Ploughshares Monitor articles from September 2003

Ploughshares Monitor archives from September 2003

Small arms and security in Iraq.
September 22, 2003... The genesis for this article was an email message I sent to a number of contacts in the small arms community during the early stages of the recent war against Iraq. I outlined my concerns about the security issues related to the many small arms...

Positive steps at the Conference on Disarmament.
September 22, 2003... After nearly a decade of stalemate, in which the Conference on Disarmament (CD) was unable to agree on a program of work, recent announcements by Russia and China might indicate a break in the logjam of multilateral arms treaty negotiations....

Selected Canadian military export contracts reported during 2002.
September 22, 2003... Selected Canadian military export contracts reported during 2002 Overseas contracts during 2002 (non-US) Military product/ Supplier City/Province service...

Progress on the Nairobi declaration project.
September 22, 2003... The proliferation of small arms in the Horn and Great Lakes sub-regions of Africa is a problem of increasing magnitude. In March 2000, Burundi, Djibouti, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania, and...

Sudan: moving towards transtion.
September 22, 2003... Over the past year Project Ploughshares has been engaged in a CIDA-funded project with the Africa Peace Forum of Nairobi to engage Sudanese civil society in trying to think ahead to the successful conclusion of the current round of peace talks...

Going forward? The UN Biennial Meeting of Sates on Small Arms and the Programme of Action.
September 22, 2003... In July 2003, two years after the milestone United Nations Conference on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects, states gathered in New York for the Biennial Meeting of States (BMS). An element of the follow-up...

Rio's "Flame of Peace".
September 22, 2003... In July 2003, the State Government of Rio, Brazil, in partnership with the. NGO Viva Rio, organized the public destruction of 4,158 firearms. These weapons had been seized from criminals by the Rio police, and were crushed with a steam roller....

Canadian Forces international operations as of 17 September 2003.
September 22, 2003... Canadian Forces international operations as of 17 September 2003 Mission Number of personnel Arabian Gulf Region & Southwest Asia Operation Apollo ...

Our 2003-2004 Young Professionals International participants.
September 22, 2003... This year Ploughshares received funding for 11 positions under the Government of Canada's Young Professionals International program, coordinated by the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. These beginning professionals are now...