stated by the authors in their report “Transparency and Accountability” (February 2012), the Chairman’s Draft Paper (14 July 2011) presented by the Arms Trade Treaty’s Preparatory Committee (ATT PrepCom) included within the ATT scope certain activities that should fall under the category of “services”, such as transport and brokering. However, no provision has been envisaged for the monitoring
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‘If you resist, we’ll shoot you’: The Democratic Republic of the Congo and the case for an effective Arms Trade Treaty
- Amnesty International, Peter Danssaert | June 7, 2012
IPIS contributed to the research for this AI report. In July 2012 UN Member States are to agree the final text of a comprehensive Arms Trade Treaty. The experience of arms proliferation and abuse in the Democratic Republic of the Congo should help to persuade States to establish strict rules consistent with States’ existing responsibilities under international law. This report focuses on several c
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Vlaams Wapenhandeldecreet: Analyse en aanbevelingen
- IPIS | March 9, 2012
In november 2011 werd in het Vlaams Parlement een ontwerp van decreet ingediend ter vervanging van de federale wet van 5 augustus 1991 over in-, uit- en doorvoer van militair materieel, dit als gevolg van de regionalisering van de bevoegdheid inzake wapenhandel en van de Europese ICT-richtlijn die in mei 2009 goedgekeurd werd door de Raad en het Europees Parlement. Amnesty International toetste di
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Study on the development of a framework for improving end-use and end-user control systems
- Brian Wood, Peter Danssaert | February 16, 2012
(UNODA Occasional Papers, No. 21, December 2011) Already, in 2002, the Security Council called upon States to establish an effective national end-user certificate system and to study the feasibility, as appropriate, of developing such a system at the regional and global levels, as well as information exchange and verification mechanisms. This study assesses existing practices regarding end-user ce
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Transparency and Accountability. Monitoring and Reporting Methods Under An Arms Trade Treaty
- Peter Danssaert, Sergio Finardi | February 8, 2012
Without an understanding of the existing practices of States regarding their commonly agreed standards for the monitoring and reporting of their international transfers of conventional arms, it will be very difficult to draft many of the basic provisions of the Treaty to ensure compliance and enforcement. This report therefore seeks to clarify and discuss existing terminology and reporting practic
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Arms Transfers to the Middle East and North Africa: Lessons for an effective arms trade treaty
- Amnesty International, Peter Danssaert | November 7, 2011
The numerous unlawful killings and other gross human rights abuses committed in response to the mass protests and demands for change that have gripped the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region since late 2010 underscore, both vividly and tragically, the urgent need for the establishment and implementation of an effective global Arms Trade Treaty (ATT). All across the region, government author
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“Véhicules civils militarisables” and the EU arms embargo on Sudan
- Benoit Muracciole, Brian Johnson-Thomas, Ken Matthysen, Peter Danssaert | September 13, 2011
The ongoing humanitarian crisis in Darfur has been overlooked recently because the international community has been focusing on the popular revolts in North Africa in the first half of the year and South Sudan’s peaceful referendum on secession from northern Sudan, and the subsequent violence in and over the contested Abyei region, In December 2010, however, fighting in Darfur resumed and has cont
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The Arms Flyers. Commercial Aviation, Human Rights, and the Business of War and Arms
- Peter Danssaert, Sergio Finardi | June 30, 2011
In the last decades, the “business of war” has attracted thousands of civilian transport and logistics companies, especially in the aviation sector. State and non-State actors engaged in armed conflicts or in military operations that require substantial logistic support have increasingly resorted to the services of civilian transport operators to fulfill their transport and logistics needs. For ai
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The Karamoja Cluster of eastern Africa: Arms transfers and their repercussions on communal security perceptions
- Brian Johnson-Thomas, Ken Matthysen, Peter Danssaert, Sergio Finardi | December 31, 2010
Nomadic peoples are often, if not universally, perceived as a problem by the governments of the nation states who have responsibility for them; this is particularly so in the case of the three nations with which this report is concerned, viz: Kenya, Uganda and (southern) Sudan. The pastoralist societies within the Karamajong cluster have been unable to adequately defend themselves politically agai
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Mapping the Labyrinth: more on the strange weapons flight of 4L-AWA
- Brian Johnson-Thomas, Peter Danssaert, Sergio Finardi | October 1, 2010
This research report is the third in a series about the case of a IL-76 aircraft used for an apparently clandestine arms flight in provenance from Pyongyang – in contravention of the United Nations arms embargo on North Korea -, which was impounded by Thai authorities during a technical stop in Bangkok December 12, 2009. Two previous research reports on this unusual case were published by IPIS and
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Deadly Movements. Transportation Controls in the Arms Trade Treaty
- Amnesty International, Peter Danssaert | July 1, 2010
Effective regulation of the global trade in conventional arms must include adequate provisions to control the physical movement of arms across international borders. The proposed Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) should be designed to prevent unauthorised or irresponsible international transfers of weapons, munitions and related equipment internationally: it must therefore require states to impose effective
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From deceit to discovery: The strange flight of 4L-AWA (update)
- Brian Johnson-Thomas, Peter Danssaert, Sergio Finardi | February 9, 2010
A joint IPIS/Transarms publication. Download in pdf or open with issuu reader. http://issuu.com/ipisresearch/docs/from_deceit_to_discovery-_the_stran_36e12e3d87b0d9
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Exceptions in dual-use export licenses
- Jan Cappelle | September 5, 2009
The European Commission (EC) presented in December 2008 a Proposal for a Council Regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 1334/2000 setting up a Community regime for the control of exports of dual-use items and technology. This proposal has been set up to achieve ‘uniform and consistent application of controls throughout the Community’, to ‘simplify the current legal system, to enhance the industry’
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Zimbabwe – Arms and Corruption: fuelling human rigths abuse
- Brian Johnson-Thomas, Peter Danssaert | July 17, 2009
The following examples of irresponsible arms transfers involving Zimbabwe and other actors should be of great concern to the international community. The examples cited below are intended to illustrate further the need to ensure that the proposed international Arms Trade Treaty is as comprehensive as possible, and fully reflects the obligations of States to prevent arms transfers which pose a subs
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Cieli Neri d’Africa
- Peter Danssaert, Sergio Finardi | June 23, 2009
Download in pdf or open with issuu reader. http://issuu.com/ipisresearch/docs/20090623_ilmanifesto
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Fuelling Conflict – Foreign Arms supplies to Israel/Gaza
- Amnesty International, Peter Danssaert | February 9, 2009
With fragile ceasefires now in place in Gaza and southern Israel, the full extent of the devastation caused in recent weeks is becoming increasingly clear. Amnesty International researchers visiting Gaza and southern Israel during and after the fighting found evidence of war crimes and other serious violations of international law by all parties to the conflict. Download in pdf or open with issuu