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3 See, for example, Atwood, David and David Jackman (2000), ‘Working where it hurts: Perspectives
from the field on small arms demand’, Disarmament Forum, No. 2, pages 13-24; and Buchanan,
Cate and David Atwood (2003), Curbing the Demand for Small Arms: Focus on Southeast Asia,
Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue and QUNO, Geneva. The results of other QUNO regional and
thematic workshops that have taken place since 1999 can be found at: www.quno.org
4 See Regehr, Ernie (2004), Reducing the Demand for Small Arms and Light Weapons: Priorities for
the International Community, Working Paper No. 04-2, Project Ploughshares, Canada, p. 9
5 OECD DAC (2005), Conflict Prevention and Peace Building: What Counts as ODA?, High Level
Forum Document, 3 March. Available at: www.oecd.org/dataoecd/32/32/34535173.pdf
6 UNGA Resolution A/RES/60/68 of 8 December 2005
7 See WHO (2002), World Report on Violence and Health, pp. 38–47
8 See, for example, Alpers, Philip and Robert Muggah (2004), Surveying Small Arms Availability,
Distribution, Demand and Effects in the Southern Highlands, Briefing, Small Arms Survey, Geneva
9 Dinnen, Sinclair and Edwina Thompson (2004), Gender and Small Arms Violence in Papua New
Guinea, Paper commissioned by UNIFEM. Available at: www.eprints.anu.edu.au/archive/00002984/.
See also, LeBrun, Emile and Muggah, Robert (eds), Silencing Guns: Local Perspectives on Small
Arms and Armed Violence in Rural Pacific Islands Communities, Occasional Paper 15, Small Arms
Survey, Geneva. Available at: www.smallarmssurvey.org
10 That said, infrastructure promised by the then administrator has failed to materialise, and this
is an ongoing source of discontent. Several districts within the Southern Highlands are now
declared fighting zones, and the province has been under a state of emergency since 1 August
2006. Email from Nicole Haley, Australian National University, 26 February 2007.
11 See, for example, Kirsten, Adele et al. (2004), Islands of Safety in a Sea of Guns: Gun Free Zones
in Fothane, Diepkloof and Khayelitsha: Evaluating the Impact of Gun Free Zones, Special Report,
Small Arms Survey, Geneva
12 Though 27 schools eventually adopted FFZ policies, none has been officially declared an FFZ
by the Ministry of Safety and Security.
13 Youth homicide had increased 230 per cent, from 22 victims in 1987 to 73 victims in 1990, while
averaging some 44 youth homicides per year between 1991 and 1995. Reed, Winifred and Scott
Decker (eds.) (2002), Responding to Gangs: Evaluation and Research, National Institute of Justice,
Washington, DC, p. 269. Available at: www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/nij/190351.pdf
14 The project formed a working group comprised of diverse stakeholders, including the Boston
Police Department; the Massachusetts Departments of Probation and Parole; the office of the
Suffolk County District Attorney; the office of the US Attorney; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,
and Firearms; the Massachusetts Department of Youth Services; Boston School Police; and gang
outreach and prevention ‘street-workers’ attached to the Boston Community Centre’s programme.
Regular partners later in the process included the Ten Point Coalition of Black Clergy, the Drug
Enforcement Administration, the Massachusetts State Police, and the office of the Massachusetts
Attorney-General.
15 A comparative analysis of youth homicide trends in Boston relative to youth homicide trends in
other major US and New England cities also supports a unique programme effect associated with
the Ceasefire intervention. See Braga, Anthony et al. (2001), ‘Problem-oriented policing, deterrence,
and youth violence: An evaluation of Boston’s Operation Ceasefire’, Journal of Research in
Crime and Delinquency, Vol. 38, Issue 3
16 See www.whiteribbon.ca
17 See Jackman, David (2004), Conflict Resolution and Lessening the Demand for Small Arms, Summary
Report, QUNO, Geneva
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